When Kamaile Hamada found out last June that his group had been accepted into the world’s most prestigious hula competition, the first person he wanted to tell was his former hula partner, Sweetie ...

To learn more about the negative impact of people dressing up as hula dancers, BuzzFeed recently spoke to Chelei. "Hula dancers are greatly sexualized in the entertainment industry and Hollywood ...

Hula, once a romantic form of communiqué consisting of hip-swiveling dance and native island chants, has recently gone pro. With blue-chip sponsors like Tiffany & Co., Louis Vuitton and Hawaiian ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BERTHOUD — When it comes to “worship hula,” coconut-shell bikini tops, flimsy grass skirts and aggressive booty shaking are out. Instead, the hula dancers in ...

She is everywhere, the iconic image of a hula dancer -- in a grass skirt and bra top made of coconut shells, with hips that shimmy frantically to a ukelele song. We see her in Disney movies, in pseudo ...

The sweet smell of plumeria, swaying palm trees and seductive, shimmying hips--add chanting or ukulele music and you’ve got hula, right? For Patrick Makuakane, who was born and raised in Honolulu and ...

When most people think of hula, they think of a woman in a grass skirt. But it was men who first performed the sacred dances, before Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown in 1893. Actor and hula dancer Keo ...

An irresistible Japanese import, “Hula Girls” is a crowd-pleaser so comfortable with its own clichés that it goes down smoother than a mai tai on Maui. Though ...

There’s a rule to watching hula: Pay attention to the dancer’s hands to understand the story. But Kumu Hula `Iwalani Christian said the hands alone won't tell you everything you need to know: Clothing ...

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 ...