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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.”
[Story by Mike Foley, photo by Barry Markowitz, originally published in Kaleo, November 19, 1998] Kahuku’s D-men didn’t let pouring rain stop them from keeping Waianae scoreless during the OIA title match at Aloha Stadium Kahuku High School’s unstoppable, nationally-ranked varsity Red Raiders finished out a perfect 1998 12–0 football season during a downpour at […]
[Blog entry and video by Mike Foley: Originally published June 30, 2009] An earlier blog entry “inspired” me to dig out my old Hi-8 video tapes and put together a little web video of our Alaskan adventure in June 2001. After a lifetime of still photography, I was just starting to get into video at this […]
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published in the PCC Imua Polenesia newsletter, January 2008] PCC Promo Team dancer and Laie resident Tessie Toluta’u [pictured at right during the 2007 PCC Moanikeala Hula Festival] recently swept all categories to win the title of Miss South Pacific in Apia, Samoa. For her talent she performed Tongan […]
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” February 13, 2009] A prominent Shakespeare scholar who is on campus co-directing the Brigham Young University Hawaii Fine Arts production of Twelth Night, detailed to students in the February 12 Honors Program colloquium in McKay 101 how 18th century-through-modern editors of Shakespeare’s […]
