Luau are synonymous with going on a trip to Hawaii, but not all of them are authentic. Here's the history behind an authentic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

There’s no denying the irresistible allure of hula. Like India’s kathak dance or the mimed sections of classical ballets, when gesture rides on a gently or aggressively propelled body accompanied by ...

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 ...

Nalani Kanaka‘ole-Zane, revered kumu hula of Halau o Kekuhi, cultural matriarch and veteran judge of Merrie Monarch Festival hula competitions, died Saturday in Hilo. She was 79. Federal prosecutions ...