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 ...

The Oakland-based Academy of Hawaiian Arts’ Kane Hula dancers are “notorious” for their attention-grabbing performances. Invariably, there is a moment — when school founder Mark Keali’i Ho’omalu, ...

Christy Leina’ala Lassiter announces the release of a new album of traditional Hawaiian hula songs. The album is titled “Kou Lima Nani E,” which means “your beautiful hands.” She is accompanied by Big ...

The hula dancers gathered behind the stage, their blouses white, skirts purple and feet bare. For months, they had prepared for this performance. On the other side of the closed curtain at John R.

As the sun set over the misty town of Hilo, Hawaii, on April 6, about 4,000 people stood up from their seats in the Edith Kanakaʻole stadium and joined hands. They swayed in unison, their voices ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Oakland-based Academy of Hawaiian Arts’ Kane Hula dancers are “notorious” for their attention-grabbing performances. “Every time they get on stage, they leave the audience wowed. They are fierce,” ...

A bride's surprise hula dance solo left her Hawaiian groom in awe. For years, Oʻahu-born Austin Rodrigues-Ganigan, 29, jokingly reminded his then-girlfriend, content creator Sofia Bella, 28, that it ...

Thirteen-year-old Kekoa Arucan performs a playful opening hula of the George Na’ope Hula Festival, set to a song originally composed for the opening of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu, on Friday.

Hula O Na Keiki is Maui's only hula competition for children that seeks to perpetuate Hawaiian culture The competition pushes students to reflect on what it means to be Hawaiian and practice hula, an ...