You think hula is just wiggling your hips? Think again.
I really knew next to nothing about hula as an art form. But here’s a video that taught me a bit. Enjoy!:
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I really knew next to nothing about hula as an art form. But here’s a video that taught me a bit. Enjoy!:
Great Big Story also has a video for the guys– about “Telling Warrior Stories with Hula,” showcasing dancers from a male hula school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFT-M18N2A4&ab_channel=GreatBigStory
How beautiful.
You inspired me. I just finished reading about Captain Cook’s voyages of discovery to the Pacific South Seas in the eighteenth century. He came across many many island nations that had never seen or even heard of a European. Same for Cook and his men. Of all the native dances that they saw, the Tahitians were the wildest and most erotic. Watch this by the Royal troup from Tahiti.
https://youtu.be/6U45fSXKE9I
Beautiful, exactly in time to the drums, and very skilled.
Dance just doesn’t cut it. Girl singers are preferable.
A Hawaiian ballet. Performance art. Athletic. Beautiful.
Just very beautiful and very hot. I wish there was a video of her whole hula but that seems to be lacking
Hula is wonderful – all the variations – from the most serious to ‘party kine’. Hawaii still has an old fashioned sort of ‘sing for your supper’ culture, so learning even a simple hula is encouraged. When my kids were still in public school each class did a hula for the annual May Day pageant, it was the highlight of the school year. And, of course the kids are just adorable. But ‘da bes’ hula, the one everyone looked forward too at the end of the progaram, was the teachers hula!
Hula is wonderful – all the variations – from the most serious to ‘party kine’. Hawaii still has an old fashioned sort of ‘sing for your supper’ culture, so learning even a simple hula is encouraged. When my kids were still in public school each class did a hula for the annual May Day pageant, it was the highlight of the school year. And, of course the kids are just adorable. But ‘da bes’ hula, the one everyone looked forward too at the end of the program, was the Teacher’s hula!
Opps! Edit turned into a double post.
Just lovely, Neo … We’re in Maui right now. And of course, the irony — and good fortune — is that I’m seeing genuine hula on your home page. Truly beautiful, graceful and inspiring.
There are some clips of various hula styles in this promotional video about the Polynesian Cultural Center too – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ2bh-4Hx9c
LOL.
Neo, I know you like dance for the sake of dance. I know you figure it’s an art of some kind, and has real, quasi-spiritual even, value.
I don’t understand it, but don’t dispute it just because I cannot understand it.
And I also know better than to respond to click bait type YouTube images; especially when you Neo, have already made it perfectly clear what the video was about.
It was about, so you clearly implied, Hula as a kind of art, and not as an excuse to present pleasantly developed females gyrating on a beach while wearing gauze-like tops.
I was convinced of all that before, doing what I knew better than to do, I clicked and had – even accounting for an almost immediate fast forward reaction – fat guys with torches (one guy of any kind being too much) , and hula schools,and make-up, and cultural identity gibberish thrown in my face – instead of wiggling hula girls.
Well, live and learn … again … and again …