Skip to main content

Kōrero: Dancing

Celebrating with dance

Image
Celebrating with dance

A celebration of Indian Independence Day in 2005 brought these five young Aucklanders into the spotlight. India has a particularly rich dance tradition, which includes several forms of classical dance as well as folk forms. The variation in the stance of the youngsters shown here suggests that public performance was not something they did regularly.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

New Zealand Herald

Reference: 140805NZHMSINDIANS.JPG

by Martin Sykes

Permission of the New Zealand Herald must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Megan Cook, Dancing – Jazz to rock ’n’ roll, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/40969/celebrating-with-dance (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 27 February 2013.