Rae Storey

Hi! I'm Rae Storey of Auckland, New Zealand.

I'm a fulltime folk dance worker: teacher, teacher-trainer, publisher. 

My weekly programme includes three adult recreational IFD classes, and a morning with La Bourrée, a merry all-women ensemble. Sometimes we are rehearsing French regional dances for performance; mostly we are in school halls romping with a hundred or more children through dances from IFD collections which I publish (New Wave Folkdancing - books, videos, music on CD and tape). 

Each year we hold a dance carnival for around 1600 children and their teachers (in two sessions). 

By invitation I train school and pre-school teachers throughout the country in the New Wave popular repertoire and state-of-the-art teaching methods. 

My approach:  I use a range of useful teaching methods, but basically the lively New Wave philosophy of learning with the music, learning by doing, building the dance. The music and the dance must appeal to the dancers, or we leave it.  It must become "theirs". We are folk, enjoying heritage, treasures, connexions, and often exultant human expression. The focus is on rich active fun, and sharing together in it.

I also have two performance ensembles: a children's maypole dancing team and La Bourrée French Regional Dancers. 

Other involvements: the Ruritanian IFD Club, the fledgling organization Folk Dance New Zealand and the promotion of adult folk dancing nationwide. 

• For more information about New Wave Folkdancing click here.
• For more information about folkdancing click here or go to Kieron's FDNZ Directory. 

CONTACT:
Rae Storey
24a Dell Ave, Remuera, Auckland 1005
Ph: (64-9) 524-9504
Fax: (64-9) 522-9154
email: rstorey@ihug.co.nz

Kieron Horide-Hobley

Last updated: 23rd October 2002