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 ...

Above, hula dancers Kristen Enomoto, left, Joshua Julian and Agnes Brown performed Thursday during a news conference for the new Kilohana Hula Show. The new performances, presented by the Council for ...

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 ...

Luau performers scrambled to their rehearsal positions with the playful, nimble sound of the ukelele on one side of the room and the mighty beats of tribal drums on the other. Each year, the Luau is a ...

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, ...

When I went to Hawaii looking for the real hula -- something more authentic than "I'm just a little brown girl in a little grass skirt in a little grass shack in Hawaii" -- I hardly expected to find ...

What would a trip to Hawaii be without a luau? We may never find out: Each island offers a plethora of the traditional feasts. The components may be similar -- a buffet of traditional Hawaiian and ...

Hula O Na Keiki is Maui's only hula competition for children that seeks to perpetuate Hawaiian culture The competition pushes students to reflect on what it means to be Hawaiian and practice hula, an ...