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MsMikaela Debela

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Dance-10

Creative Arts

BIO

Mikaela Debela is a creative practitioner, producer, and researcher based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Mikaela's research encounters ritual methodologies within multi-modal choreographic practice, and considers the way collaborative partnerships unfold in these conditions.

 

Distinctions/Honours

 

2025    Taitea Masters Award in Creative Research
2024    Summer Research Scholarship
2023    First in Course Award for Safe Dance Practices (Dance 222)
2023    First in Course Award for Community Dance (Dance 231)
2022    First in Course Award for Dance Kinesiology (Dance 112)
2022    First in Course Award for Dance Writing (Dance 121)

UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND APPOINTMENTS

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant - Dance-10
    Faculty of Arts and Education, Creative Arts, New Zealand

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant (DANCE 110:Contemporary Dance and Choreography 1)
    University of Auckland, Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts and Education, Auckland, New Zealand21 Jul 2025 - 14 Nov 2025

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Producer - Dance Studies Performance Series
    University of Auckland, Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts and Education, Auckland, New Zealand13 Jul 2026 - present
  • Dance Teacher
    Heel Haus, Auckland, New Zealand14 Feb 2026 - present
  • Photo Archive Curator
    University of Auckland, Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts and Education, Auckland, New Zealand20 May 2025 - 19 Dec 2025
  • Stage Manager - Dance Studies Performance Series
    University of Auckland, Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts and Education, Auckland, New Zealand15 Sep 2025 - 14 Nov 2025
  • Student Ambassador
    University of Auckland, Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries, Auckland, New Zealand27 Aug 2022 - 15 Nov 2024

DEGREES

  • Bachelor of Dance Studies
    University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand28 Feb 2022 - 15 Nov 2024

FACULTY / INSTITUTE

  • Arts and Education

FIELDS OF RESEARCH