When Kamaile Hamada found out last June that his group had been accepted into the world’s most prestigious hula competition, the first person he wanted to tell was his former hula partner, Sweetie ...

She is everywhere, the iconic image of a hula dancer -- in a grass skirt and bra top made of coconut shells, with hips that shimmy frantically to a ukelele song. We see her in Disney movies, in pseudo ...

I saw my father dancing in a grass skirt for the first time last week, on Facebook of all places. Patty Colletti Barth, who lived directly across the street from me growing up, posted it. Dad and his ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BERTHOUD — When it comes to “worship hula,” coconut-shell bikini tops, flimsy grass skirts and aggressive booty shaking are out. Instead, the hula dancers in ...

To learn more about the negative impact of people dressing up as hula dancers, BuzzFeed recently spoke to Chelei. "Hula dancers are greatly sexualized in the entertainment industry and Hollywood ...

When you think of hula dancing, do you relate it to a dance done by girls in grass skirts to ukelele music? Hula is performed at resorts all over Hawaii, but the significance of the dance is much more ...

The turn is the latest sign of a Native Hawaiian renaissance The misconceptions come from the way Hawaii is marketed and presented to outsiders Many of the images can be traced to the arrival of tiki ...

Did Hawaiian dancers traditionally wear grass skirts? Illustration by Salina Perera Did Hawaiian dancers traditionally wear grass skirts? Christopher Maurer | Lacey, Washington Pacific Islanders did ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - It was a strange mash-up of arctic and tropic at the Penn's Landing ice skating rink Sunday. Hula dancers entertained skaters who'd braved one of the coldest days of the year. The ...

When someone mentions “Hawaii,” several images might come to mind: white, sandy beaches, sweet-smelling tropical flowers, whole roasted pigs and, of course, hula. But even today, there are those who ...

Halau o Keikiali’i will perform “The Sacred Hula: Ka Wa Hula — Hula Through Time” on Feb. 22 in Bothell. Before first contact with Westerners in 1778, Hawaiians didn’t need written language. They had ...