* Proudly brought to you by... Tonight on Sunday ` the doping scandal in Kiwi sport. We are the first to yell, 'Hey, cheat!' Drugs in sport. Do you accept that you were cheating? Yeah. 100%. Is your child breaking the rules? He doesn't deserve to be labelled the way he's now been labelled. That's just wrong. My life felt so out of control. Like, I'm surprised that it didn't kill me. And getting back on the board. I wasn't expecting to get a Commonwealth athlete handed to me on a plate. One athlete's incredible fight for a second chance. Plus ` a world first on the Antarctic ice. She looks like James Bond mixed with Angelina Jolie. I'm creating the first dance in Antarctica that's ever happened. This untouched space that is just... magnificent. And the maths teacher who became an unlikely star. www.able.co.nz Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. Copyright Able 2018 Kia ora, I'm Miriama Kamo. Do you watch your kids playing sports on the weekend? Do you know if they take performance-enhancing drugs? Chances are, they don't know it either. But they're subject to the same rules as famous cheats like Lance Armstrong and Maria Sharapova. And the fallout can be devastating. Tonight we reveal how banned drugs are taking hold in heartland Kiwi sport. Jehan Casinader investigates. (TENSE MUSIC) A cheat in sport is somebody who breaks the rules intentionally. There are some who go out to get as close to the edge of the rules as possible. Do you wanna grow up being recognised when you walk down the street as that guy who cheated? Cos that's what happens when you cheat. 'Cheat' is a word Rhys Pedersen struggles to accept. I definitely felt like my life's never gonna be the same. My rugby reputation is gonna just be torn to shreds. I just wanted to be happy and wanted to fix my life, and it's come back to haunt me, I guess. (SOMBRE MUSIC) Why has rugby been such a big part of your life? Just everything about it ` the camaraderie, the friends you make, the people you meet. From 5 years old, running around in bare feet on a frosty morning to Senior A club rugby. I definitely knew I had something that could lead me into some pretty big places if i put my mind to it and worked hard enough. But in his late teens ` (PEOPLE EXCLAIM, WHISTLE BLOWS) some nasty head knocks. That sorta sent me into a deep depression. I was in a pretty bad way; I was out of shape. I didn't really feel good about how I looked. I didn't want to take my shirt off. I was scrolling through Facebook one day and saw an ad for a product that would help you lose weight. I just wanted to look good to feel good, so I clicked on the ad. It took him to a Kiwi website selling a mouth spray called Clenbuterol. Had you ever heard of this drug before? No. No. Did you Wikipedia it or Google it? Nah. The drug was designed for horses, not humans. But Rhys was clueless and desperate. I was at rock bottom trying to claw my way out, and I thought a self esteem pickup, you know, a confidence boost, would be the way to do that. Little did he know, he'd entered the murky world of doping. This is not just a sport issue. This is actually bigger than sport. David Howman, the former head of World Anti-Doping Agency. New Zealand is one of the easy stopover points for people who want to transport doping substances. The website Rhys bought Clenbuterol from was run by a Christchurch man, Joshua Townshend. He was illegally importing performance-enhancing drugs. They're made in huge factories where there's no sanitation. It's all about getting the stuff out as quickly as possible, making money. And there's a heck of a lot to be made. For a hundred dollars, you can probably make 10,000. In just one year, Townshend sold more than 4000 units of banned drugs ` making a profit of around 300,000. You can get away with it because there's not much scrutiny, and it just goes on and on. Drug dealers often target young athletes, who are keen to improve their performance or their looks. You know, for 10 bucks, you get a couple of pills and makes you feel good or makes you look better ` you got better abs ` whatever it is you were doing it for. Who do you think's gonna be looking at that? Nobody. And, alas, you were wrong. COMMENTATOR: And the Hankin Shield final is on. Three years after Rhys bought Clenbuterol, he'd recovered from his concussions and was back on the field in Palmerston North. Captain Pedersen puts his boot to ball. I was enjoying rugby; I was in good form. You know, I was the captain of the winning club. Here is the best and fairest trophy that Rhys won last year. His coach is full of praise. Rhys is well respected not only in the club but within the rugby community. He just leads by example, hence the reason why I made him captain. Never had so much fun, never played this good before in my life. Then came a phone call that flipped his world upside down. I could just feel my heart racing faster and faster. Once I got off the phone, I sorta burst out into tears. Joshua Townshend's drug ring had been busted. Police found a laptop with emails showing he'd sold banned drugs to Rhys and around 100 other Kiwi athletes. We've not aware of other countries who have come up with