Today was Rehearsals Day for our contestants of Miss Pacific Islands 2025, marking their first official rehearsal for the Pageant. Some of today’s rehearsals included the Opening Dance/Number rehearsal, one of the most exciting segment of the pageant night. Here is a quick throwback to the 2018 Miss Pacific Islands Opening number held in the beautiful Kingdom of Tonga, lead by then Miss Pacific Islands, Matauaina To’omalatai of American Samoa. #MissPacificIslands #MPI2025 #OpeningNumber #Pacific

Miss Pacific Islands Moemoana Schwenke has chosen to honour Tonga by performing the Tau'olunga at this year's Heilala paegant. 🇹🇴 🇼🇸 It's the first time a Miss Pacific Islands and Miss Samoa performed a Tau'olunga on the Heilala stage. 🌺 ❤️ Moemoana said she has been learning the traditional Tonga dance through tutors at the Matavai Pacific Cultural Arts Centre in preparation for the performance at the pageant. ❤️ "To see the contrast with Siva Samoa... I enjoyed learning about the differen

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