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UH Asia Pacific dance fest rallies after $25K cut, public support needed

Hosted by UH Mānoa’s Outreach College, the festival brings together artists and dance traditions from across Asia, the Pacific and Hawaiʻi.

This was just the second year the UH Mānoa team competed at the national competition since the formation of the club in September 2022.

University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo dance students were chosen to compete at the 2025 American College Dance Association Festival in Washington, D.C.

UH Mānoa Faculty, lecturers and graduate students will tour with their original world premiere dance production, EchoEight.

The festival offers workshop participants and performance attendees a deep dive into movement, music, history, language and cultural traditions.

Beige: An Afro Ballet is an interdisciplinary collaboration by graduate students Jonathan Clarke Sypert and Marcus Moore.

Graduating students showcase their original choreography in MFA/BFA Dance Concert: Introspection.

The dynamic dance shows features a blend of hula, ballet, martial arts, yoga and contemporary movement at Kennedy Theatre.

Eleven projects were awarded a total of $2.3 million in the 4th UH Mānoa Strategic Investment Initiative competition.

Ligaya Stice earned an MD and PhD from Boston University, and Tammy Spain earned a PhD from Yale University.