such a number of athletes in one place at one time ever before. So this is unprecedented? It is. Nick Paterson, the head of Drug Free Sport. All sports people in New Zealand are caught by the anti-doping rules. Whether you're an All Black, whether you're an elite athlete, or whether you're playing club footy on a Saturday afternoon, you're all subject to the anti-doping rules. Those rules, from the world anti-doping code, prohibit athletes from not just using drugs, but even having them in their possession. We're no longer catching people only by drugs tests. We're catching them by intelligence. The Townshend investigation caught athletes across a range of sports who'd bought drugs from the same website as Rhys. Among them, international ice hockey player, Mitchell Frear. Former Black Fern, Zoey Berry. And ex-All Black Sevens player, Glen Robertson. None of them had ever had a positive test. And they were caught solely by the emails they were sending and the website traffic that we saw. Rhys says he took Clenbuterol for less than a week, only to improve his body image. I'm definitely not a drug cheat. My decision to take it had nothing to do with rugby. Rhys is not the type of person who'd taken this drug to become a better player. You don't believe he was taking it to enhance his performance? No. Definitely not. No. An independent tribunal accepted that, but it still banned him from all competitive sport for almost two years. When it all came out, there was a picture of me in a Manawatu jersey plastered over the papers. I showed up to work the day after it dropped in the media and a young kid yelled out, 'Here he is, the doper.' He doesn't deserve to be labelled the way he's now been labelled. That's just wrong. Rob Nichol, head of the Rugby Players' Association. The WADA code is designed to catch international elite athletes who dope and countries who systematically set up regimes to cheat. It's not really designed to deal with school kids or to deal with amateur and community athletes. Unlike elite athletes, Rhys had no education about doping. All his behaviours were consistent with someone who was just trying to work his way through a mental health issue. There's a complete acknowledgement of that. And then they banned him. We just think it's unjust. Completely unjust. Drug Free Sport says the rules are black and white. There might be some sympathy for an athlete who's made a genuinely bad decision based on a lack of knowledge. But if we were able to give them a free pass, then what would be to stop another country who've got lower ethics and morals than New Zealanders, giving a free pass to their athletes? So we have a consistent approach. Action will be taken. No discretion. No free passes. A year ago, Rhys led his team to victory. Let's change places. Now he's not even allowed to train with them until next season. It's gonna be tough watching from the sideline, but I did the crime, so I'll do the time. While Rhys made a mistake, officials fear that others are doping deliberately. What does your gut tell you? My gut tells me there's probably other websites out there. There'll be other athletes out there, in similar sort of numbers, who may well have made the same bad decisions as these guys. That means the problem is bigger than we're currently seeing, but we don't know the full extent of it. Has this been a wake up call? It absolutely has. Up next ` Do you accept that you were cheating? Yeah, 100%. Are young athletes under too much pressure? We run the risk of some of them becoming very unwell, and, yes, some could even die. * Like so many country kids, Andrew Burne dreamed of being an All Black. This is the field where you grew up playing rugby? Yeah. Over there, I remember ducking the ball a few times because I was a bit scared as a young fulla. I used to be very open. I used to be pretty happy-go-lucky as well, and it's hard to be happy-go-lucky sometimes now. He's been banned from the sport he loves. Do you accept that you were cheating? Yeah, 100%. Yeah. But I never thought about that at the time. Never thought that word once at the time. You never saw yourself as a cheat? Nah. In his teens, Andrew played club rugby in Wellington. But to reach Super Rugby level, he knew he had to beef up. I was eating right, I was training two times a day, three times a day, and I wouldn't put any weight on. So I was trying other supplements, the ones you buy from the shop, and that wasn't working. So I thought, well, the only other thing to do is go down the route of using performance-enhancing drugs. At 19, he began injecting himself with testosterone. and giving it to five of his mates. We wanted to get better and bigger and faster and stronger. Did it feel like a risky decision? Yeah, massively risky. It's sticking a needle into you, you know? So it's, like, not exactly something you think about doing every day. Yes, it's cheating. Yes, it's doing the wrong thing. But mostly, as a doctor, what worries me is how dangerous it is. Deb Robinson, one of the country's top sports' doctors. Daniel suffered an injury yesterday at captain's run. That's gonna rule him out of the tournament. For years, she looked after our rugby