Since 1999, Tiaki has been a recognized contemporary Māori dancer and choreographer, a founding member of Atamira Dance Collective and director of I Moving Lab. Tiaki was an A.M.P Scholarship recipient to the USA, as a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of California Riverside, Artist in Residence at University of California Berkeley, at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute, Regent’s Scholar at University of California Los Angeles, and a contributor to Indigenous Choreographer’s at Riverside Project fostering new directions for Indigenous contemporary dance. Based in Aotearoa, Tiaki continues to broaden perceptions of Māori contemporary having recently established Whakamana Creatives and Embodied Research Lab.

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