Kaea pearce
Some people dance. Kaea Pearce commands. A proud Ngāpuhi wahine who came up on the floors of The Palace under Parris Goebel, Kaea went from ReQuest and The Royal Family to front and centre in Justin Bieber's 'Sorry' before she was old enough to legally celebrate it. Jennifer Lopez at the AMAs. Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime. Little Mix, Ciara, Enrique, NYFW. If it's a stage worth standing on, chances are Kaea's already stood on it and made it look easy.
But the real flex is what she's built. Leader of @agsquadofficial, Kaea took her crew, little sister Ruthy included, all the way to runner-up on Mnet's World of Street Woman Fighter, going bar for bar with the best crews on the planet in front of a global audience. Now choreographing for the likes of NCT DREAM, teaching workshops from Europe to Asia, and speaking on the TED stage, she's gone from being in the room to running it.
Aggressive in the studio, all heart outside of it. Kaea's the kind of leader who makes everyone around her sharper and then hands them the credit for it. Fiercely Māori, family-first, and genuinely unbothered by the idea of a ceiling. She's been putting cracks in them since she was eighteen. Kaea doesn't just hit the beat. She owns it.
World of Street Woman Fighter (Mnet), Rihanna's Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show, Justin Bieber 'Sorry', Born to Dance, TEDx
Location: Brisbane, Australia