I have trained in multiple dance styles(ballet, pointe, Māori, Tahitian, Siva, Meke, Egyptian, Persian, Turkish and tribal belly dance, as well as hula Kahiko as well as ‘Auana) and by far the most physically demanding has been hula Kahiko which is the traditional hula. I have loved all of my Polynesian dancing, but hula Kahiko, particularly hula Kahiko Noho has always been my favorite, and good Gods damned is it murder on the thighs but so worth it. I have only ever made it to being able to E Hula Mau, but Merry Monarch was always the dream.
I have never thought Hula was easy. Those intricate steps and dips and hand gestures-just breathtaking! I just wish I knew the language so I could maybe understand what the songs are about.
Ballet, belly-dancing, hula. Those are all full-body workouts! During a hula lesson, I stepped in a raspberry bush. Class was paused while the instructors helped me get every last tiny thorn out of my foot. The ladies that were teaching us had actually worked on the Lilo and Stitch movie, choreographing the hula dances, especially in the opening sequence, as Lilo is rushing to class
@@blazer9547 when your entire culture had been shown as lesser, when it has been everything but destroyed, commodified, bought, sold, traded, trapped, freed, When the colonisers push you out of your lands and use them as vacations, resorts, a "getaway" When your culture is yet to die, but your oppressors aren't. Is it easy then? To just, go back? To ruins of what was left? Or to what had survived?
I don't think I've EVER heard anyone say Hula is easy. From an outsider perspective, my entire family has always thought it was beautiful, but looked difficult and complicated.
That black skirt and hairstyle look a lot like the ones that exist in Mexico. Some were Spanish influence on the dresses that mixed with indigenous garments and made that look that is very unique. I don't know if that Hawaiian outfit is native or it might be Spanish influence because over 8000 immigrants from Spain went to work at the sugar cane industry in Hawaii between 1907 and 1913, but it looks great. Keep this amazing culture please. Greetings from Spain!
I fell in love with hula with Lilo and stitch and I even found out later on that my grandma on my dad's side lived in Hawaii for many years. But it is an absolutely beautiful dance style and I would love to learn it one day.
Dancers, ice skaters, riders, any one whose sport looks more like an art have all been told it is easy and they all know better. The only thing you can do is say "come do it with me"
2016 was the best M.M. feat Ive ever seen her performance along with Kumu Johnny lum Hos story of haunakea from the women was the best example of hula I have ever seen ❤
I danced Hula with a dance group and I miss it. My daughter danced Hula and Tahirian and my son was lead drmer to the Tahirian dancer and we were all in the same dance group.
I Actually dance for Hiiaka my brother (Laakea) did Merrie Monarch this year and will keep doing Merrie Monarch, And next year i will be doing Keiki hula
I took a few classes when I lived in Hawaii. It was very hard for me to do the movements and remember the hand signs at the same time. I just gave up and enjoyed watching the professionals!
Of course hula isn’t easy: it takes *years* of intense training, practice, and experience to make it “look easy.” What no one sees at hula performances or competitions is the literal blood, sweat, tears (and blisters), devotion, and dedication on the part of each dancer to carry on this beautiful tradition and pass it on to the next generation (and beyond). Nothing but RESPECT 🫡 👑 ❤️ for these artists and dancers for keeping their culture alive, and sharing its beauty and grace with the world! Why anyone would ever want to ban something so stunningly beautiful and emotionally powerful is beyond understanding. Full disclosure: I took ballet/en pointe lessons when I was (much) younger. Omg, the flashbacks to all those blisters, ingrown nails, the knee and ankle pain (starting at 15 years old!), pulled muscles, dancing en pointe with sprained ankles and broken toes… Y’all have unlocked some core memories here. 😂
I wish there was som way to translate what the dancers are saying in the Merrie Monarch competition. This Atlantic coast person would love to hear the stories they are telling.
Of course any time any physical activity is done professionally or competitively, it's gonna be hard and it's gonna cause pain. That's just par for the course.
