Ovy Rianintya Subandrio
Ovy is currently a student at Victoria University of Wellington, doing a degree in Bachelor of Commerce and Administration.She has a passion for dancing, and has been doing it since she was 10 years old. She began to take an interest after learning Indonesian traditional dances in Dar es Salaam, to participate in dance performances that are held by the Indonesia Embassy in Tanzania, east Africa.
Since moving to Wellington a few years ago, her dance interest grew from Indonesian traditional dances to hip hop and ballroom.
To further expand her dancing skills and knowledge, she joined Pump Dance (Wellington), and during her spare time, enjoys taking classes at Victoria University, 'Dance with Me @Vic'. She also practice ballroom steps with her father as an early introduction to ballroom.
Ovy joined Pelangi Nusantara in 2008, and has been enjoying the 'ride with the team'.
Pelangi Nusatara has help her strengthen her dancing skills, and develop new ones by learning different kind of traditional dances from Indonesia.
Nevertheless, she is proud to be a part of a group that contributes in introducing her beautiful home Indonesia, through cultural performances.
All thanks to the well-experienced coach, and amazing dance members who have made dancing more fun, entertaining, and meaningful.
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Kania Hermono
Kania is currently a student at Victoria University Wellington. She has completed her Bachelor of Commerce and Administration last year and is currently in her last semester completing her Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Analysis.She is very passionate about Fair Trade and has been volunteering for Trade Aid Wellington since 2008. She is involved in various university clubs such as AIESEC. She also enjoys running if and when the sun shines and reading classic books.
She joined Pelangi Nusantara in 2008 and has enjoyed being part of such an amazing team that is always fun to be around and work with. They never fail to make her days just a tad bit more interesting.
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Tiara Subandrio
She is 17 years old and is in her last year (Year13) of high school at Onslow College, Wellington, New Zealand. When she was in nursery, her mom got her into traditional Indonesian dances and she liked it straight away.Outside of school, she takes hip hop dance classes at Pump Dance Studios in Wellington and have a crew along with the other girls in class. Her crew and herself competes in various competitions such as FISAF Nationals, Les Mills Hiphop Competition and perform in the International Dance Day, Parties and Functions as well as produce an end of year/term Productions.
She joined Pelangi Nusantara dance in 2008. She enjoys dancing for Pelangi Nusantara, because of the fellow dancers that keeps it fun and enjoyable as well as the coach, Mba Nina Liando, she is awesome and so lovely to all dancers and everyone else which makes practice very easy.
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Nina Kusumo Liando
Prior to coming to NZ, she worked in several property developers as an executive secretary after graduated from Tarakanita Secretarial Academy. Born and raised in a strong Javanese culture family, as a great granddaughter of Paku Buwono IX, she had been training for dancing since primary school when she joined Indonesian Dance Laboratory directed by Wiwiek Widyastuti.In the period of 1988-2000 with her dance group, she had performed for some national events and several special state events at the Presidential Palace. She had also performed for international events in several cities such as Rome, Amsterdam, Berlin, Athens, Vancouver, San Fransisco, Seattle, Washington, Kobe, Taipei, Singapore and Sydney.
She now lives in NZ and has a mission to preserve the Indonesian culture of traditional dance by introducing it to young people for they can take the responsibility of fostering cultural pride whilst overseas.
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Photos Nina dancing at international events 1988-2000
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