“Every print has a feeling, a reining in back to Hawaii,” said Awai, 85. “My feeling was I really wanted to do clothes for local ... His “male hula dancer” print shows hula kane dressed ...

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 ...

who endorsed a line of aloha shirts, shows off a pattern featuring hula dancers and palm trees in 1939. Crosby released several albums of Hawaiian music, recording such songs as "Sweet Leilani ...

Mele Look of the Department of Native Hawaiian Health at the UH John A. Burns School of Medicine discussed her research into ...

With her flower crown and grass skirt, the hula girl has been synonymous with Hawaiian hospitality since cruise ships first docked in Honolulu in the 1920s. Even today, exoticized images of these ...

But hula is, in fact, an ancient and often sacred dance indigenous to Hawaii. For the past 60 years, some of the best hula schools in the United States have gathered in the sleepy town of Hilo on ...

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.

AND HULA IS MY WAY OF KEEPING MY CONNECTION TO MY CULTURE BECAUSE I. HULA IS MORE THAN JUST A HAWAIIAN DANCE. CINDY CALLS IT THE HEARTBEAT OF HER CULTURE. FOR YEARS, HAWAIIANS DID NOT HAVE A ...