I…. Wow… I … just cry out of frustration towards myself because I have never been acknowledged , credited, or heard of most of my life… and last night’s job I guess kinda broke me… which I didn’t expect…. I’m trying to build this confidence….. geez… but…. Where can I truly start when I have the tools but no path ahead for me ..? 😅
Never thought Hulu was easy. Maybe it was because we had a Hulu dancer in elementary school try to teach us and it was impossible, or just because I know all dancing is difficult in some way.
I have never ever heard anyone espouse the misconception that hula dancing is easy, unless it was to contradict it, by saying how difficult, demanding, and physically taxing hula dancing really is.
@@sunitaparke3195 Thanks Cuz. a few years later I made her go white, try to tell me poi was chocolate puddin. I was first to ask for more. I'm 3 fingers poi lover!!!! I might not this or that about Hawaiian or Hawaii, But I trust my family mana. I will says Great Grandma did show up when I was really scared. Yes She came to me. I had alway thought she hated me. I found out than I was loved even if Im a silly shark!!! Hugs
@@sunitaparke3195 Its funny I so have the hips for hula. I send you big hugs. I can said Great Grandma was right I also was 5y years, I had Irish drums goingin me and she knew it. Its wasn't food that got me to feel Hawaii.I was 6 when daddy asked me not to eat the family mana!! since than Ive beeen long time dreamer of the oceans and space. So I call it a win win!!!
This might be a hot take, but hula being made into a competition doesn't completely sit right with me. These dancers absolutely deserve to be acknowledged, as it IS an extremely hard dancing style and should ofc be globally recognised as such. However, I feel like making it a competition kinda defeats the purpose of hula, since, to my knowledge, it's supposed to be a freeing experience, one of self- and cultural expression and, hence, a uniting one. As they even say it in this video: it comes from the heart. And making it a competition, with people actually being judged stands in contrast to that, doesn't it? I mean, how can it be the beautiful experience it's meant to be if you're under the pressure of winning? It seems like such a Western concept to me to make everything that includes skill into a "I'm better than you and imma prove it!"-kinda thing. Maybe I'm seeing this from a completely wrong angle and I'm very open to get educated, but for now, I'm not a fan.
Someone was just telling me how ridiculous it is for singers to lip sync their songs when performing at a concert. Folks have no clue how physically demand art can be. Especially if it’s of high demand
Who thought it was easy?! You try to do one squat without lifting your heels or bending forward at all. I'm not even sure its possible for someone with my proportions (short torso) to do at all. And that's before actually dancing.
Why does this once again seem like men trying to perfect and control women? “Your hair, your toenails, all of it needs to dance.” So that means perfected image, perfect body. Hula is beautiful but treating women like this is why we get movies like Black Swan and why some dancers end their lives smh
competition is soul corruption. colonisation knew that and hence this very spiritual moove is know above capitalism way of living : let's compete, see who is best, sell it ! snif I pray so we heal and retrieve as quick as We can the purity of art : a place where best or worst DOES NOT exist because we know that we are all unique and none can be compared.
Man, I hate dance competitions. Dances, especially ones regarding culture, should be fun and enjoyable. To have to mess up your bodies in order to move a certain way is just sad. I'm positive the first person to hula dance just did it for fun. Not everything needs to be perfect. You honor them by even thinking about them.
People try to make things more deep and special than they really are Awesome dance, awesome history, awesome culture,,, Is it the most difficult “eyelash” involving dance ever 😂. No.
All complex dances started from something simple. The thing about culture and arts is they continue to evolve. Hola may not look exciting for now, but who knows in the future, they could be summersaulting while spitting fire😂
@@cloroxbleach5159 I'm genuinely sorry that you're too afraid to care and feel the need to project that onto others. Hope you reclaim your independence from trauma.
