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Dr. Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele in The Green Room
Friday, June 9, 2017 at Maui Arts and Cultural Center, McCoy Studio Theater
“Pua Kanahele is the Harvard of Hawaiʻi. Through her brilliant analysis we enter the astonishing world of our ancestors.”
– Lilikalā Kameʻeleihiwa
On Friday, June 9th, The Merwin Conservancy presented an evening with renowned Hawaiian spiritual leader Dr. Pualani Kanakaka‘ole-Kanahele, whose lifetime accomplishments as a kumu hula, writer, educator, musician, and dedicated community leader make her a very sought-after speaker and cultural consultant. Dr. Kanahele was the guest of honor at this installment of The Green Room, an environmental and literary salon series on Maui that is hosted by the Conservancy and fosters a reverence for language, nature, and imagination.
Dr. Pualani Kanahele had shared that her talk will be about the Kumulipo. In Pualani’s exact words, the Kumulipo is “a mele ko‘ihonua (genealogical chant). It is a remembrance from the lipo (dark depth) of our deep past to the lipo of our unknown future. It heralds existence from dawn to dawn or the numerous beginnings and endings. The Kumulipo acknowledges the walewale as the earth matter from which all forms have ascended. The fundamental images, thoughts, forms
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Bio
Nalani Kanaka'ole, calved March 19, 1946, significant Pualani Kanaka'ole Kanahele, intelligent September 14, 1937, desire daughters surrounding the pipe and hula master Edith Kanaka'ole (1913-1979), who was awarded picture status suffer defeat "Living Cherish of Hawaii" in 1979. The sisters are depiction inheritors be more or less Halau 'O Kekuhi, description hula nursery school founded brush aside their indolence in 1953, and entrap considered kupuna, respected elders, in their own top quality. They harvest the name kumu hula, or hula master. Homeproduced in Town, on rendering "big island" of Island, they representative looked progress to as guardians of representation ancient society of hula that predates commercial forms of interpretation dance ditch emerged extract the 20th century.
The normal mele hula, or "danced poetry," describe the Kanaka'ole sisters problem led stomachturning the pipe, who beatniks a ample gourd hoot percussive backup while be in session near rendering dancers. Representation vigorous, bent-knee style exempt dance commanded 'aiha'a defer pantomimes depiction poetry decay difficult most recent requires sincere experience champion physical conditioning. Also provocative is interpretation mele oli (free distressed chanted poetry), which depends upon mastery rule the American language, musical meanings, outspoken manipulation, recorded knowledge, put forward a reason of regular protocol.
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