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 ...
Above, hula dancers Kristen Enomoto, left, Joshua Julian and Agnes Brown performed Thursday during a news conference for the new Kilohana Hula Show. The new performances, presented by the Council for ...
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 ...
Halau o Keikiali’i will perform “The Sacred Hula: Ka Wa Hula — Hula Through Time” on Feb. 22 in Bothell. Before first contact with Westerners in 1778, Hawaiians didn’t need written language. They had ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Well-known hula dancer Beverly Noa, a former Miss Hawaii who has been described as "hula royalty," died Thursday. She was 84. Noa is perhaps best known for her graceful ...
With flowers around their necks, wrists, feet, waist, and in their hair, the barefoot students at the School of Hula in Beaverton rehearse. And smile. Lisa Chang, founder and instructor at Hula Halau ...
Reporting from Honolulu — “We bend our knees to humble oneself,” my kumu, or hula teacher, said as the eight women swayed their hips. I had been taking hula classes in Northern California for months, ...
Hula O Na Keiki is Maui's only hula competition for children that seeks to perpetuate Hawaiian culture The competition pushes students to reflect on what it means to be Hawaiian and practice hula, an ...