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University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Dance Program in the Department of Theatre and Dance, BA/BFA/MA/MFA Dance Concentration, PhD Performance Studies

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Still floating. 🌈👑

Last night I opened for the Queen of Bounce, BIG FREEDIA, on the historic Hawaii Theatre stage for Honolulu Pride, and I’m still trying to find the words.

Singing songs from SHAPESHIFTER to that room, with all of you giving me your eyes & ears, is something I will carry with me forever. Thank you to who Mahalo nui to everyone who came early, danced, filmed, and sent love. 💚 Thank you @thereverendravage for your help backstage plus thanks to @misscatwings & @baduy_comedian for the beautiful lei.

Huge mahalo to @hawaiitheatre, @honolulupride and the whole crew for making it happen — most especially to @masterdungeonmistress for EVERYTHING — to my incredible friends @neminamoon & @goodjob808 who joined me on stage, and of course to @bigfreedia for bringing the bounce to Honolulu. 🍑

SHAPESHIFTER is out now everywhere. Link in bio.

And we’re not done! Come see me this Sunday at @honolulumuseum for Pride Family Sunday with @misstaraway as well as this year’s USQ Winner @thelucasbrand. It’s FREE for Hawaiʻi residents. 🎨

#sirdanpaul #SHAPESHIFTER #BigFreedia #HonoluluPride #HawaiiTheatre

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Suck an Amazing experience Opening up for
The Big Freedia👑
Happy Pride everyone🏳️‍🌈
#loveislove #bigfreediaqueendiva
#uhm #uhmdance

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So honored for my hip hop classes to be invited as openers for the one and only @bigfreedia! We gonna get funky, spread love, and have a beautiful time! Happy Pride!!!

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TWO DAYS UNTIL BIG FREEDIA! 🔥🌈

This Thursday, October 15, we’re taking over the historic Hawaii Theatre, and I want YOU there!

I’ll be performing music from my newly released 15-track album, SHAPESHIFTER, with special guest musicians Nemina Moon and GJ Ganotisi, as part of an incredible night headlined by the one and only BIG FREEDIA!

PLUS, preshow performances by Haus of Zamora and the UHM Hip Hop Dance Group!

🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
hawaiitheatre.com
Use promo code PRIDE15 at checkout for 15% OFF!

I talk a little in this video about how SHAPESHIFTER came into being because I chose to follow an actual dream I had. Not a metaphorical dream. An honest-to-goodness dream.

And now, watching all of these extraordinary things unfold, I can’t help feeling like the universe is responding to that leap of faith.

Sometimes you have to act on the magic before the magic fully reveals itself. ✨

Speaking of which…

My new website is LIVE!

Visit sirdanpaul.com to stream SHAPESHIFTER on your favorite platform and explore the lyrics, album notes, promotional photos, and more.

This record has been a long time coming, and I’d love for you to spend some time with it.

But FIRST — let’s fill that theatre on Thursday and make some NOISE for BIG FREEDIA!

See you there, Honolulu. Let’s make a little history. ❤️

#BigFreedia #SHAPESHIFTER #sirdanpaul #HonoluluPride #HawaiiTheatre

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#navaratri #dandiya #garba #deepika #bollywood @jadehguada @samimi_023 @uhmdance @asianstudiesuhmanoa @hindi.with.sai

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UH Mānoa dance students took the stage in EPIC.

The dance-theatre production was choreographed and directed by professor Pei-Ling Kao and Sunny Nai-Hsuan Yang of Taiwan’s Les Petites Choses Production.

The show ran Sept. 30 to Oct. 4, at Kennedy Theatre’s Earle Ernst Lab Theatre.

#dance #theater #hawaii #hawaiitheater #uhmanoa

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Rरegh! What an experience! Choreography @sai.bhatawadekar music happy birthday @nawahineokalai dancers @pritha_for_now @tessa_rudig @_ritukrishna_ @mi4dav1es @alia_xoxo20 @katelynn @uhmdance @uhmkennedytheatre @uhmanoanews @call_uhmanoa

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KICK OFF PRIDE MONTH WITH US TONIGHT! 🏳️‍🌈✨ First Friday: HNL Pride 2026 Queer Arts Festival is taking over Capitol Modern with an evening of drag, dance, poetry, fashion, music, art, and community! 🎶🎨

