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 ...

MAUI, Hawaii – Clipped into hair and strung into leis, fresh plumerias fill the banquet hall with a sweet scent. Soon, the dim stage lights brighten and the audience quiets. A group of 10 or so ...

With flowers around their necks, wrists, feet, waist, and in their hair, the barefoot students at the School of Hula in Beaverton rehearse. And smile. Lisa Chang, founder and instructor at Hula Halau ...

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 ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii’s first Cirque du Soleil production has put out a casting call for hula dancers who are based on Oahu. The company is looking for dancers 18 and older to join the ...

Following the first-ever kickboxing event sanctioned by the World Boxing Council in Hawaii, an island athlete is gearing up for the largest kickboxing tournament on the continent. The Annual Muay Thai ...

When someone mentions “Hawaii,” several images might come to mind: white, sandy beaches, sweet-smelling tropical flowers, whole roasted pigs and, of course, hula. But even today, there are those who ...

Reporting from Honolulu — “We bend our knees to humble oneself,” my kumu, or hula teacher, said as the eight women swayed their hips. I had been taking hula classes in Northern California for months, ...

Decades before Hawaii would join the United States, there Hawaiian Room was already bringing the spirit of aloha to New York at the Hotel Lexington. Though it’s been closed since 1966, the famous hula ...