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Chief Sielu Avea (Chief Sielu in short) is a Samoan-born comedian and ambassador of Polynesian culture. [1] Since 2012 he has been the producer and host of Chief's Luau, a Hawaiian Lūʻau on Oahu.
Jaye Nāpua Greig-Nakasone [1] (born March 4, 1974), known professionally as Nāpua Greig, is a Hawaiian musician, vocalist, songwriter, record producer, kumu hula (hula teacher), and educator from Maui, Hawaii. Known primarily for her contributions as kumu hula of Hālau Nā Lei Kaumaka O Uka, she arranges traditional Hawaiian music as well ...
Spinning fire dancers of Udaipur perform traditional dance. Fire dancer with poi. Fire performance is a group of performance arts or skills that involve the manipulation of fire. Fire performance typically involves equipment or other objects made with one or more wicks which are designed to sustain a large enough flame to create a visual effect.
A Hawaiian fire knife dancer. The fire knife is a traditional Samoan cultural implement that is used in ceremonial dances. It was originally composed of a machete wrapped in towels on both ends with a portion of the blade exposed in the middle.
He has spent his life educating the world about Hawaiian culture through music and dance. Kealiʻi (pronounced Keh-ah-LEE-ee) Reichel was born and raised on the island of Maui . Reichel grew up in the town of Lahaina where he attended Lahainaluna High School , however he spent weekends and summers with his maternal grandmother in the plantation ...
Freddie Letuli, (April 30, 1919 as Uluao Letuli Misilagi in the village of Nuʻuuli in American Samoa – 2003), originated the fire knife dance in 1946 at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, previously dancing in Hawaii and Los Angeles with two knives. Along with performing, Freddie was also the teacher to the early fire knife dancers.
This book includes the original Hawaiian of the Pele and Hi'iaka myth and as such provides an invaluable resource for language students and others. Nathaniel Emerson, The Unwritten Literature of Hawaii. Many of the original Hawaiian hula chants, together with Emerson's descriptions of how they were danced in the nineteenth century.
The traditional music of Hawaii's Native Hawaiian community is largely religious in nature, and includes chanting and dance music. Hawaiian music has had a notable impact on the music of other Polynesian islands; Peter Manuel called the influence of Hawaiian music a "unifying factor in the development of modern Pacific musics". [2]