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Pupule
USA
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 Posted - 04/04/2003 : 10:51:35 AM
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Hula exhibit opens
Advertiser Staff and News Services (Honolulu Advertiser)
The Bishop Museum's first-ever exhibit on Hawai'i's native dance, "Hula: Dance of Poetry," opens tomorrow in the Harold K. L. Castle Memorial Building. The exhibit, which brings together artifacts, documents, films, sound recordings and photographic images to tell the story, will be on display through June 1.
It honors kupuna such as 'Iolane Luahine, Harriet Ne, Joseph Ilala'ole and Kau'i Zuttermeister. Interactive exhibits teach hula basics. And photos from halau around the world illustrate the spread of the tradition beyond Hawai'i.
At 6:30 p.m. Monday, a panel of prominent kumu hula — Winona Beamer, Pualani Kanahele, Nalani Kanaka'ole, Hokulani Holt-Padilla and John Keola Lake — will discuss "Ha Kula Iwikuamo'o (The Traditions of Hula)" in the Castle Memorial Building; free to Bishop members, $5 general public, $3 students with ID. Information: 848-4191.
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Auntie Maria
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 04/09/2003 : 03:01:11 AM
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Although our flight back to Kaua`i prevented us from attending the Monday night seminar, Bob and I did make time to view the hula exhibit this past weekend. Glorious enlargements of hula -- and kumu hula -- from the past, plus treasured costumes (one of the _original_ cellophane hula skirts!), pahu, `uli `uli, ukes 'n guitars...aahhhh!
There are several large screens and monitors scattered about, constantly running wonderful hula films -- some documentary; some purely entertaining. I was watching a film which was featuring kumu hula Vicky Holt Takamine -- when I spied her standing in front of another nearby screen watching another film. I of course zoomed over to see what had caught her attention ("Keepers of the Culture").
Y'just never know who you'll see at _this_ exhibit! 
If you'll be on O`ahu in the next month or so, do go see this very special tribute to "the dance of the islands".
-- auntie maria |
Auntie Maria
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