Born in 1960, Maari has danced for most of her life, reaching virtuosity in the New Zealand Ballet. She has worked as a fitness instructor and a community sexual health educator. As a result of the extreme physical demands of professional ballet, Maari has had a hip replacement. A career shift into midwifery and mortuary technician has not stopped Maari from continuing her dance practice. There is barely a program area of Tracks where Maari has not been involved: full-length performances Global Positioning, Seasons of Skin and Bark, and Chasing The Moon; En Masse dance in public spaces, participant in the 2019 Choreographic Development Course; a performer for the award-winning experimental short film project - Home Bodies; plus a Space time Studio Residency with Lizzi Webb. Maari was chosen as a local dance artist to work alongside David McMicken and Helen Herbertson to collaborate on applied research through performance in the 2023 Tracks project Generating Divergence - Ageing into the Unknown.