enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Hula - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hula

    Hula (/ ˈ h uː l ə /) is a Hawaiian dance form expressing chant (oli) [1] or song . It was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Native Hawaiians who settled there. The hula dramatizes or portrays the words of the oli or mele in a visual dance form. There are many sub-styles of hula, with the two main categories being Hula ʻAuana and ...

  3. Nāpua Greig - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nāpua_Greig

    Jaye Nāpua Greig-Nakasone [1] (born March 4, 1974), known professionally as Nāpua Greig, is a Hawaiian musician, vocalist, songwriter, record producer, kumu hula (hula teacher), and educator from Maui, Hawaii. Known primarily for her contributions as kumu hula of Hālau Nā Lei Kaumaka O Uka, she arranges traditional Hawaiian music as well ...

  4. Hālau hula - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hālau_hula

    A hālau hula (Hawaiian pronunciation: [haːˈlɐw ˈhulə]) is a school or hall in which the Hawaiian dance form called hula is taught. 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.

  5. Maʻiki Aiu Lake - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maʻiki_Aiu_Lake

    In a Hālau Hula though, it is organized so information from the Kumu Hula is directly given to the students. Students of the Hālau Hula are expected to pass down this information that they are given from a specific lineage of Kumu Hula to the next generation. [8] In 1972, Ma’iki advertised for a public Kumu Hula class. This was the first ...

  6. Culture of the Native Hawaiians - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Native...

    Hula kahiko performance in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. The culture of the Native Hawaiians encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms practiced by the original residents of the Hawaiian islands, including their knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits.

  7. Mahi Beamer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahi_Beamer

    Edwin Mahiʻai (Mahi) Copp Beamer (December 5, 1928 – July 14, 2017) was an American tenor falsetto singer, composer and hula dancer of Hawaiian ancestry. He was born in Honolulu in the Territory of Hawaii and is the grandson of Helen Desha Beamer. His father, Milton Hoʻolulu Desha Beamer Sr. was her son.

  8. Hula hoop - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hula_hoop

    The hula hoop craze swept the world, dying out in the 1980s except in China and Russia, where hula hooping and hoop manipulation were adopted by traditional circuses and rhythmic gymnasts. In the mid to late 1990s there was a re-emergence of hula hooping, generally referred to as either "hoopdance" or simply "hooping" to distinguish it from the ...

  9. Winona Beamer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winona_Beamer

    Beamer was briefly expelled in 1937 from the Kamehameha Schools for performing a standing hula. [2] When Kamehameha Schools was established through the 1883 will of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, [7] the original trustees of the Bishop Estate were Charles R. Bishop, Charles McEwen Hyde, Samuel M. Damon, Charles Montague Cooke, and William Owen Smith, who were either missionaries, or had ties to those ...