NOAH K. MURRAY/THE STAR-LEDGERUsing glow sticks to practice, Tom Leonard doubles as a fire artist who spins poi, Australian weights on ropes that are swung in tribal dance. On a moonless night in ...

Thousands of New Zealanders watched indigenous Maori dancers twirl white "poi" balls in a blur of motion and take to traditional canoes, or waka, in the picturesque Bay of Islands as the country ...