🧠: @vincentfarane
🪐: @danchellaofficial
👨👩👧👦: @nappyboyzsthakl 🥈🐺
Acknowledging the work that Vigi has poured into the Boyz to educate us about history, essence, ballroom culture & proper cunty vogue for a fresh team in such a short time! 💓
Even tho I’m not in the scene, got BIG love & respect for the craft & the ppl that have built up Aotearoa’s Ballroom scene to what it is today. 🦋
THANK YOU to everyone thats contributed to my knowing in this style over the years (even prior to the Boyz) — thru wānanga, workshops or kata’s at the back of Sams house 😂 acknowledging my roots darrrlllzzz💋💓
@vincentfarane@jaycee_babyyy@houseofiman_@lilhoneycxnt@sam_ioane93@juju_farane@darren_x23@earl.jervindc
Maxine & Raukawa
“Home is where the heart is, love through the lens”
Ben & Chas 📍 Papakura
Wearing Men’s White L Box Tee & Women’s White M Tank
Get yours now!! Check the website link in our bio to purchase yours!!
Love you, Loveher 💗 xo
As part of our dancers koha for @sipnthriftnz , @chasmamea designed personalised DVDs & covers for each group. The DVDs contain videos of their mahi from the past couple years as a small token of appreciation. ⭐️
The idea came from digging through my old things at mums house and finding old homemade videos (that only exist in hardcopy form), and reminiscing about the old days. 📟
These guys get to keep a timestamp of their achievements in hardcopy form… in the hopes that they will one day get to look back at it and think, damn… I really did that 🙂↕️ A piece of nostalgia that they get to keep forever in a time where our work is highly digitised and we’re constantly having to pay for storage subscriptions to maintain and keep a record of our artistry.
Thank you again to all who were involved. This event literally came out of the organisers back pockets… no big funding… we are just passionate about bringing communities together — we wanted to give something back for those who contributed to the vision.
Recaps coming 🔜
Here’s to more ⭐️
Mahalo @apdancefest for having me 🩵
I come here to Hawaii and recognise the importance of the positionality of the researcher for the communities I/we belong to 🤎 There is (STILL) much research being done on behalf of Pacific voices by ppl who don’t belong to these communities. Although intentions mean well, there need to be more Indigenous & Pasifika in these spaces. I advocate for what (street & contemporary) dance means to me, my people and my communities so our voices can be valued and recognised in spaces outside of just dance… From real, lived experiences. Not just through observations and scholarly writing.
To engage in street/contemporary dance as a brown body is a political act — an act of resistance, an act of service to our communities darlings. And to write/speak to that dancing shifts the thinking for those who don’t engage in those dances with us. It promotes change in the policies, the funding rules, what is considered “valuable” in our societies.
Still doing the work… this was more of a WIP presentation but eye opening mahi that rlly pushes me to keep doing the thing. 🌺
Thank you to Mana Toa (UoA) for supporting me to get here, and to my sister @naythegemini for supporting us with our flights 🔌