heroes. Some young athletes may be so determined to have a professional career that they really will do anything that it takes to achieve that. If we have teenagers who have access to anabolic steroids, often they'll stress themselves more than what their body can cope with, so that can also give you an increased risk of stroke and heart attack. Overseas, dozens of wannabe sports' stars have died, after taking drugs they bought online. We can see people having episodes of depression, increased aggression and even suicidal tendencies. Deb says we can no longer ignore the evidence of drug use here at club level. This is a deep-seated issue and probably more widespread than any of us actually thought. Andrew was caught buying, using and trafficking steroids and banned from sport for six years. I felt like I failed a lot of people, particularly my family. And the code ` rugby. Like, I felt like I'd failed New Zealand rugby as well. So how tough is it, then, not being able to play? It's like losing a best mate. They're not there anymore. You can't go and talk to them. You can't see them. So it's like losing someone very close to you. Just take this netting off the strawberries. Despite the support of his family, Andrew was eaten up by his guilt. At your lowest point, how did you feel? Like I wanted to die. Like I didn't want to wake up in the morning. I couldn't really see the point in going on anymore. I think if we had somebody die... We do react, but I wouldn't want it to come to that. David Howman has watched doping destroy the lives of many promising athletes. The World Anti-Doping Agency director, General David Howman... In his 13 years at WADA, he exposed some of the world's most high-profile cheats. We had a huge hit on Lance Armstrong. That made the world wake up a lot. Did you ever take banned substances in order to enhance your cycling performance? Yes. He was an out-and-out liar and an out-and-out bully. There were a number of people who suggested we were doing the wrong thing. We should look the other way. But you didn't blink? You can't. We had the same situation with Russia. We could have walked away from that. We couldn't. David says our country isn't immune to doping, especially at grassroots level, where banned drugs are becoming more accessible. But if you see a train coming and it's going to be a train wreck, you actually want to disrupt it ` you don't want to wait for the wreck. The way to do that ` education, especially among teenagers. Some get contracts from agents when they're 14, 15. Some of them will say to the kids, 'Take this, cos you need to put on 10kgs over the summer.' And they won't say 'Oh, is this on the world anti-doping prohibited list?' No, course not. They will say, 'This could get me a contract. I'll take it.' Some of these doping substances stay in the body for four, five years. So you can get an advantage from some for that period of time. Last year, for the first time, Drug Free Sport tested schoolboys at a first XV tournament. Just do it over the mat in case you spill any. Critics said it was intrusive and unnecessary. Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a world where you didn't need to test at schoolboy level, where schoolboys could be left to be schoolboys. But I don't think we live in that world anymore. They do deserve to be tested, and they do deserve to be aware of what the situation is so that they don't test positive. The risk of accidental doping is higher for those who take supplements, Like the first XV at Palmerston North Boys' High. How many of you take one or more supplements every week? One or more? While most supplements are clean, some are laced with banned drugs. The idea of getting your parents to go into the supermarket or go into the health shop each week and spend a shit load of money on supplements just because that's what the guy next to you is doing, and you think you're gonna miss out because you're not taking it ` you don't need to do that. There's plenty of other ways to get the nutrients that you need into your body. The athletes that get to the top ` the ones that really perform, that have respect, do it through hard work. And that's ultimately what it's about. Andrew wants to prove that's he's learnt his lesson. Are you a different man now? Yeah, massively different man. The game-changer was the birth of his first child, Alby. He's everything to me, my little boy. I just hope that when he's a bit older, that whatever he wants to do, whether it's play rugby or golf or soccer or paint, he does it right and doesn't do the things I did. The biggest asset in fighting and keeping the sport clean are the athletes themselves. And if you really engage with them and you show some empathy for those that get caught in a breach, they in turn will take a much more proactive approach in policing the environment themselves. Morning, lads. (BOYS GREET) How are we doing? BOYS: Good. My name is Rhys Pedersen. Some of you might have seen my face plastered on the front of the Manawatu Standard not long ago. I've made a pretty big mistake and it's time to move forward and try and help people not make the same mistake as i did. To have someone who's