At most fitness classes, you’ll hear pumping, upbeat music. When it comes to working out with Bright Eyes Dance and Entertainment, the melodies take on more of an island feel. Instructor Dorothy ...

A bride's surprise hula dance solo left her Hawaiian groom in awe. For years, Oʻahu-born Austin Rodrigues-Ganigan, 29, jokingly reminded his then-girlfriend, content creator Sofia Bella, 28, that it ...

With her flower crown and grass skirt, the hula girl has been synonymous with Hawaiian hospitality since cruise ships first docked in Honolulu in the 1920s. Even today, exoticized images of these ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The 31st annual Hula ʻOni E Festival is returning to Waikiki on Aug. 29 through Aug. 31, putting hula on full display at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Organizers anticipate ...

Joan Anderson didn't invent the Hula-Hoop. She didn't have anything to do with production of the plastic toy. But the Hula-Hoop as we know it may never have been a fad without her. Anderson, who died ...

The inaugural Mele Hula Festival happens this month as award-winning hula hālau compete not just in the realm of hula (dance) but also in mele (song) and haku mele (composition). Kahuli Leo Leʻa’s ...

A 23-year-old registered nurse from Kauai was crowned Miss Aloha Hula 2025 Thursday night. Jaedyn Janae Puahaulani Pavao of Halau Ka Lei Mokihana o Leina‘ala took home the most prestigious award that ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- “The Return of Kapaemahu” presents a free hula show revealing the stories of Kapaemahu every Wednesday at Kuhio Beach. This first-ever hula show is a “unique monument to ...

Explore the vigorous training and deep cultural roots of male hula dancing, a powerful Hawaiian tradition. $2K tariff checks would go to ‘working families’: Bessent Republicans clash over surprise ...

Alema Ebana dances with his hula group, Hālau Kekuaokalāʻauʻalaʻiliahi, at the 2021 Merrie Monarch Festival. This hula told the story of the orator and athlete Naihe, whose skillfulness in surfing ...