Everything you know about hula is wrong. Here’s what got lost amid cultural appropriation. 

Mahalo for this. Have gone through the entire cycle for 48 years. Currently my practice and Halau do not do any modern hula past the Monarchy period. I believe I may be one of the last religious practitioners as serving 2 religions does not work for me. My practice is regional and familial based my yniki and training private not public. No paper halaus or training for me after I decided to get more serious about my devotion to protecting and preserving what is left of the original purpose of Kahiko. I walked away from tourism 14 years ago and never looked back. My way of teaching is not popular as I no longer promote the Oahu vision of hula with it's missionary influence modern dance moves and military hair uts and beauty pageant fake braided hair keupi doll looks for dancers. The sameness of post statehood hula and the cheesiness I participated in is long gone in my soul. I continue to perpetuate what was shown and taught to me. I will not yield. I was glad to find this and I liked what was said. Kumu AP Halau o k KamawIlualanimoku

Their are many versions of dances in Oceana. Some islands do have what appears to be the Hollywood version of the hula dance. Tahiti and other islands claims Hawaii ripped off their dance as Hawaii is the most recently inhabitanted . Easter Island was uninhibited until about 1200-800 years ago. Some traditions say it came from other places. With no written languages until Europeans came nobody knows. Either way enjoy the product. They all have their unique flare.

similar to kathakali of kerela, India...telling a spiritual story

There's traditional Hula/Polynesian dance and the modern style catering at first to tourists. Now to everyone outside of Hawaii.

Confused... where are the Hawaiians

Wow! Love this Kumu 😊

As an old fart, ive never seen real hula. I have idea that hula stinks. At my senior center I just spent 1 1/2 hrs with fake hula with Caucasian ladies or Asian ladies with music to god bless America and tiny bubbles. Yes, I went to HI once. Totally awful. I was 4 days in Honolulu. It was like Japan town. My hotel was Japan owned and catered to Japanese businesses. Hotel was in worst part of the city, you know, drunks, homeless, old men. Me being mex American the hotel staff were hostile. I look like homeless person since I’m 80) plus, the only Polynesian/hawaiian person I saw was a greeter at Waikiki hotel. I asked where the restaurant was.,he told me off: “what ? You stupid? You can’t see it?”, etc) greeter was drunk. Naturally. Every hotel I ate at the waitresses were these blondes from California, Utah. Why? Japanese businessmen want to see blondes. I can go on and on about how the entire state is fake.

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