actually been through it and someone from our community puts it into a lot bigger perspective so we can pass it on to our school and rest of our players and stuff like that too. When you're thinking about supplements, just think about what are the risks of taking it. You don't wanna be that guy who could be on the brink of making it and then something like this drags you down. I still have my tough days, but I've come a long way, and I don't intend on going back. Rhys is backing the work of Drug Free Sport. They definitely aren't there to celebrate catching cheats. They just want what's best for the players, what's best for the game. When his ban is over, he'll be back in that jersey. Looking at this photo brings me so much happiness. I have a lot of good memories in rugby, and I'm sure there's many more to come when I return. Oh, good luck to him. The world anti-doping code is up for review, and New Zealand will propose changes allowing more flexibility when dealing with lower-level athletes. But what do you think? Should there be one rule for all? Tell us on our Facebook page, Sunday TVNZ. Well, up later, the visionary dancer making a film on the vast ice of Antarctica. But next, a Kiwi diving star's incredible comeback and the dark secret that nearly killed her. The level of shame was so great, I didn't want anyone to know what I was doing. Did you think you came close to dying? I think I did. I think there were many times that I did. Life can... be awesome. Hello again. 14 years ago, diver Shaye Boddington quit our Olympic team. She was hiding a terrible secret. But now, she's back and about to go to the Commonwealth Games. What was going on that saw her walk away from her dream, and how did she conquer it? Here's Tania Page with Shaye Boddington's extraordinary comeback. You can't understand how you can be any other way. And that's terrifying. You just feel like your heart beating faster. It gets in your head and then it's just a blur. And it's like you get taken over by somebody else's brain. I'm certain there were many times that I was just on the edge of that balance, going over the edge. I know, I felt. Looking at champion diver Shaye Boddington today, it's hard to believe her troubled past. She's relaxed, confident and happy. It's that feeling of just using your body, and, like, a mixture of power and grace. It's such a sport with so many different components to it, and I love that complexity to it. And she's got a ticket to next month's Commonwealth Games. We have five divers from New Zealand going, which is the biggest team we've ever sent to any big international meet like this. It's just so cool. So nice to go as such a proud Kiwi. But she wasn't always so at home in her own skin. Nor here. What a slip of a little girl. As a young girl growing up in Zimbabwe, everyone noticed Shaye Boddington's diving. She's just won all the national championships in Zimbabwe. By age 12, she'd already broken national records. But her star was rising just as the country was crumbling. The whole country crashed. Everything went bad. They started taking farms away and... there were bad things that were happening. Shaye's mum, Sheila, packed up their lives into five suitcases and the family fled to New Zealand. A fresh start. It wasn't long before Shaye made our national dive team, but her outward success hid an inner anguish. You know when you live with someone for a long time, you get used to them being thin. You don't really notice how thin they are. My life felt so out of control, I guess that was something else that I could focus on, was changing myself. And the more that I focused on what I wanted to change, the more I focused on the things I didn't like about myself, the more I started to hate myself. Bulimics feel so much shame about what they do because it's so unglamorous. You know, you feel there's nothing glamorous about shoving food down your face and making yourself sick. If you were home and the house was empty, you had the place to yourself, you didn't have to hide your bulimia, what did you do? I'd be straight into the pantry. First thing I'd go for would probably be, like, cereal. I'd probably have a bottle of milk in one hand. I wouldn't even bother with a plate. Cans of spaghetti... Like, anything. I'd think, like, what was easiest to throw up, what was gonna hurt the least. When my tummy would get too full, I would just, like, head straight to the InSinkErator and throw up and then I would start again. How long could you keep that up for? 10, 20 minutes? Oh, no, like a couple of hours. Really? Yeah. I'd just keep going. How were you able to hide it? (SIGS) I would take my mum's EFTPOS card and buy food and replace it. And so, basically, I stole money from my parents, which was terrible. But, you know, that was, like` the level of shame was so great, I didn't want anyone to know what I was doing. Shaye's bulimia started when she was only 8 years old. And she wasn't the only one. I do not remember a single woman growing up who did not hate their bodies. My cousin was anorexic. My friend had two daughters who were anorexic. It just seemed to be a thing that was quite prevalent at that time. I remember just feeling like I was the most disgusting person on this planet. And I would stand in the mirror and suck my tummy in, and if I couldn't get it, like, this narrow, then would just keep trying to throw up more and more until I could just... until I just felt completely empty. But she kept training, kept competing, kept winning. How I managed, I have no idea. I'm surprised that it didn't kill me. Did you think you came close to dying? I think I did. I think there were many times that I did. So Shaye did the unthinkable. 