Daily Bruin columnist Christi Carras’ limited dance background consists of bingeing episodes of “So You Think You Can Dance,” grapevining her way through high school show choir and stumbling through ...

Hula instructor Akiko Colton spends her day living and breathing the ancient Hawaiian dance known as hula in her Eugene studio. “It’s part of my life, so I cannot just take it out. My blood needs hula ...

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 ...

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 ...

After a lifetime of not communicating with your hips, it’s not so easy to figure out how to sway. By Dana Mackenzie When you think of a hula dancer, what do you picture? A female dancer, most likely ...

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 ...