{"id":4428,"date":"2026-02-18T00:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:43:12","slug":"2026-february-achievement-diamond-dance-awards-tauranga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/cn\/2026-february-achievement-diamond-dance-awards-tauranga\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 February Achievement: Diamond Dance Awards Tauranga\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our students for their outstanding performance at the Diamond Dance Awards Tauranga!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They proudly brought home 1 champion\ud83c\udfc6, 2 Runner-Ups\ud83e\udd48, 2 Second Runner-Ups\ud83e\udd49,2\ud83e\udd47,5\ud83e\udd48,2\ud83e\udd49, 2 Forth Place and 3 Fifth Place \ud83c\udf3a\ud83c\udf3a\ud83c\udf3a \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Jessica<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\uff08Under 8 Solo\uff09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Gem Love of Dance Championship\uff1aChampion\ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lyrical\uff1a2nd Place\ud83e\udd48<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Contemporary\uff1a2nd Place\ud83e\udd48<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Jazz\uff1a2nd Place\ud83e\udd48<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Musical Theatre\uff1a3rd Place\ud83e\udd49<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WechatIMG2877-760x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4431\" style=\"width:672px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WechatIMG2877-760x1024.jpg 760w, 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class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lyrical\uff1a5th Place\ud83c\udf3a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Musical Theatre\uff1a5th Place\ud83c\udf3a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Olivia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\uff08Under 8 Solo\uff09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Ruby Love of Dance Championship\uff1aSecond Runner-Up\ud83e\udd49<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Contemporary\uff1a 3rd Place\ud83e\udd49<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Musical Theatre\uff1a4th Place\ud83c\udf3a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lyrical\uff1a4th Place\ud83c\udf3a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Jazz\uff1a5th Place\ud83c\udf3a<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" 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class=\"has-text-align-center\">\uff089-11 Years Solo\uff09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Emerald Love of Dance Championship\uff1aRunner-Up\ud83e\udd48<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Diamond Heart Finals\uff1aSecond Runner-Up\ud83e\udd49<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Contemporary\uff1a1st Place\ud83e\udd47<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lyrical\uff1a1st Place\ud83e\udd47<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Open Contemporary Freestyle\uff1a2nd Place\ud83e\udd48<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Open Lyrical Freestyle\uff1a2nd Place\ud83e\udd48<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Musical Theatre\uff1a 3rd Place\ud83e\udd49<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WechatIMG4891-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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They proudly brought home 1 champion\ud83c\udfc6, 2 Runner-Ups\ud83e\udd48, 2 Second Runner-Ups\ud83e\udd49,2\ud83e\udd47,5\ud83e\udd48,2\ud83e\udd49, 2 Forth Place and 3 Fifth Place \ud83c\udf3a\ud83c\udf3a\ud83c\udf3a \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6 Jessica \uff08Under 8 Solo\uff09 Gem Love of Dance Championship\uff1aChampion\ud83c\udfc6 Lyrical\uff1a2nd Place\ud83e\udd48 Contemporary\uff1a2nd Place\ud83e\udd48 Jazz\uff1a2nd Place\ud83e\udd48 Musical Theatre\uff1a3rd Place\ud83e\udd49 Veronica \uff08Under 8 Solo\uff09 Gem Love of Dance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-competitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4434,"href":"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/4434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardance.co.nz\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}