17 years old and just three months out from the Athens Olympics, she quit diving. People must have thought you were mad? Yeah, they did. (LAUGHS) I mean everyone knew that I had issues with eating, because I was really skinny. But no one knew the extent. Something in my life had to change. Hey, guys. So I'm sorry that it's been a while since I've done a video blog, and that's because there's been a lot going on in my life. Away from the pool, Shaye began counselling and developed her own bulimia recovery programme. It feels much more manageable... Her online video diaries, coupled with expert advice, found a big audience. I remember thinking when I recover, if I can recover, I'll make sure that I share my story and do it as honestly as I can, so that people know that they're not alone and that there's other people going through it. Shaye's website now gets thousands of new hits a week. I've seen hundreds of women recover to the same point that I have, you know, that bulimia is a non-issue for them any more. I know for me, there's never a chance that I'm gonna go there again. (TRUCK BEEPS) And she wasn't just rebuilding herself. I build tiny houses, these things. Shaye discovered design and started a business. It's just, like, a lower-impact lifestyle. Consuming less and living more, really. That's very much in tune with her philosophy of living life to the fullest. It feels almost like I've had two lives. They were just so different and so separate, that, um, it's like it was that life, and now it's this life. She also became a mum... Mama! Hello. ...to Hazel. I just want to teach her and show her that life can... be awesome. She was the pint-sized inspiration to head back to the pool after a 13-year absence. I thought she'll never know one day when she gets older that Mummy used to do tricks. She'll just know that... I will. But now you will, won't you? Cos you've seen me now. So, yeah, I went down to the pools just to muck around and see if I could get something on video. I didn't think I'd be able to do much after 13 years. But then, managed to do a whole lot. No, no! Completely by chance, national dive coach Steve Gladding was poolside,... This is the little change we've been looking for. ...reigniting her competitive diving dreams. When you first spotted her in the pool after 13 years away, what'd you think? Amazing. The power output that she has as an individual is phenomenal. She was diving over the other side, and I invited her over and said, 'Why don't you do a little bit of training with us?' And the rest is history. One year after stepping onto a diving board again, Shaye was selected for the Commonwealth Games. A second chance. I wasn't expecting to have a Commonwealth athlete handed to me on a plate, but... (LAUGHS) Congratulations. Thank you very much. (LAUGHS) Is that normal for someone to take 13 years off and come back and actually be better? Absolutely not. Is that normal? No, it really isn't. It really isn't. I think that's why we're all so amazed by the story. Yeah, I had 13 years off, but I did a lot of life in that time, and I learnt a lot. HAZEL: Mummy, Mummy. And there's more to do now than ever ` mummy duties, designing tiny houses and dive training. Every day is crammed. I've an amazing, amazing Mum and Dad who help me so much. Hi, Mum! Are you proud of her? Oh, hugely. Hugely proud of her. All of us are. (LAUGHS) We didn't think that she'd get back to Commonwealth Games. Shaye's determined to impress. She's taking every opportunity to perfect her dives in competition before the big one. It's all about her being able to roll out exactly what we're looking for at the games. When we know we've got that on to our belt, we know we're in a good place going into the Gold Coast. Both say if she can harness her nerves, the results will come. To many, she's already made it. The experiences I've had in my life bring a joyfulness to my diving but also to everything that I do. Focus now for me isn't on beating yourself up to succeed ` it's about joyfully experiencing things. When you can do that, you're gonna succeed. And you can catch Shaye in action at the Commonwealth Games right here in TVNZ. She's competing on April 13 and we wish her and all of our athletes the best of luck. Now, if Shaye's story has raised issues for you, or for more information about eating disorders, go to our Facebook page, Sunday TVNZ. Well, next, the Kiwi choreographer who lives, breathes and loves dance. I'm creating the first dance in Antarctica that's ever happened. Standing out and seeing this untouched space that is just... magnificent. (CLASSICAL MUSIC) It's a stage unlike anything you've ever