Daily Bruin columnist Christi Carras’ limited dance background consists of bingeing episodes of “So You Think You Can Dance,” grapevining her way through high school show choir and stumbling through ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Many people are using online apps like Zoom to talk to another another in isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. Kumu hula are using those online apps to teach ...

Kumu hula Pattye Wright gives hula lessons over Zoom while dancers, Kailuana Oshiro, left, and Kaipo Parker take their lessons in person. Hula instructor Kanoe Miller conducts classes from her living ...

PORT ANGELES — Kumu Hula Mokihana Melendez and Alaka’i Makana Caro will present a lesson on hula dancing at several North Olympic Library branches this weekend. Melendez and Caro will explain the ...

SANTA CRUZ >> To Mehana Thomas, hula is more than grass skirts, leis and hip movements. The Santa Cruz-based hula teacher sees the medium as a powerful form of storytelling, a means to celebrate ...

My passion for Hawaiian culture took almost 30 years to hit me like a wave on the Banzai Pipeline. I honeymooned in Hawaii and loved it, but my kids were already grown by the time that passion was ...

It was a typical gray morning, but inside the Pacific Science Center, it was all about sunnier skies. Hawaii took over a center hall Saturday — with hula-dance lessons, lei making and ocean-navigation ...

Hula has been danced here in the islands for generations. But when it began it wasn’t the ladies doing the dancing. “It actually started with the guys and the warriors. They would dance Hula to tell ...

The Mele Kini Polynesian Dance Studio was established in 1975 by Dottie Pranzatelli and Mary Jayne Anspach. Pranzatelli began her dancing career as a student with the Kealoha Studios, now located in ...

There is something about the words “hula dance” that makes me long for home. Even though the words originated in faraway southern islands, they somehow evoke a feeling of nostalgia for my hometown. I ...