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Makuakāne is dedicated to preserving Hawaiian language, history, and culture through his choreography and hālau (school), which provides classes for both adults and children. He was inspired to create Ka Leo Kānaka, The Voice of the People, in 2013 after his hālau participated in a project aimed at digitizing Hawaiian-language newspapers ...
English: These people are Polynesian dance entertainers on the island of Oahu, Hawaii Māori: ʻO kēia poʻe he poʻe hoʻonanea hula Polenekia ma ka mokupuni ʻo Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Date
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 .
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 ...
When she died in 1978, The New York Times wrote that she was "regarded as Hawaii's last great exponent of the sacred hula ceremony." [11] The Honolulu Advertiser wrote: "In her ancient dances, she was the poet of the Hawaiian people." [1] A mainland newspaper called her "the foremost hula dancer of the 20th century."
A Hawaiian fire knife dancer. The fire knife is a traditional Samoan cultural implement that is used in ceremonial dances. It was originally composed of a machete wrapped in towels on both ends with a portion of the blade exposed in the middle.
The Royal Hawaiian Girls Glee Club was founded as the YWCA Hawaiian Girls Glee Club c.1917 by Louise Akeo Silva (1893–1980). Known by her maiden name of Akeo until 1951, Silva followed in the footsteps of her athletic older sisters May Akeo Kamaka (1887–1936) and Amelia Akeo Guerrero (1885–1977), by joining the YWCA in 1912.
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