seen. Think dance, think ice, think outrageously stunning. It's the brain child of Kiwi Corey Baker ` a choreographer about to make the first ever dance film in Antarctica. But why? And could it help save the planet? Meet Corey Baker on, perhaps, the world's most beautiful stage. Here's John Hudson. Hello. Corey. Nice to meet you. John Hudson. Nice to meet you. How are you doing? Nice to meet you. You're the man who's gonna teach us how to glissade down the glaciers. That's it. Corey Baker is making history. It's just so special and beautiful. It's almost like utopia. A dance movie on ice. Everybody dances. Even me. We are going to start at the barre today. It's show time. Let's take a moment. (PSY'S 'GANGNAM STYLE') # Gangnam style. # Yes! Everybody can sing. # In the most delightful way. # And that playful cheekiness... (LAUGHTER) ...is infectious. Yay! # ...beneath my feet before. # But he does he have a serious side. If there is a drone shot... He's a 28-year-old choreographer... Are you rolling? Yeah. ...on a mission to save the planet with dance. (GENTLE MUSIC) Corey, this is where it all began. This is where it all began, right over there behind those trees, in fact. It's where I saw Sinbad. And mum took me, and I loved it so much. As a small boy, Corey saw the Christchurch show seven times. And I just remember from that point going, 'This is incredible. This is me. This is what I want to do.' It just blew his mind. He just was... wow. Spellbound. Dawn? Yep. Has he always been this helpful around the house? Dawn is Corey's mum. Truth or lie? (BOTH LAUGH) Going to shut the door because his room ` that has nothing to do with me. And despite his room, she's his biggest fan. Let's have a look at Corey when he was little. Sure. OK. I've got lots. So, he was so cute. He was cute. Yes. Look at that. Not sure what's happened now. I think he's still cute. (LAUGHTER) An only child with an active imagination. So, Dawn, this is the stage door. Yes, welcome... to the 'Corey's Theatre'. Dawn encouraged his garage theatre. Here, Corey did magic tricks and produced plays for the neighbours. And ballet shoes? Yes, here's his ballet shoes. As a teenager, Corey discovered dance. Oh, he's worn them out. Oh, absolutely. Look at that. The toes have gone. (BOTH LAUGH) The ballet barre ` Mum's old broomstick. There's a lot of grande battements done here, I can tell. Yes. This is what happens when you become a star mum. Corey knows he's owes his mum big time. (LAUGHTER) There's a special bond between this mother and son, which made what came next even harder. He says, 'Oh, Mum, I've been accepted into a ballet academy in Sydney, 'and I'm leaving in a couple of weeks.' We couldn't afford that to happen, so together wrote letters and started fundraising, and we managed to do it. But the day that I actually departed was the most difficult thing I've ever done. My mum and some family were there, and, you know, I've seen my mum cry before, but never like this. I had one ticket to get to Sydney, and we didn't know what was gonna happen next, and I remember getting on that plane and feeling, yeah, terribly alone, actually. Within a year, he'd been spotted by ballet scouts from Switzerland. I get a call and say, 'Mum, I've been accepted into Basel, and I'm not coming back.' So he left as a 16 and a half year old boy, and the next time I saw him was the 21-year-old man. In those 5 years, Corey danced his way across Europe. We were dancing in these amazing opera houses, 2500 seats every night with some incredible world-class choreographers. Didn't really connect with me, I guess. And eventually ballet, quite literally, became a pain. I had to take codeine three times a day when I was living in Switzerland, just to be able to walk home after rehearsals. I had to have an operation in Switzerland, and it took me about... about four to six months to fully recover from that. There was a point where I had to make the decision to go, 'I'm going to stop dancing, and I'm going to stop caring 'that I'm not a dancer anymore and be a choreographer.' (ELECTRONIC MUSIC) Living in the UK, Corey set up his own company and took dance to the streets. (BUZZING) Dance is a language that everyone can speak. You and I have been dancing during this whole interview. You've been talking to me like this, I've been talking back. We've been moving. Everybody dances. Now choreography is his passion. Dance can connect with people in a stronger way sometimes than words can. We're all blessed with these bodies ` no matter what the shape, size, the ability ` we all have these bodies. And these bodies move, and for me, dance is celebration of, I guess, the human body. And that celebration is headed for the ice. (MAJESTIC MUSIC) I'm creating the first dance in Antarctica that's ever happened, and maybe use that as a bridge to inform people about the current predicament with climate change. He's a choreographer getting political. This planet will change. It will mould its way out, but we'll just be kicked off it. And that is a very real concern, and a concern that I want to address through the art form that I believe very passionately about. Getting to Antarctica isn't always