Pacific Dance

MoanaShowcase ✨ - NZSD

🌺 The Heilala In The Concrete Garden carries the mana of the moana into the city, drawing inspiration from the iconic Māori and Pasifika bands of the 60s and 70s and exploring how culture continues to thrive within urban landscapes.

🌧️ to stand, and again (forever) journeys through memory, kinship, and connection to land—finding wonder in rain-soaked skin, mountain views, and the quiet act of learning where we belong.

⏳ In The Meantime sits in the uncomfortable space of waiting, navigating impatience, restlessness, and the tension between resisting time and surrendering to it.

Together, these works invite us to pause and reflect on the spaces we inhabit, the places that shape us, and the moments in between that transform us.

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MoanaShowcase - Unitech ✨

From the contagious energy of Nothing Leaves the Parade, where spectacle, memory, and community collide in an ever-shifting landscape, to the razor-sharp synchronicity of Whip Snap, where two bodies navigate the space between connection and illusion, and Pupa, a meditation on transformation, resistance, and becoming.

Together, these works explore what happens when bodies gather, adapt, and evolve. They question how we move with one another, how we are changed by the people around us, and how identity is continuously reshaped through collective experience.

Nothing stays still. Nothing remains the same.

Here are a few snaps from Nothing Leaves the Parade, Whip Snap, and Pupa at the 2026 Pacific Dance Festival.

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