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 ...
After the world’s most popular hula event was canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Maui’s Cierra Mei Ling Hau’olimaikalani Pagaduan Chow was honored to step onstage again for the 58th ...
In Hawaiian, mana wahine translates to “powerful women,” and as a panel of experts worked to select Hawaii’s Women of the Century, they kept coming back to this phrase. Did this woman motivate and ...
Alema Ebana dances with his hula group, Hālau Kekuaokalāʻauʻalaʻiliahi, at the 2021 Merrie Monarch Festival. This hula told the story of the orator and athlete Naihe, whose skillfulness in surfing ...
The 61st Annual Merrie Monarch Festival shifted into high gear Wednesday night with the Ho‘ike, an exhibition of hula and folk dance from around the Pacific Rim at the Edith Kanaka‘ole Multi-Purpose ...
A 23-year-old registered nurse from Kauai was crowned Miss Aloha Hula 2025 Thursday night. Jaedyn Janae Puahaulani Pavao of Halau Ka Lei Mokihana o Leina‘ala took home the most prestigious award that ...