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The Kamaluwehiokapalai halau hula from Japan
Story and photos by Mike Foley
[First published in the Polynesian Cultural Center blog, February 2017]
As it has for the past several years, the Polynesian Cultural Center hosted its annual Moanikeala Hula Festival on February 4, 2017, in a perfect setting — under the monkeypod tree in the Hawaiian Village. [Read more…]
[Story and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published in the BYU–Hawaii electronic “newsroom” on 27 February 2009]
Cy M. Bridges [pictured at right], Theater Director for the Polynesian Cultural Center and a noted Hawaiian cultural expert, shared his love, passion and expertise on historical and genealogical aspects of modern hula with Brigham Young University Hawaii students during the February 25, 2009, Honors Program colloquium in McKay 101.
“The hula was really our hard drive — our textbook,” said Bridges, who in addition to his work at the PCC is an entertainer, musician, genealogist, kumu hula or master, and periodic judge for the well-known Merrie Monarch Hula Festival in Hilo. “Everything was committed to memory, because there was no written language; so we chanted, sang and danced about our lives.”
[Originally written by Mike Foley in August 2008] BYU-Hawaii ICS prof publishes chapter on ‘shifting role’ of Church Dr. Ethan Yorgason [pictured at right: photo by Mike Foley], an adjunct assistant professor in the history and International Cultural Studies geography professor at BYU-Hawaii, contributed a chapter on the “shifting role of Latter-day Saints as the quintessential […]
The first sign on Friday evening, December 26, was a little flicker of the lights. I remember saying to my wife, Sally, I wonder if someone hit a telephone pole somewhere down the highway. Then a few minutes later the lights went out — then soon enough all over Oahu. Yup, for the second time […]
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, March 29, 2005] Cheryl LaMont [pictured at right], President and CEO of Dot C Software — a Kailua, Hawaii business that does photorealistic 3D computer generated imagery (cgi) for Hollywood and other major clients around the world — urged students interested in […]
Jolene Kanahele of Laie recently wrote a poignant entry on Facebook that reminded me of a somewhat related experience years ago in, of all places, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea:
