Teambuilding Haka Tribal Dance

Teambuilding - Haka

This Haka traditional and ancient Maori Tribal dance acts as a perfect team building activity, or workshop. It brings people together and gives them a shared experience.

Your delegates enter the room, and all seems well. The doors shut behind the last guests, and the world music that has been playing as they enter, is increased in volume; signifying the start.

Suddenly….silence. Then the Roar of 'the call' … the loud and exciting tribal call of the lead tribesman.

He then performs the 'HAKA' to the delight (and surprise) of your guests. Within moments of finishing, we welcome everyone, and take them on a whirlwind workshop where they will learn and perform the HAKA as one unified team. Delegates will also be set the task of designing their own tribal markings.

You will feel the power

Building towards a powerful finale performance, each team will go head to head in a bit of healthy tribal competition and have the opportunity to have their tribal markings painted for the full effect. Then the battle for tribal supremacy is won as we come together as one tribe for the ultimate Haka.

"The Haka is a composition played by many instruments. Hands, feet, legs, body, voice, tongue, and eyes all play their part in blending together to convey in their fullness the challenge, welcome, exultation, defiance or contempt of the words."

It is disciplined, yet emotional. More than any other aspect of Maori culture, this complex dance is an expression of the passion, vigor and identity of the team. It is at it's best, truly, a message of the soul expressed by words and posture.

We would recommend an approximate running time of 45-90minutes; dependent upon group size.

Requirements

Please note that with this event we try to get the group in teams so that they can come up with their own Haka. For this we may require 3 rooms which can hold up to 30 people in comfortably where they can practice. The main room will be used for the groups to get an overall briefing and tuition on the original Haka and then do the performances of their version back.