MAUI, Hawaii – Clipped into hair and strung into leis, fresh plumerias fill the banquet hall with a sweet scent. Soon, the dim stage lights brighten and the audience quiets. A group of 10 or so ...
Hula instructor Akiko Colton spends her day living and breathing the ancient Hawaiian dance known as hula in her Eugene studio. “It’s part of my life, so I cannot just take it out. My blood needs hula ...
GRANADA HILLS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Lyn-Del Pedersen has been teaching students at Aloha Hula Polynesian Dance Studio in Granada Hills for over 15 years. "What we try to do is perpetuate the culture ...
Decades before Hawaii would join the United States, there Hawaiian Room was already bringing the spirit of aloha to New York at the Hotel Lexington. Though it’s been closed since 1966, the famous hula ...
A short walk from the buzz of South Bank, down an unassuming alleyway, you'll find a dance studio that quickly reveals itself ...
My grandmother, a beautiful hula dancer. Hula runs in my blood. When my Papa saw my Grandma Becky dancing hula one night in a dance hall, armed with her ukulele, mu'u mu'u, and beautiful smile, he ...
SEVEN NEWS. FROM HULA DANCING TO THE WORD ALOHA, NATIVE HAWAIIANS SHARE THEIR CULTURE WITH THE WORLD DURING THE MONTH OF MAY. COREY HOWARD SHOWS US HOW THEY HOPE TO DO JUST THAT. FOR LOCKED HIM UP. IT ...
To learn more about the negative impact of people dressing up as hula dancers, BuzzFeed recently spoke to Chelei. "Hula dancers are greatly sexualized in the entertainment industry and Hollywood ...
Nalani Kanaka‘ole-Zane, revered kumu hula of Halau o Kekuhi, cultural matriarch and veteran judge of Merrie Monarch Festival ...
The youngest daughter of Edith Kanakaʻole was dedicated to preserving and practicing ancient Hawaiian traditions.