On stage in their grass skirts and colorful shirts, the hula dancers look like a traditional island group. But when the music starts, it's obvious this performance is anything but traditional. With ...

Hula dancers may inspire visions of paradise, with Hawaiian sunsets, floral scents and drinks in coconuts. But La Jolla High School junior Aiko Busby is looking to have it also inspire awareness of ...

Reporting from Honolulu — “We bend our knees to humble oneself,” my kumu, or hula teacher, said as the eight women swayed their hips. I had been taking hula classes in Northern California for months, ...

A MacArthur fellowship is commonly referred to as a genius grant. The 20 recipients this year include Kumu Patrick Makuakane, a master hula teacher based in San Francisco. Yeah. That Genius Grant ...

(HawaiiNewsNow) - To think that public performance of hula was banned over a century ago seems a far cry from hula as we know it today. Hula traditions are alive and strong today because of the Merrie ...

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 rates of stroke and heart disease are about four times higher for Native Hawaiians than for non-Hispanic whites, according to EurekAlert. Can a traditional dance program help? In research ...

Dan Kois: What a day it’s been for you. Have you heard from a million people asking if they have to call you a genius now? Patrick Makuakāne: I’ve gotten a lot of calls. You know, I am living my ...

Every year, with every dancer, skirt and lei in place, kumu hula Mapuana de Silva’s Halau Mohala ‘Ilima makes a strong showing at the Merrie Monarch Festival. This is the 33rd consecutive year de ...