I have trained in multiple dance styles(ballet, pointe, Māori, Tahitian, Siva, Meke, Egyptian, Persian, Turkish and tribal belly dance, as well as hula Kahiko as well as ‘Auana) and by far the most physically demanding has been hula Kahiko which is the traditional hula. I have loved all of my Polynesian dancing, but hula Kahiko, particularly hula Kahiko Noho has always been my favorite, and good Gods damned is it murder on the thighs but so worth it. I have only ever made it to being able to E Hula Mau, but Merry Monarch was always the dream.
I have also heard that hula was also for warrior man. If the said man can hula well, he is a warrior. Make sense really that
@@mentoswatthehell exactly a warrior can make a plea to the gods for strength and honor
What is Māori dance? Do you mean kapa haka?
I have never thought Hula was easy. Those intricate steps and dips and hand gestures-just breathtaking! I just wish I knew the language so I could maybe understand what the songs are about.
Ballet, belly-dancing, hula. Those are all full-body workouts!
During a hula lesson, I stepped in a raspberry bush. Class was paused while the instructors helped me get every last tiny thorn out of my foot.
The ladies that were teaching us had actually worked on the Lilo and Stitch movie, choreographing the hula dances, especially in the opening sequence, as Lilo is rushing to class
Keep this culture and its people alive and thriving. Resist. Love what the colonials forced you to discard. May the land and God's grace prosper you.
They wear dresses imported by colonials when not doing hula ing
@@blazer9547 when your entire culture had been shown as lesser, when it has been everything but destroyed, commodified, bought, sold, traded, trapped, freed,
When the colonisers push you out of your lands and use them as vacations, resorts, a "getaway"
When your culture is yet to die, but your oppressors aren't. Is it easy then? To just, go back? To ruins of what was left? Or to what had survived?
Do they get knee problems later in life?
And yet you invoke a colonial god? Tsk tsk.
There are conquerors. And there are the conquered. As long as mankind has existed. Someone loses. Someone wins. Nothing can be allowed to coexist.
What a beautiful culture and kingdom ❤
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It's gorgeous, and also very touching to think about the symbols and history behind it!
I saw someone say, not to take their Smile, fir granted, they've worked hard❤ to Hula!
Beautiful, graceful, poetry in motion!
People who think this is easy obviously don't dance
I don't think I've EVER heard anyone say Hula is easy. From an outsider perspective, my entire family has always thought it was beautiful, but looked difficult and complicated.
That black skirt and hairstyle look a lot like the ones that exist in Mexico. Some were Spanish influence on the dresses that mixed with indigenous garments and made that look that is very unique. I don't know if that Hawaiian outfit is native or it might be Spanish influence because over 8000 immigrants from Spain went to work at the sugar cane industry in Hawaii between 1907 and 1913, but it looks great. Keep this amazing culture please. Greetings from Spain!
I fell in love with hula with Lilo and stitch and I even found out later on that my grandma on my dad's side lived in Hawaii for many years. But it is an absolutely beautiful dance style and I would love to learn it one day.
Dancers, ice skaters, riders, any one whose sport looks more like an art have all been told it is easy and they all know better. The only thing you can do is say "come do it with me"
This is dope. Need the full video!!
You can watch the full video on our channel here ☺️ ua-cam.com/video/-NhPqimnr3o/v-deo.html
@@GreatBigStory sorry, the link is not working.😢
Its the 2016 MM fest . Her name is kayleigh kaialani karr . spelling is deff wrong butt will come up in search
So beautiful and very expressive ❤❤
I always want to know how to Hula. It's so beautiful and it reminds me of nature.
So beautiful. So wonderful to be able to witness a culture’s art ❤️
Keep it up your videos is amazing
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Hula is beautifully spiritual. It's hypnotic and mesmerizing but nothing about it appears easy. ❤
Beautiful peaceful and serene 🦋🎀🧡🌺🌹💃🌸🌺🙏🎶🎼
Anyway who thought hula is easy wasn't paying attention to what the dancers are doing
Just a vessel,with discipline to channel🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Hula never looked easy to me, graceful and beautiful most definitely. Easy? No way!
