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Hawaii Tribune-HeraldApril 24-30, 2011
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ONGOING EVENTS10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday to Saturday — PIHA Native Hawai-ian Art Exhibit at the Merrie Monarch Festival Office, 865 Piilani St.8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday — Merrie Monarch Hawaiian Arts and Crafts Fair at the Afook-Chinen Civic Audito-rium (4 p.m. closing Saturday)
SUNDAY, APRIL 24Ho‘olaule‘a at the Afook-Chinen
Civic Auditorium9 a.m. — Ha‘akumalae, Kekuhi Keali‘ikanaka‘oleohaililani and Manaiakalani Kalua10 a.m. — Hälau Hula Ke ‘Olu Makani O Mauna Loa, kumu Meleana Manuel11 a.m. — Hälau Nä Pua O Ulu-haimalama, kumu Emery AceretNoon — Hälau O Ka Ua Kani Lehua, kumu Johnny Lum Ho1 p.m. — Hälau Nä Lei Hiwahiwa ‘O Ku‘ualoha, kumu Sammye-Anne Young and Nä Lei Liko O Ola‘a, kumu Kimo Kekua2 p.m. — Lori Lei’s Hula Studio and Wai‘ohinu Hula Studio, kumu Lori Lei Shirakawa3 p.m. — Merahi O Tapiti, Tiffany Dela Cruz
MONDAY, APRIL 25Noon — Hälau Keali‘i O Nalani, kumu Keali‘i Ceballos, at the Naniloa Volcanoes Resort1 p.m. — Hälau Hula ‘O Hilo Hanakahi, kumu Pua Crumb, at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel
TUESDAY, APRIL 2610 a.m.-2:30 p.m. — Hawai-ian entertainment at the ‘Imiloa Astronomy CenterNoon — Unukupukupu, kumu Taupori Tangaro, at the Naniloa Volcanoes Resort1 p.m. — Hälau O Mailelaulani, kumu Maile Canario, at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2710 a.m.-2:30 p.m. — Hawai-ian entertainment at the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center11 a.m. — Hälau Hula O Kou Lima Nani E, kumu Iwalani Kali-ma, at the CivicNoon — Hälau Na Lei Hiwahiwa ‘O Ku‘ualoha, kumu Sammye-Anne Young, at the Naniloa Vol-canoes Resort1 p.m. — Ke Ola O Nä Küpuna, kumu Haunani Medeiros, at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel
Hö‘ike at the Edith Kanaka‘ole Multipurpose Stadium
6 p.m. — Entrance of Royal Court6:15 p.m. — National Anthem and Hawai‘i Pono‘ï by Ka Leo Wai, the Waiäkea High Hawaiian Ensemble, Kawika Urakami6:25 p.m. — Pule by Kahu Wen-dell Davis6:30 p.m. — Hälau O Kekuhi, kumu Nälani Kanaka‘ole7:30 p.m. — Marshallese Iakwe Club, University of Hawaii at Hilo8 p.m. — Merahi O Tapiti, Tiffany Dela Cruz
8:45 p.m. — Te Tu Mataora, Haimona Maruera and Kiritiana Hautapu-Fonotoe, from New Zealand
THURSDAY, APRIL 2810 a.m.-2:30 p.m. — Hawai-ian entertainment at the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center11 a.m. — Hälau Hula Ke ‘Olu Makani O Mauna Loa, kumu Meleana Manuel, at the CivicNoon — Hälau O Kawänanakoa, kumu Alberta Nicolas, at the Naniloa Volcanoes Resort1 p.m. — Hälau O Kou Lima Nani E, kumu Iwalani Kalima, at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel
Miss Aloha Hula Competitionat the Edith Kanaka‘ole Multipurpose Stadium
6 p.m. — Entrance of Royal Court6:15 p.m. — National Anthem and Hawai‘i Pono‘ï by Ka Leo Wai, the Waiäkea High Hawaiian Ensemble, Kawika Urakami6:20 p.m. — Pule by Kahu Wen-dell Davis6:25 p.m. — Introduction of
judges6:30 p.m. — Miss Aloha Hula Competition, followed by presen-tation of awards
FRIDAY, APRIL 2910 a.m.-2:30 p.m. — Hawai-ian entertainment at the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center11 a.m. — Ke Ola O Nä Küpuna, kumu Haunani Medeiros, at the CivicNoon — Hälau O Kawänanakoa, kumu Alberta Nicolas, at the Naniloa Volcanoes Resort1 p.m. — Hälau Ha‘a Kea ‘O Akalä, kumu Paul Neves, at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel
Group Hula Kahiko Competition at the Edith Kanaka‘ole Multipurpose Stadium
