LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It's a lesson in self-defense you won't want to miss. Michelle Manu is experienced in hula dance, martial arts, and weapons making. She is in Louisville this weekend presenting the ...

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Having spent the past decade traveling nonstop, Blaine Kamalani Kia said he is looking forward to staying home a little more and focusing on his first passion: music. Kia celebrates three kumu hula ...

Hula teacher Christinia Pualani Lee was about to turn 102 and her students wanted to throw a party despite the quarantine, a party befitting a beloved instructor who was born the year of the 1918 ...

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 ...

OAK PARK, Ill. -- One Chicago-area Hawaiian dance school hopes to leave a legacy. "Hula is life. Hula is everything you see, taste, touch, feel," June Ryushin Tanoue said. Halau i Ka Pono is a ...

When I went to Hawaii looking for the real hula -- something more authentic than "I'm just a little brown girl in a little grass skirt in a little grass shack in Hawaii" -- I hardly expected to find ...

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 ...