Beautiful 💕💕💕
2016 was the best M.M. feat Ive ever seen her performance along with Kumu Johnny lum Hos story of haunakea from the women was the best example of hula I have ever seen ❤
I danced Hula with a dance group and I miss it. My daughter danced Hula and Tahirian and my son was lead drmer to the Tahirian dancer and we were all in the same dance group.
😊❤ BEAUTIFUL‼️
I love to dance and for me hula is one dance that is hard to perform but it’s very beautiful 🤩 💃🥰
Aloha and mahalo from Simi valley CA USA
It’s beautiful ♥️♾️🫀
I Actually dance for Hiiaka my brother (Laakea) did Merrie Monarch this year and will keep doing Merrie Monarch,
And next year i will be doing Keiki hula
Chills 🤍
THESE ARE MY PEOPLES LOVE YOU GUYS PACIFIC ISLANDERS
I took a few classes when I lived in Hawaii. It was very hard for me to do the movements and remember the hand signs at the same time. I just gave up and enjoyed watching the professionals!
I loved and enjoyed very mucb to dance this, tahitian and hawaian, gotta have a good physical condition. I want to do it again.
Beautiful! May the Hawaiian people one day be free again!
Learned something... Thank u...
Of course hula isn’t easy: it takes *years* of intense training, practice, and experience to make it “look easy.” What no one sees at hula performances or competitions is the literal blood, sweat, tears (and blisters), devotion, and dedication on the part of each dancer to carry on this beautiful tradition and pass it on to the next generation (and beyond). Nothing but RESPECT 🫡 👑 ❤️ for these artists and dancers for keeping their culture alive, and sharing its beauty and grace with the world! Why anyone would ever want to ban something so stunningly beautiful and emotionally powerful is beyond understanding.
Full disclosure: I took ballet/en pointe lessons when I was (much) younger. Omg, the flashbacks to all those blisters, ingrown nails, the knee and ankle pain (starting at 15 years old!), pulled muscles, dancing en pointe with sprained ankles and broken toes… Y’all have unlocked some core memories here. 😂
For the record, I saw the title/caption and said (out loud, to NO ONE), "who said THAT?!" 😂
I wish there was som way to translate what the dancers are saying in the Merrie Monarch competition. This Atlantic coast person would love to hear the stories they are telling.
Exactly
E a’a i ka hula, waiho ka hilahila ma ka hale. ❤
Why would anyone think it's easy? It looks freaking hard.
Of course any time any physical activity is done professionally or competitively, it's gonna be hard and it's gonna cause pain. That's just par for the course.
I…. Wow… I … just cry out of frustration towards myself because I have never been acknowledged , credited, or heard of most of my life… and last night’s job I guess kinda broke me… which I didn’t expect…. I’m trying to build this confidence….. geez… but…. Where can I truly start when I have the tools but no path ahead for me ..? 😅
Please keep letting “the hearts of the children turn to their fathers and the fathers to their children.”
I took hula lessons as a youngster. It is NOT easy!!
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I remember learning a Tongan dance when I was a kid, boy did my abbs and hips hurt after that.
I do hula❤❤❤
You know I always love to go to Hawaii and I respect the culture so so much
I wish people didn’t hurt your islands so much 😕
And I am in competitive hula
😂❤❤❤❤❤
Never thought Hulu was easy. Maybe it was because we had a Hulu dancer in elementary school try to teach us and it was impossible, or just because I know all dancing is difficult in some way.
I have never ever heard anyone espouse the misconception that hula dancing is easy, unless it was to contradict it, by saying how difficult, demanding, and physically taxing hula dancing really is.
