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 ...

Among the 20 winners of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship announced Wednesday were scientists, engineers, composers, legal scholars—and one hula dancer. Patrick Makuakāne, a 62-year-old ...

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 ...

Alema Ebana dances with his hula group, Hālau Kekuaokalāʻauʻalaʻiliahi, at the 2021 Merrie Monarch Festival. This hula told the story of the orator and athlete Naihe, whose skillfulness in surfing ...

Jayda Lum Lung will dance a traditional hula in honor of Lahaina wildfire victims at Hawaii’s biggest hula competition of the year. Her hand movements will flow gracefully to symbolize the winds, ...

KAIELUA, Hawaii — Among my career aspirations, it is safe to say that “hula dancer” never rose to the top. But there I was not long ago, lunching on fish tacos at a tiny shopping plaza on the island ...

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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 ...

If you’ve ever been to the Hawaiian Islands, you may have been fortunate enough to have seen a hula performance. There are many different types of hula and hula shows across the islands, and the ...

For many people, hula is just a dance. But at Hula Maryland in Crofton, women like Joanna Capezzuto say hula is something much deeper, steeped in culture, storytelling and sisterhood. The dance ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - You’ve seen the award-winning performances of the kane of Halau Kawaiulaokala on the biggest stage for hula in the world. But for the first time ever, you’ll be seeing a ...