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 ...

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 ...

The Annapolis-area residents sing, dance and chant with near-flawless rhythm and cadence, displaying traditions and cultures from America’s only island state. They are members of one of the hula ...

If you're interested in learning to dance don't be afraid to take that first step, even if you have the proverbial two left feet. Here's a quick tour -- from Afro-Brazilian to belly dance -- of what's ...

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 ...

Hawaii is oozing with culture and traditions that have been kept alive for centuries. And how sweet it is that some of the magic of Polynesia is right here in central Indiana. Hawaii’s cultural ...