CARLSBADCARLSBAD — Hula teacher Christinia Pualani Lee broke her hip a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday. But that didn’t keep her from doing the hula at her birthday party. She did the Hawaiian ...

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Hula teacher Christinia Pualani Lee was about to turn 102 and her students wanted to throw a party despite the quarantine, a party befitting a beloved instructor who was born the year of the 1918 ...

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 ...

My late grandmother’s 10 acres of wild rainforest land, off a dirt road near Hāna, Maui, were part of a larger land grant given to our family more than 175 years ago by King Kamehameha III. When I ...

When I went to Hawaii looking for the real hula -- something more authentic than "I'm just a little brown girl in a little grass skirt in a little grass shack in Hawaii" -- I hardly expected to find ...

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 ...

Kumu hula Pattye Wright gives hula lessons over Zoom while dancers, Kailuana Oshiro, left, and Kaipo Parker take their lessons in person. Hula instructor Kanoe Miller conducts classes from her living ...

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 ...

"It blew me away," groom Austin Rodrigues-Ganigan tells PEOPLE Content creator Sofia Bella married Austin Rodrigues-Ganigan in Las Vegas on Sept. 27 The bride honored her Hawaiian husband by ...