For many people, hula is just a dance. But at Hula Maryland in Crofton, women like Joanna Capezzuto say hula is something much deeper, steeped in culture, storytelling and sisterhood. The dance ...

The hula dancers gathered behind the stage, their blouses white, skirts purple and feet bare. For months, they had prepared for this performance. On the other side of the closed curtain at John R.

Although the arrival of Westerners resulted in the suppression of hula and other elements of Hawaiian culture, the Hawaiian Renaissance of the 1970s led to the revitalization of its practice and other ...

Now, in the same theater where a young Bruno Mars once perfected his Elvis impersonation, Polynesian culture is front and center. “‘Auana,” which means “to wander,” was never going to be like any ...

As the women built a thrumming rhythm from their drums and began to chant while others danced, the Hula Halau ‘O Nalua and ‘Ote’a ‘Api School of Polynesian Dance seemed to teleport from the interior ...

My late grandmother’s 10 acres of wild rainforest land, off a dirt road near Hāna, Maui, were part of a larger land grant given to our family more than 175 years ago by King Kamehameha III. When I ...

A bride's surprise hula dance solo left her Hawaiian groom in awe. For years, Oʻahu-born Austin Rodrigues-Ganigan, 29, jokingly reminded his then-girlfriend, content creator Sofia Bella, 28, that it ...