Aloha e ko Hawaiʻi. He pou paʻa nō ʻo ʻAnakē Nālani Kanakaʻole ma ke ao hula. He kumu no ka Hālau o Kekuhi a he kaikamahine na ke kumu hula aloha ʻo Edith Kanakaʻole. I kēia lā, e ʻike kākou no kona kuanaʻike no ka hula a me ka hoʻoili ʻia aku o ia ʻike a mau loa aku.

Aunty Nalani Kanaka'ole is a fixture in hula as one of the kumu of Halau o Kekuhi and daughter of Edith Kanaka'ole. Today we hear perspective of hula and passing on the knowledge.

NĀLANI KANAKAʻOLE

KUMU HULA, HĀLAU O KEKUHI                                

I nā manawa a pau, hoʻomaka ma nā kaʻina wāwae pae kahua. He mea ia e maʻa ai ke kino me ke aho loa e pono ai ke oli ʻana.

When you start out the warm up class you always start out with the basics kind of thing and it was more of the matter to us to be able to be conditioned in order for the chant to come into you.

Mea nui kēia maʻa a paʻa o ke kino i ka ikaika o ka ʻuhane me ka noʻonoʻo e kō pono ai ka hula ʻana.

So you have to be conditioned physically which i think is the general difference physically in order to get the mental and the spiritual into the dance and feed your dance.

Ma ko mākou hālau, ke hōʻea mai nā keiki, hoʻokuʻu au iā lākou e holo i ʻō a i ʻō.

In our hālau if they come with children i let them run around they don’t have to sit down.

Puni ana ia mau keiki i ka hula a me ke oli a hoʻomaka lākou e hoʻopili i nā mākua.

As the children roam, with the hula and chanting swirling around them, the begin mimicking the adults.

A ke paʻa nei nō ka ʻike hula iā lākou ma ia ʻano, he kiʻina aʻo nō e paʻa ai ke oli a me ka hula. He nani maoli nō.

And what they’re doing is that they’re learning this subliminally and then when they go home they’ll automatically come in with the chanting and then they’ll come in with the dancing (8.33.03) so that to me is sort of like the main joy.

ʻIke nō kā ʻAnakē keiki ʻo Kūhaʻo i nā ʻano kuanaʻike like ʻole a ʻekoʻa paha no ka hula.

Aunty Nālani’s son Kūhaʻo can see the extreme perceptions people have when it comes to hula.

KŪHAʻO ZANE

KEIKIKĀNE NA NĀLANI; MEA HULA, HĀLAU O KEKUHI

Ua google aku nei au i ka huaʻōlelo ʻo hula a ua puka mai kekahi koho no Waikīkī a kekahi no Holo Mai Pele. Hoihoi ka ʻike i kēia ʻekoʻa mai ke ʻano o Waikīkī wale a laila, ke ʻano hula maoli ʻiʻo nō. ʻO koʻu manaʻo wale nō kēlā.

I googled the word hula and the first link was Waikīkī and then the second link was Holo Mai Pele and so it’s kinda cool to see the contradictory because you’re either going to get the Waikīkī hula or you’re going to get an actual true form of hula and iʻm just saying that in my opinion.

ʻIke nā kānaka i nā ʻaoʻao a kuanaʻike ʻelua. He manaʻo nō ko kēlā.

It kinda lets the viewer see both sides and both angles so I think that’s a pretty good statement in itself definitely.

Mahalo iā ʻoe e ʻAnakē Nālani no kou kūpaʻa i kēia hoʻoili ʻike hula ma nā hanauna hou e pono ai kēia mua aku. Ke aloha.

Mahalo to Aunty Nalani for her commitment to teaching hula especially to the next generation.