easy. I went straight to Antarctica New Zealand and approached them first, and they were wonderful. They were like, 'This sounds bonkers, but let's do it.' But there's no doing it without a dancer. (CLASSICAL MUSIC) Enter stage left. Do you want to show me what you've got? Royal New Zealand ballerina Madeleine Graham. She's an exquisite mover, which I thought was really fascinating and would stand out amongst these epic and picturesque icebergs. And all captured on camera for Corey's epic dance film. OK, all the very best. Love you. I love you too. The US air force have flown artists to Antarctica before. But this is their very first Sugar Plum Fairy. (TINKLING MUSIC) Ahh! (UPBEAT MUSIC) What the f...? Oh my God. Where the heck are we? Wow. Antarctica. Same planet ` just different. I actually got shivers all over my body. How is this so gorgeous? Thousands and thousands of years of evolution, of melting water and ice has produced this beautiful, beautiful picture in front of my very own eyes. It was incredible. It's a biggie! Before they can shoot the gorgeous scenes, there's the survival course. Building an ice cave. Which, of course, becomes a ballet barre. These guys are busy. We're dancing, sorry. I actually... I don't even know how we are going to do it. Perhaps a bit of kip will help. Bonne nuit. But there's no night here. The sun doesn't set during the Antarctic summer. My face is still cold. (LAUGHS) I think the dance floor needs to be there with Mount Erebus in the background, that way. Corey is creating his dance sequence in the moment. Here is right outside Scott Base. The four and half minute dance film celebrates Antarctica. Within it has some cheeky little messages, examples of problems we're facing and things that we're doing as a society. I'd say it's more metaphoric, and if your looking at it with those eyes, you'll definitely see it, but you might also just look at it and go, 'Wow, that's an incredible dance in a beautiful place.' Finally, Maddie is dancing on thinning Antarctic ice. Pretty flippin' cool. She looks like James Bond mixed with Angelina Jolie. But Maddie sure did suffer for her art. No gloves in sub-zero temperatures, the least of her worries. It's impossible. That was almost there. Are you OK? Yeah, yeah. Is it because of the pain? It's just hard. Maddie's got bruises all over her body. The floor good? Yeah. It's moving a bit, but it's OK. We've, sort of, taken her out and literally put her in the worst conditions possible. And she thrived. (ELEGANT CLASSICAL MUSIC) And Corey Baker has achieved what he came for ` the first dance film in Antarctica. I don't think I'm ever going to experience anything more life changing than being in Antarctica and having that moment of being alone and standing out and seeing this untouched space that is just... magnificent. (CLASSICAL MUSIC INTENSIFIES) So beautiful. And Corey's dance film will be released on Earth Day, 22nd of April. Corey is hoping to do another dance project ` this time on Mount Everest. So we'll keep you posted. Next, superstar maths teacher, Eddie Woo. He's the maths teacher everyone would've wanted to have. Just because mathematics doesn't come naturally, that doesn't mean you can't work with it and come to an understanding of it. So, you got an answer, but it was off, wasn't it? (LAUGHS) OK, let's try and work out what happened. (RHYTHMIC CHANTING) If you are Maori and 18 or over, the time has come again to make an important choice. Do you want to be enrolled on the General Roll or the Maori Roll? This choice affects who you can vote for to represent you and your area in Parliament. Either way, you'll still be able to vote for any party you like when there's an election. You don't get to choose again for another six years, so let's think about it now. If you're not sure what it's all about, talk it over with your whanau and friends. You'll receive some info in the mail next week. Now is your time to choose. Mau tonu e kowhiri. * Welcome back. Eddie Woo is winning fans worldwide with his high-energy maths lessons, This Australian was a recent finalist for the prestigious Global Teacher Prize, and he's in demand everywhere for his infectious and inspiring lessons. Our principal contacted us yesterday and said, 'Eddie Woo's in town. Text back "Woo-hoo" if you wanna go.' And we were like, 'Woo-hoo! Let's go.' (LAUGHTER) About 500 kids from all over the region have bussed in. He arrives with a profile. He arrives with a very excited, enthusiastic room before him. CROWD: Eddie Woo! (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) I'd like you to imagine that you walk out of the theatre and you meet an alien. They come and they see you and they grab you along, and they say, 'Hey. You just went to this thing about maths. But on my planet, we don't know maths is. What is maths?' What would you say? Rather him just being there for his 20 kids, he's now inspiring hundreds of teachers so we can go back to our 20 kids. One of the hardest things about being out here on the road is that I means I'm away from my school and the students who I have a commitment and a responsibility to. And that is really tough. I miss them a lot. (SCHOOL