Hula For Everyone VHS Video
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Each lesson progresses from simple movements to those of increased difficulty and speed. "Mirror-image" is used designed to allow the dancer to follow each lesson in a mirror-like fashion. Learn 4 Hula Songs: Dance Hula Girl, Blue Hawai'i, Pua Iliahi, Hawaiian Wedding Song. Learn 6 basic steps and it's variations: Kaholo, Ka'o, Kawelu, Kahela, 'Ami, Lele
BACKGROUND ON "HULA": To Hawaiians, hula or Hawaiian dance, is as much a celebration of life as it is a proud statement of cultural identity. According to legend, hula originated when Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire, commanded her younger sister Laka to dance. Schools were begun in honor of the goddess of the dance and temples were dedicated to her. Dancers lived on the temple grounds, subjected to strenuous training regimes and kapu (taboos) befitting the sacred art of hula. Hula was the method in which ancient Hawaiians passed along the stories and legends of their culture to subsequent generations. Hula kahiko, or ancient hula, uses dance and chanting to relate the proud and somber history, customs, ceremonies and traditions of ancient Hawaii and her people. Hula auwana, or modern hula, is the dance form most people are familiar with, combining dance and music for a more playful, joyous and spirited recounting of contemporary life in the islands.
Missionaries who arrived in the islands in the 1820s thought the hula to be a little too suggestive and outlawed it as a pagan practice. However, during the reign of King David Kalakaua (1874-1891), there was a resurgeance of the old Hawaiian customs, including sports activities and hula. "Hula is the language of the heart and therefore the heartbeat of the Hawaiian people," he once said.
Today, people from different cultures and all walks of life eagerly spend hours researching chants and practicing dance techniques as part of a hula halau or house of hula instruction, perpetuating the respect, love and sharing that are as essential to this dance art as the movements, words and music.
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BACKGROUND ON "HULA": To Hawaiians, hula or Hawaiian dance, is as much a celebration of life as it is a proud statement of cultural identity. According to legend, hula originated when Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire, commanded her younger sister Laka to dance. Schools were begun in honor of the goddess of the dance and temples were dedicated to her. Dancers lived on the temple grounds, subjected to strenuous training regimes and kapu (taboos) befitting the sacred art of hula. Hula was the method in which ancient Hawaiians passed along the stories and legends of their culture to subsequent generations. Hula kahiko, or ancient hula, uses dance and chanting to relate the proud and somber history, customs, ceremonies and traditions of ancient Hawaii and her people. Hula auwana, or modern hula, is the dance form most people are familiar with, combining dance and music for a more playful, joyous and spirited recounting of contemporary life in the islands.
Missionaries who arrived in the islands in the 1820s thought the hula to be a little too suggestive and outlawed it as a pagan practice. However, during the reign of King David Kalakaua (1874-1891), there was a resurgeance of the old Hawaiian customs, including sports activities and hula. "Hula is the language of the heart and therefore the heartbeat of the Hawaiian people," he once said.
Today, people from different cultures and all walks of life eagerly spend hours researching chants and practicing dance techniques as part of a hula halau or house of hula instruction, perpetuating the respect, love and sharing that are as essential to this dance art as the movements, words and music.
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