Starting 2026 right with @swarmstudios.selwyn 🦋
Thank you to everyone who came out, shared your energy, and danced with me - my heart is always happy after being with the chch fam 🫰🏼
ALLIES 2025 💙🤍 @rasaschoolofdance
This team were proof that with hard work and dedication you can accomplish anything you set your mind to. Being the first team from Dunedin to represent on the Hip Hop International stage was a major milestone in not only their individual dance journeys but the community that surrounds them! Honestly as a coach I couldn’t be prouder of them all, and I believe that the experiences this team had further ignited their passion for dance and the belief in themselves 🫂
Dancers: Maya Satake, Safera Wintrup, Toby Paris, Charlotte Cardno, Emily Aubin, Ruby Martin, Amber Woods 💃🏻
Choreography: Danielle Veenvliet + breaking set from Cody Veenvliet 🧠
Huge thanks to @coach.dnell from @rasaschoolofdance and Yama for bringing the energy, skill, and love to Swarm Studios Selwyn! 👏
Grateful to have you both in our space and inspiring our students to be fearless. What an awesome turn out 🫶🏼👌🏽🔥
Make sure you check out @rasaschoolofdance to see how you can support Allies as they get ready to represent NZ at @officialhhi ⭐️
💜ADCC Regionals 2025💜
Diamond - 3rd Place Junior Crew + Qualified for the Finals in Sydney 🥉
So proud of this team, an amazing result for their second comp of the year ☺️
💙 HHU 2025 💙
One for the books as a legendary @hiphopunitenz for my teams!
Allies - Junior Worlds Top 8 Finalists
Diamond - Future Champions Top 8 Finalists
2LANKY - 2nd Place Junior Worlds Duo + World Qualifiers for Prague
$WEAT¥ - 2nd Place Adult Worlds Duo + World Qualifiers for Prague
Safera Solo - 15+ Solo Finalist & 4th Place
Toby Solo - 15+ Solo Finalist & 3rd Place
This year marks 10 years of me being a coach/choreographer and I am always grateful for @rasaschoolofdance for giving me the space and energy to learn and grow from nothing into the confident coach and choreographer I am now 🫶🏼
Leaving Wellington inspired and ready to push my students and career even further xx
ALLIES from @rasaschoolofdance at @hhi_nz 2025 💙🖤🤍
The beginning of the comp year started off with a bang! We went up to Auckland with the strongest team and set we’ve ever had and we exceeded our own expectations. Getting 6th in prelims and getting into finals along some of the best varsity crews in NZ was honestly surreal for us as coming from Dunedin, we always feel like the underdogs at these big comps. We went into finals with the attitude of genuinely being happy just to even be included in finals and were a bit shocked at the fact how close we were to have the opportunity to push further to top 5 for a spot in worlds but were excited by the challenge. When awards were getting announced and the 5th place crew got announced and it wasn’t us, we were content with the fact that we didn’t make it as just being in finals was a massive goal for us. But when they awarded us 4th place, which meant we jumped up to spots from prelims and qualified for HHI worlds in Arizona, to say we were excited was an understatement! This moment was a true testament to all our hard work and proof that dancers from Dunedin are WORLD CLASS.
As a coach my biggest dream was being able to qualify a team for worlds and now we’ve achieved that, it’s only up from here!
SEE YA IN ARIZONA HHI 🇺🇸
KUSTARD 2.0 2024 @otagogirlshigh ❤️
Started helping out with the hip hop crews at the OGHS by coaching one last year. This team was such a great energy and vibe together and really brought that raw energy out on stage every time they performed! Here’s a little snippet of the regionals set (this was my fave part) - at this comp they managed to get 3rd which which we were so excited by as for many of these dancers that was their first hip hop dance medal ever 🔥💪🏼
Also this name and red jackets were a reference to an iconic crew from OGHS back in the day called ‘KUSTARD’ which featured a group of powerhouses who dominated local and national competitions, this crew also featured my first ever crew coach Ashlyn (who was my idol when I was in high school) 🫶🏼
Dancers: Emily Aubin, Rata Williams, Hayley Ward, Emma Fahey, Brooke Witana Reddington, Brooke Beaman, Olivia Hurley, Lucy Fitzgerald, Sienna Zampach, Caitlin Butson 👯♀️
Choreography: Danielle Veenvliet 🧠
ALLIES 2024 💚🤎@rasaschoolofdance
Such a fun set and team, this footage is from their last comp for the year and it was a special moment as it was the last time many of them were dancing with each other as they were moving on and up to different adventures 😇
Dancers: Maya Satake, Safera Wintrup, Toby Paris, Ruby Martin, Chloe Uluakiola, Maisie O’Donnell, Izzy Brown, Tahlia Mortimer, Monet Morrison 👯♀️
Choreography: Danielle Veenvliet + a collab with Thomas Read for the ending krump 🧠
MASI & DNELL SHOWCASE PIECE 2024 @rasaschoolofdance ❤️🤍
Made and taught this piece for a fundraising workshop last year and loved it so much I had to have this icon dance it with me one last time, Masi is such a vibey icon and Dunedin has been lucky to have him here 🙂↕️
Dancers: Danielle Veenvliet, Thomas Read 👯♀️
Choreographer: Danielle Veenvliet + a little collab moment of the intro/ending 🧠