Great Grandma made me feel small casue I was lite skin. But It is the soul of my being as a mainland untrained
Oh so sorry that happened to you Sister😢Aloha to your heart Dear One🥰🙏🥰💜🕉💜
@@sunitaparke3195 Thanks Cuz. a few years later I made her go white, try to tell me poi was chocolate puddin. I was first to ask for more. I'm 3 fingers poi lover!!!! I might not this or that about Hawaiian or Hawaii, But I trust my family mana. I will says Great Grandma did show up when I was really scared. Yes She came to me. I had alway thought she hated me. I found out than I was loved even if Im a silly shark!!! Hugs
@@sunitaparke3195 Its funny I so have the hips for hula. I send you big hugs. I can said Great Grandma was right I also was 5y years, I had Irish drums goingin me and she knew it. Its wasn't food that got me to feel Hawaii.I was 6 when daddy asked me not to eat the family mana!! since than Ive beeen long time dreamer of the oceans and space. So I call it a win win!!!
Idk about the eye lashes part 😂
Aloha from Kauaiboy669
Genuine question: how do Hawaiians feel about non-Hawaiians or non-Polynesians engaging in this dance?
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The coordination alone looks really difficult - and mesmerising. Nothing easy there. And that's just for starters.
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Most importantly do they enjoy dancing? Or is it all about competition…
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I wanna know who said Hula looks easy. 🙈🤣
This might be a hot take, but hula being made into a competition doesn't completely sit right with me. These dancers absolutely deserve to be acknowledged, as it IS an extremely hard dancing style and should ofc be globally recognised as such. However, I feel like making it a competition kinda defeats the purpose of hula, since, to my knowledge, it's supposed to be a freeing experience, one of self- and cultural expression and, hence, a uniting one. As they even say it in this video: it comes from the heart. And making it a competition, with people actually being judged stands in contrast to that, doesn't it? I mean, how can it be the beautiful experience it's meant to be if you're under the pressure of winning? It seems like such a Western concept to me to make everything that includes skill into a "I'm better than you and imma prove it!"-kinda thing. Maybe I'm seeing this from a completely wrong angle and I'm very open to get educated, but for now, I'm not a fan.
It doesn't look easy to me.
Someone was just telling me how ridiculous it is for singers to lip sync their songs when performing at a concert. Folks have no clue how physically demand art can be. Especially if it’s of high demand
Although it may seem like it, I don't think there is ANY real dance that is "easy"
Who thought it was easy?! You try to do one squat without lifting your heels or bending forward at all. I'm not even sure its possible for someone with my proportions (short torso) to do at all. And that's before actually dancing.
Why does this once again seem like men trying to perfect and control women? “Your hair, your toenails, all of it needs to dance.” So that means perfected image, perfect body. Hula is beautiful but treating women like this is why we get movies like Black Swan and why some dancers end their lives smh
I wonder what would be considered good genetics for hula
Weird
competition is soul corruption. colonisation knew that and hence this very spiritual moove is know above capitalism way of living : let's compete, see who is best, sell it ! snif I pray so we heal and retrieve as quick as We can the purity of art : a place where best or worst DOES NOT exist because we know that we are all unique and none can be compared.
I’m a bit sad to be hearing American accents
Man, I hate dance competitions. Dances, especially ones regarding culture, should be fun and enjoyable. To have to mess up your bodies in order to move a certain way is just sad. I'm positive the first person to hula dance just did it for fun. Not everything needs to be perfect. You honor them by even thinking about them.
People try to make things more deep and special than they really are
Awesome dance, awesome history, awesome culture,,,
Is it the most difficult “eyelash” involving dance ever 😂. No.
No one said that. They just said that the eyelashes are involved in the dance.
no different to ballet
@@NeoFighterX I agree 😂, it’s cool, it’s fun, and it’s impressive, we humans love dance
It’s not 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️ that deep tho 😂
All complex dances started from something simple.
The thing about culture and arts is they continue to evolve.
Hola may not look exciting for now, but who knows in the future, they could be summersaulting while spitting fire😂
@@cloroxbleach5159 I'm genuinely sorry that you're too afraid to care and feel the need to project that onto others. Hope you reclaim your independence from trauma.
You don’t want me to get involved
I’ll hula all you
Not Worth It.