Unitec Performing & Screen Arts

The MOANA Showcase has always been a launchpad for emerging Pacific talent — and this year’s lineup is incredible.
Our new blog dives into the eight works, the themes, and the artists behind them.
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Moana Showcase 2026: Fresh Voices, Bold Visions, and the Future of Pacific Dance The Moana Showcase returns to the Pacific Dance Festival with a powerful line‑up of new works from the next generation of Pacific and Aotearoa dance...

At Unitec, the phrase “find your thing” is the institution’s call to new students’ purpose. In this year’s end-of-year SHOWCASE, the Unitec School of Creative Industries' dance programme seems to have indeed found its thing. Read the full review of this year's show at Te Pou Theatre in Theatreview: New Zealand Performing Arts Reviews.

Unitec Dance SHOWCASE 2025 Choreographers: Louise Pōtiki Bryant, Xin Ji, Tori Manley-Tapu, Aloali'i Tapu Composers: Paddy Free, Samara Alofa Show Director: Katie Burton Rehearsal Director: Tamsin Russell

Celebrate our Unitec Unitec-Te Pūkenga Performing & Screen Arts Graduates with us tonight at the Hollywood Avondale

Whether you’re an industry insider, proud whānau, or a lover of great storytelling, this showcase offers fresh talent, and a chance to connect with emerging voices in screen arts.

✨Doors open at 6:30PM for a 7PM start.

✨Nau mai, Haere mai. All Welcome.

✨ FREE TO ATTEND

This weekend, our graduating Unitec acting students open their 2025 Graduation Production, Thornton Wilder's beloved OUR TOWN at the Unitec Film Studio in Te Pūtahi, Building 108. We'd love to see you there at the show!

Performed by our 2025 Year 3 Unitec Acting cohort and directed by Unitec Acting Discipline Leader and acclaimed theatre-maker, Sam Snedden, this play is full of love, beauty, and quiet magic.

Our Town reminds us that even the smallest moments in life are worth celebrating.

“The greatest American play ever written.” — Edward Albee

A poignant and timely work performed by the next wave of emerging actors in Aotearoa.

OUR TOWN | Sat 01 Nov - Sun 09 Nov

Unitec Film Studio (Building 108, Gate 4, Carrington Rd, Mt Albert)

🗓️ 1–9 November 2025

Get tickets now from iTICKET https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2025/nov/unitec-our-town

Unitec Dance lecturer and 2015 Unitec graduate contemporary dancer, Xin Ji prepares to bring Body Story to the Nelson Arts Festival — a work that asks what our bodies might remember, even when our minds have moved on. Body Story will be performed at Nelson Theatre Royal on Saturday 25 October. Tickets from nelsonartsfestival.nz

Not Everything Needs Explaining: The Subtle Radicalism of Xin Ji YOUR EX meets contemporary dancer Xin Ji as he prepares to bring Body Story to the Nelson Arts Festival — a work that asks what our bodies might remember, even when our minds have moved on. Contem…