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 ...

COURTESY HULA PRESERVATION SOCIETY From left, Hale Rowland, TeMoana Makolo, Manu Kanemura Bentley (seated), Lei Becker Furtado and Kimo Mansfield stood with Lei Hulu group members in white and other ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hawaiian hula takes centre stage at the Pasifika Festival this year, with one of the event's largest groups to take the stage travelling here especially. More than 150 dancers and family members ...

SAN RAMON, Calif. -- "Hula is the language of the heart, and therefore the heartbeat of the Hawaiian people," says Desiree Elder, a Hula instructor with the Polynesian dance revue, Island Spice. "Many ...

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (WCIV) — The Goose Creek Library is all set to host a Polynesian dance class as the branch prepares to bring the culture of Hawaii to the Lowcountry. Their new Intro to Hula Class ...

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 ...

E Pele, Pele, Pele (Hawaiian drama-hula) --Kamapuaa (ceremonial temple dance) --Hoi Kealoha i niahau (dance) -- Anoai (hula uliuli) --Lake e (Oli or alter [sic ...