Here’s what’s happening throughout the museum:
❤️ Sculpture Garden – Poems of Pride by Kamamo House, DJ A.i.T., UH Mānoa Queer Dance Exploratory, Miss Khan T.’s Ancestral Drag Performance, Rated R x Kikini Fashion Show, and Generation Next closing out the night with a Drag Show!
🧡 2nd Floor Galleries – Explore Trifecta and join a Drag Gallery Tour with Cocoa Chandelier
💛 2nd Floor Sculpture Lobby – Get creative with House of Bloom & Avalon Paradea
💚 Grand Lānai – Shop Art+Flea vendors featuring handmade goods, fashion, art, collectibles, food & more
💙 1st Floor – Explore Arts of Oceania and the HŌʻĀ mini-exhibit, and shop locally made finds at MORI by Art+Flea (@mori_hawaii)
💜 The Café – Enjoy elevated Hawaiian eats and drinks by Nui Kealoha (nuikealohahawaii)

Come celebrate Pride, support local creatives, explore the museum after hours, and spend your Friday night with us! 🌈

🎟️ FREE, family-friendly & all ages welcome
📅 TONIGHT! Friday, October 2, 5:30-9:30 PM
📍 Capitol Modern is The Hawaiʻi State Art Museum
🏳️‍🌈 Presented with the Hawaiʻi LGBT Legacy Foundation

#CapitolModern #HNLPride #HonoluluPride #FirstFriday #Hawaii ThingsToDoInHonolulu

Promotional graphic for October First Friday: HNL Pride 2026 Queer Arts Festival at Capitol Modern. The evening features drag, dance, poetry, fashion, music, gallery experiences, interactive art, local Art+Flea vendors, food, and shopping throughout the museum. The graphic includes photos of drag performers in the Sculpture Garden during Capitol Modern’s 2025 Pride First Friday celebration, photographed by LVRG Group.

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Queer movement, expression, and creativity take the stage this First Friday! 🏳️‍🌈💃

Students from UH Mānoa’s Queer Dance Exploratory are joining us for HNL Pride 2026: Queer Arts Festival at Capitol Modern!

Led by Native Hawaiian drag artist and practitioner Sami L.A. Akuna, aka Cocoa Chandelier, the course explores queer movement practices including drag, runway, vogue, and pageantry while drawing connections to ballroom culture, Honolulu revue history, and Asian/Pacific Islander māhū movement practices.

See their work move beyond the classroom and into the community with a special performance alongside DJ A.i.T. in the Sculpture Garden!

🎟️ FREE, family-friendly & all ages welcome
📅 Friday, October 2, 5:30-9:30 PM | Queer Dance Exploratory + DJ A.i.T. | 7:45–7:55 PM
📍 Capitol Modern is the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum
🏳️‍🌈 Presented with the Hawaiʻi LGBT Legacy Foundation

#CapitolModern #HNLPride #HonoluluPride #UHM #QueerDance FirstFriday HonoluluEvents ThingsToDoInHonolulu

Promotional flyer featuring performers from the UH Mānoa Queer Dance Exploratory, who will perform during HNL Pride 2026: Queer Arts Festival at Capitol Modern on October 2.

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Hey ‘bows 🌈🌺
Get ready for an extraordinary experience—EPIC is coming to the Earle Ernst Lab stage! Don’t miss out on this incredible show. 🎭✨

Showtimes:
* Thursday, Oct 1 | 7:30 PM
* Friday, Oct 2 | 7:30 PM
* Saturday, Oct 3 | 2:00 PM
* Sunday, Oct 4 | 2:00 PM

Ticket Prices:
🎟️ $9 – UHM Student (with current valid UHM ID)
🎟️ $13 – Non-UHM Student / Youth
🎟️ $16 – UH Faculty & Staff, Military, Senior
🎟️ $18 – Regular (Adult)
More info @uhmkennedytheatre 🎟️👇

#gobows #theatre #EPIC #manoanow #uhmanoa

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I planned for this international collaboration two years ago. From secure funding, confirm the season slot, plan for LPCP’s UHM residency, learn how to be a sponsor of J-1 visa and the complication of payment policy, find more funding for the project, envision the light, scenic, and costume, hold the audition, work around 20 students’ schedules, choreograph, train the students cast, brainstorm the poster image, discuss music/sound scape direction, revise and refine choreography, organize outreach workshop, rehearse on stage, make adjustment, tech … many communications and aloha circles….

EPIC opens tomorrow and then it will be over.

I’m very grateful for LPCP’s willingness to come here. They applied for multiple grants from Taiwan to make this collaboration happen. They bring their company mission, professionalism, fun, and their coolness to our campus, classroom and stage.

This work has been growing and glowing in the last two weeks because of the hard work we put in. Here is a reel made by LPCP from their two-week residency this March. I treasure all the sweet moments of laughter, sweat, and tears. It really reflects in our work. Come to see EPIC!

#internationalcollaborations #contemporarydance #movementimprovisation #dancetheaterproduction #humanity

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