BELL RINGS) Come in, grab a seat. And if you have your devices there, get your devices out. I've met many students who have come to me and, polite as they are, will walk into my classroom, first day of the year, and they'll say, 'Look, sir. No offense ` I just want you to know, I don't do maths.' There's a lot more to maths than just numbers, right? So, I view that kind of student as my personal mission to turn around. Even if these are in the right order, I would guess they're not all the same distance apart from each other. I've always hated maths. I don't think I have the brain for it at all. Oh, you even put in the tax brackets. Yeah, no, think it's this one. It never made sense to me. And I think not making sense just... it made me so angry. Mathematics never came instinctively for me, which is why now I sort of know that just because mathematics doesn't come naturally, that doesn't mean you can't work with it and come to an understanding of it. Often we give up. So, I think the hard part of this question is, there's so much information. Even some of the most oppositional students, once they get a taste of what it's like to be able to solve a question, they fall in love too. How you going, boys? When I go on playground duty, I go out and I see these hundreds of children running around, and I watch for the students who don't have a group of friends or, even the ones who do, but I can tell they're at the fringes. I think that growing up, even though I could speak the language fluently, I just looked different, and I think that that was an easy thing for my peers to look at and say, 'Well, you know, you just don't fit in.' The people who I spent time with at school, you know, sometimes they would beat me up because I was little, because they could. There were days when I would not want to go to school because that was what I knew was waiting for me. One of the most important qualities of a teacher is to be compassionate. So, you got an answer, but it was off, wasn't it? (LAUGHS) OK, let's try and work out what happened. It's the difficult kids, the kids who don't seek out your help, the kids who are reserved. By this? Yeah, you're gonna have to multiply both of them by 750. A lot of the teachers who made a very deep impact on me, who I would now say inspired me, I saw later on that they saw something in me that I didn't see myself. In 2012, I had a student in one of my classes who was very ill. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was away from school for huge chunks of time, getting treatment. And so I felt very personally that I should do something about this, and I came to that realisation that, actually, we have technology now that can help with this. When my lesson started, I just hit record. So, one, two, three definitions. Now, sigma notation relates to this middle one. All my other students noticed that I was doing this, and they said, 'Hey, what's that about, sir?' And, sure enough, they started to watch, and they started passing the links for the videos to their friends in other classes and then those students started to meet with friends from other schools. He now has 200,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel. He's only getting that traffic because students find it so rewarding, because he's such a good explainer of mathematical complexity. And so they come back again and again and again. I don't know where he finds the time. You talk to him and he's going, 'Oh, head of maths, I had to go do this thing 'and going to interview panel for another school. And I gotta upload this video, edit this 'and gonna start making practice papers for you guys. 'And then, oh, my kid's sick, and I gotta take him to the doctor's.' And I'm going, 'There's 24 hours in the day for you, right? It's not more.' Whoops! Don't take the whole pile. All right. Who's gonna go first? He really works hard at making family time, family time and work life, work life. What colour's that? Blue! Blue. Nathan, your turn next. (ALL LAUGH) You probably like your toys too. Australia's local hero for 2018... is Eddie Woo. (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) We were sitting there in Parliament House next to Michelle when suddenly, the prime minister got up and said my name, and I gradually lost sensation in the bottom half of my body because I just thought, 'What is this? Is this real?' I thought it was one of those Oscars' moments, where it was kind of like, you know, 'It's La La Land! Oh, no, wait, sorry, we got the wrong name.' Eddie, congratulations. Thank you so much. We shouldn't say, 'Oh, someone's just a teacher.' We should say, 'You're amazing. You're a teacher ` you change young people's lives, 'and you equip them to be something they never dreamed they could be or achieve.' That's... It's a miracle every single time. (CHEERING) Oh, couldn't agree more. We should celebrate teachers. Now, Eddie didn't win the world's top teacher prize, but he was in the final 10. Pretty amazing. And that is us for now. We're having a break over Easter and during the Commonwealth Games. We'll be back on April 22nd. Meantime, join us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram ` SundayTVNZ.