Matariki/Pleiades

Matariki/Pleiades

In this our 25th anniversary year, we staged our show MATARIKI/PLEIADES at the Memorial Theatre in Wellington. All four Crows Feet groups participated in the performance. And now to mark our twenty-five years we are planning a documentary which will be made by...
Dancing with Michael Joseph Savage

Dancing with Michael Joseph Savage

By Renee I read somewhere that Michael Joseph Savage liked dancing and it is my conviction that this liking for dance influenced some branches of the LP to hold Learner’s Dances in the 1940s. I’ve written about them in my memoir but today I’m  thinking about the...
Won’t You Join the Dance?

Won’t You Join the Dance?

My introduction to dance was in the form of ballet lessons. Like all hopeful mothers, mine wanted to give me the opportunity to develop into a ballerina. I think I was quick to disabuse her of that idea. What I remember most clearly is a cold studio and an elderly...