VOLCANO, Hawaii -- On the wind-swept rim of one of the world's most active volcanoes, dancers in raffia skirts swayed to music and chants as they prepared for the Merrie Monarch, the Olympics of hula ...

The lobby of the Hyatt in Poi‘pu was jammed with people eager to see the powerful male hula of the Na Kane O Keoneloa. Leilani Rivera Low, herself a legendary hula dancer was fabulous onstage at the ...

The Merrie Monarch Festival hula competition is an almost overwhelming barrage of sights and sounds and scents and people. But one thing you can count on: When the kane dance, the crowd becomes ...

On the wind-swept rim of one of the world's most active volcanoes, dancers in raffia skirts sway to music and chants as they prepare for the Merrie Monarch, the Olympics of hula competition. Among ...

Keo Woolford won't stand still for having Island culture "bastardized." The Hawaii-born performer is too busy challenging racial and sexual stereotypes to a dance off in his acclaimed one-man show ...

VOLCANO, Hawaii - On the wind-swept rim of one of the world's most active volcanoes, dancers in raffia skirts sway to music and chants as they prepare for the Merrie Monarch, the Olympics of hula ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — There were gasps and moans of empathetic pain on a recent night at New York City Center, as the audience watched a female dancer from the Australian troupe Circa walk all over her ...

Award-winning kumu hula and singer O’Brian Eselu has died. He was 56. Eselu died unexpectedly at his home in Halawa. He went to sleep and was found dead in his bed this morning, a friend said. Eselu ...

"Celebrate Hawai'i," the National Museum of the American Indian's third annual Hawaiian cultural festival, is this weekend, and the Brothers Cazimero, internationally-known Hawaiian musicians from ...

In tandem with the PBS film Kumu Hina, we created this Spotify playlist compiling some of the greatest Hawaiian music, from Hula to slack guitar, ukulele, and beyond. And yes, we also couldn’t resist ...

Burn your grass skirt. Hula has graduated to velvet dresses, corporate sponsorship. Yet even as its worldwide sponsorship grows, it hasn't lost its roots On a balmy November evening last year at ...