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Hula kahiko performance in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park Hula in Hawaii. Kumu hula Frank Kawaikapuokalani Hewett performs during a ceremony transferring control over the island of Kahoʻolawe from the U.S. Navy to the state. Hula (/ ˈ h uː l ə /) is a Hawaiian dance form expressing chant (oli) [1] or song .
A basic figure is the very basic step that defines the character of a dance. Often it is called just thus: "basic movement", "basic step" or the like. For some dances it is sufficient to know the basic step performed in different handhold [broken anchor] s and dance positions [broken anchor] to enjoy it socially.
The term comes from hālau, literally, "long house, as for canoes or hula instruction"; "meeting house" [1], and hula, a Polynesian dance form of the Hawaiian Islands. Today, a hālau hula is commonly known as a school or formal institution for hula where the primary responsibility of the people within the hālau is to perpetuate the cultural ...
ʻUlīʻulī are used in traditional Hawaiian hula dances. Hula dancers make rattling sounds with the ʻulīʻulī by shaking or tapping the base against the body.Hula kahiko are performed to honor the gods and entertain the royal court while preserving orally transmitted narratives and genealogies.
Pāʻani Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian: Pāʻani Hawaiʻi, also anglicized as "Paani Hawaii") or Pāʻani for short, are Hawaiian play, games, and contests. Most pāʻani Hawaiʻi place pertinence on language and chanting as part of the pāʻani, excepting only lele koali (Hawaiian: kowali ), a Hawaiian swinging game based around either a koali vine or a ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Dance in Hawaii" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
In Trum’s Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends, page 187 he tells of a drum called the "pahu ka`eke" in the story of Ai Kanaka. Below is what is widely believed today among hula practitioners. The pahu is a traditional musical instrument found in Polynesia: Hawaii, Tahiti, Cook Islands, Samoa, and Tokelau. Carved from a single ...
"Hula is the Art of Hawaiian Dance, expressing all that we see, smell, hear, taste, touch and feel." "People who don't know how to dance, but who have a loving spirit, can be cultivated to be dancers.” "Take what I have given you and make it better." "Remember, you learn, but it is not yours to give until your teacher allows you that right."