My grandmother, a beautiful hula dancer. Hula runs in my blood. When my Papa saw my Grandma Becky dancing hula one night in a dance hall, armed with her ukulele, mu'u mu'u, and beautiful smile, he ...
When you think of a hula dancer, what do you picture? A female dancer, most likely young. Long, flowing hair, a warm, inviting smile and softly swaying hips. But when I started dancing hula, nearly 15 ...
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 ...
Daily Bruin columnist Christi Carras’ limited dance background consists of bingeing episodes of “So You Think You Can Dance,” grapevining her way through high school show choir and stumbling through ...
CARLSBAD – More than 100 people packed the auditorium at the Carlsbad Senior Center to see the Halau Hula O Pualani Holiday Show, under the direction of Christinia Lee. Lee, 89, teaches hula at the ...
Hula dancing, beautiful to watch, is a substantial workout. In the new “Island Girl Fitness Workout for Beginners” series of DVDs and videos (Naturaljourneys, 2004), dance, cardio and strength ...
Beverly Dye is a good person to tell you the difference between hula dancing and belly dancing. The leader of a hula troupe based at the Senior Friendship Center, Dye taught belly dancing before ...
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 ...