Mrs Rae Storey, of Auckland, QSM for services to folk dancing and the arts
Rae Storey founded the children’s Meadowbank Maypole Dancers, and her efforts have seen the team take part in many cultural events in Auckland. She also founded La Bourrée, a women’s ensemble that performs French regional dances, has taught international folk dance in schools, and has held two large annual festivals. Mrs Storey produced and published a teaching resource for dancing, which she recently broadened to better serve multicultural life in New Zealand’s schools. At a national level, she gathered New Zealand’s folk dance teachers together for a training course and to establish the organisation Folk Dance New Zealand.