Wakakirri
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Wakakirri is an Australian national dance festival for schools that has been running since 1992. Wakakirri is a word from the Aboriginal Wangaaypuwan people meaning "to dance".
[edit] Format
The Wakakirri National Story Festival is a collection of six story based performing and creative arts competitions for all Australian schools. Primary and secondary schools come together to share stories through performance or creative arts.
Both primary and secondary schools are invited to create stories and present and share their works at Wakakirri Festivals held around Australia in front of live audiences, online and through an annual TV show on Network TEN. The 2007 series will air on Network TEN on Saturday December 1st at 2.30pm. It's free to enter for all schools and has an emphasises on creativity and participation rather than big-budget productions. Former years have seen over 30,000 students from 500+ schools.
The vision of the Wakakirri National Story Festival is to encourage young Australians to be open minded, confident and active through the process of creating, sharing and appreciate stories.
[edit] The six competitions
- STORY-DANCE The original story event, first held in 1992. A Story-Dance is a story told on stage in 3-7 minutes using a blend of dance and acting to pre-recorded music or live vocals.
- STORY-TELLING Telling a story on stage in the traditional verbal storytelling fashion.
- STORY-SINGING Singing an original song that tells a story to acoustic or pre-recorded music.
- STORY-WRITING Writing an original story.
- STORY-BOARDING Using cartoons or comic book style storyboards to tell and illustrate a story.
- STORY-FILM Students film, star in, edit and present any story using any film style (animation, doco, music clip, drama…) in under five minutes.
