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 ...

Maui’s Shalia Kapuau’ionalani Kikuyo Kamakaokalani won the Miss Aloha Hula competition late Thursday night at the 55th annual Merrie Monarch Festival in Hilo. The 21-year-old Haliimaile resident ...

Jasmine Kaleihiwa Dunlap was on fire the second she stepped on stage Thursday night to deliver a chant of praise for Hi‘i­aka, the youngest sister of Pele. Her voice was a force to be reckoned with.

When Kamaile Hamada found out last June that his group had been accepted into the world’s most prestigious hula competition, the first person he wanted to tell was his former hula partner, Sweetie ...

When you think of a hula dancer, what do you picture? A female dancer, most likely young. Long, flowing hair, a warm, inviting smile and softly swaying hips. But when I started dancing hula, nearly 15 ...

I SWUNG MY HIPS gently side to side, doing my best to glide smoothly while doing the kaholo in my hula class. Fourteen-month-old Owen wailed. Not that I blame him. I had borrowed him from his mom for ...

My grandmother, a beautiful hula dancer. Hula runs in my blood. When my Papa saw my Grandma Becky dancing hula one night in a dance hall, armed with her ukulele, mu'u mu'u, and beautiful smile, he ...

Hula instructor Akiko Colton spends her day living and breathing the ancient Hawaiian dance known as hula in her Eugene studio. “It’s part of my life, so I cannot just take it out. My blood needs hula ...

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 ...

Maui Iokepa-Purdy won Mr. Hulu Maui in the 2024 Kū Mai Ka Hula contest. The 18th annual Kū Mai Ka Hula will be Friday and Saturday at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. Courtesy photo Maui’s adult hula ...

When you think of a hula dancer, what do you picture? A female dancer, most likely young. Long, flowing hair, a warm, inviting smile and softly swaying hips. But when I started dancing hula, nearly 15 ...