With less than a week to go, the annual Pacific Dance Festival 2025 will showcase the beauty and diversity of Pacific dance. This year promises to bring together talent from across Aotearoa New Zealand and from the Pacific region. Each performance brings stories to life through rhythm, expression and choreography.
Shows will include a solo performance Kuramanuya by acclaimed First Nations choreographer Thomas E.S. Kelly.
The artist spotlight will focus on artist Naomi Vailima, a member of PHAP, an inclusive organisation dedicated to empowering individuals with disabilities. This year Naomi returns opening the festival with PHAB Pasifika’s full-length show Stories About Us.
And described as Pacific storytelling at its finest is a Double Bill featuring Lyncia Muller’s Kuini and Tauveve Andy Tilo-Faiaoga’s Shapes in the Clouds. Lyncia reimagines the poetry of Queen Salote Tupou III through elegant Tongan movement and contemporary choreography.
Tauveve Andy blends dance, theatre and poetry in a heartfelt intergeneration tale.
To find out more for tickets and the festival programme, visit here.
