In a tiny gymnasium at Foisia Park in Carson, California, an eclectic group of women ranging in age from 14 to 56 line up in rows, ready for instruction at their first siva Samoa (Samoan dance) lesson ...

Half a century ago, in a mostly white neighborhood in Buena Park, there lived a woman who had brown skin and didn’t speak any English. One day, her daughter’s high-school talent-show committee invited ...

Tésia Worley wiggles her hips on an exercise ball during a Hulaerobics class at the Kalihi YMCA. Instructor Crystal Gancinia leads Hot Hula Fitness class, held at Hauula Community Park. The class ...

The Mele Kini Polynesian Dance Studio was established in 1975 by Dottie Pranzatelli and Mary Jayne Anspach. Pranzatelli began her dancing career as a student with the Kealoha Studios, now located in ...

If you would like to buy and save call us to get our introductory price of $69 plus tax for a 4 class package. The KELANI core mission is to spread alofa (love in Samoan) and healing. Ioana Aboumitri ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and, even though New Mexico is thousands of miles away from any Polynesian islands, a local dance school has found a way to ...

Oakland County resident Frances Price has brought the art of hula to the mainland through her Polynesian dance classes. The Polynesian Dancers of Michigan halau (school) mission is to spread the ...

Whoosh! The fire hisses as Mikaele Oloa lights a nifoti, a Polynesian war weapon. Mikaele smiles. He loves that sound. He stands in a driveway in east Winter Park, barefoot with a skirt wrapped around ...

A few dozen dancers from Hula HAlau 'Ohana Holo'oko'a, taught by Lisa Chang, performed at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 17, at Magnolia Park in Hillsboro as part of the free Springs at Tanasbourne Concerts ...