As the women built a thrumming rhythm from their ipu heke and began to chant the oli, the Hula Halau ‘O Nalua  and ‘Ote’a ...

LOVED ONES. IT WAS A LOT TO PROCESS. I’M STILL PROCESSING IT. I HONESTLY CRY EVERY DAY FOR SACRAMENTO RESIDENT ANNA MANZANO. THE DEATH AND DEVASTATION FROM THE WILDFIRES IN MAUI HITS CLOSE TO HOME.

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 ...

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 ...