Not much. And that was fifth-grader Stephanie Casperson's intellectual challenge Wednesday as she sought to compose a limerick about her pet. The word hamster was hanging there at the end of her first ...

Fian’te Kuinanialoha Rivera woke at 4 a.m. Saturday from a dream about Hula dancing. She lay awake after that, thinking about the moves and the music. Hula dancing, for all its sultry and exotic ...

Beverly Dye is a good person to tell you the difference between hula dancing and belly dancing. The leader of a hula troupe based at the Senior Friendship Center, Dye taught belly dancing before ...

If hula dancing were a sport, Keali’i Ceballos would be Phil Jackson. For six years running, Ceballos’ West L.A.-based hula school, Halau Keali’i O Nalani, has walked away with the top prize at E Hula ...

When you think of a hula dancer, what do you picture? A female dancer, most likely young. Long, flowing hair, a warm, inviting smile and softly swaying hips. But when I started dancing hula, nearly 15 ...

The spirit of aloha came to Laguna Woods as the annual Hula Hiehie O Nā Kūpuna festival, or “Elegant Hula of the Elders,” returned after a two-year pandemic hiatus. Residents were treated to a day ...

For Native Hawaiians, the origins of hula are deeply spiritual and rooted in Hawaii’s creation stories and the history and culture of their kūpuna or ancestors. Many sacred dances have been passed ...

Before the chanting can begin, before the praying and the dancing and the gourd-drumming, Sue Kerzisnik must rearrange her living room furniture. She wouldn’t want a hula dancer tripping over the ...

I SWUNG MY HIPS gently side to side, doing my best to glide smoothly while doing the kaholo in my hula class. Fourteen-month-old Owen wailed. Not that I blame him. I had borrowed him from his mom for ...

When you think of a hula dancer, what do you picture? A female dancer, most likely young. Long, flowing hair, a warm, inviting smile and softly swaying hips. But when I started dancing hula, nearly 15 ...