6 p.m. — Entrance of Royal Court6:15 p.m. — National Anthem and Hawai‘i Pono‘ï by Ka Leo Wai, the Waiäkea High Hawaiian Ensemble, Kawika Urakami6:20 p.m. — Pule by Kahu Wen-dell Davis6:25 p.m. — Introduction of judges6:30 p.m. — Hula Kahiko Com-petition
SATURDAY, APRIL 3010:30 a.m. — Royal Parade through downtown HiloNoon — To‘a Here, Romi Salva-dor, at the Civic
Group Hula ‘Auana Competition at the Edith Kanaka‘ole Multipurpose Stadium
6 p.m. — Entrance of Royal Court6:15 p.m. — National Anthem and Hawai‘i Pono‘ï by Ka Leo Wai, the Waiäkea High Hawaiian Ensemble, Kawika Urakami6:20 p.m. — Pule by Kahu Wen-dell Davis6:25 p.m. — Introduction of judges6:30 p.m. — Hula ‘Auana Compe-tition, followed by presentation of awards ■
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The site includes a special Merrie Monarch section that features interest-
ing stories, hula photo galleries, sched-ules and more. The site also offers a fun and informative interactive Merrie Monarch poll that will change daily.
The first poll is today, and the last will appear Sunday, May 1. Visitors are invited to vote each day, and results can be viewed immediately. ■
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■ Welcome to the 48th Merrie Monarch Festival, 3
■ Complete list of participating halau, 4
■ Hilo dancer to represent Big Island in Miss Aloha Hula contest, 7
■ A quick glance at the 12 Miss Aloha Hula contestants, 9
■ Hula Hands: Every movement has meaning, 10
■ Ho‘ike is a night of free, exciting fun, 14
■ Free hula abounds this week in Hilo, 15
■ Judging isn’t easy for panel of dedicated experts, 18
■ Three Hilo halau will dance in this year’s competition, 20
■ Kahikilulani honors late kumu’s legacy, 21
■ The story of how Kalakaua became king, 24
■ ‘Uli‘uli plays important role in the music of hula, 26
■ Festival’s royal couple represents tradition, 28
■ The legend of the goddessPele and her migration to the island, 32
■ A complete list of previous festival winners, 34-35
■ Annual Royal Parade celebrates pageantry, 37
■ Don’t have tickets? Tune into K5 and watch live on TV, 38
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48th Merrie Monarch Festival kicks off in Hilo
By PETER SURTribune-Herald staff writer
Spring — it is a time for renewal, a fresh start, a rebirth, a celebration of life, when all the world
seems flush with possibility and hope.
In Hilo, as it has for the last 48 years, Easter Sunday brings a celebration of a different kind, one with hula and music. Forged in the fires of competition, and distilled through centuries of tradition, people from around the Pacific will take the stage and take their place in history.
They don’t dance for money; dancers have invested thousands of dollars and countless hours preparing for this week. They don’t dance for fame, or for the awards, although the promise of both looms. They do it out of love for their culture, for their ancestors, for their kumu, for their halau, and for them-selves.
This is why, despite all of the challenges that have faced the Merrie Monarch Festival in recent years — a collapsing economy, soaring fuel prices, and the deaths of
a few key people — the show must go on.
Or perhaps the festival’s popularity is because of these things.
Bring on the hula
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Above: Hula Halau ‘O Kamuela will be
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48th Annual Merrie Monarch Festival at
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in Hilo. At left: Kapua De Sa
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When Halau O Kekuhi takes the stage on Wednes-day afternoon — and every person in the stadium roars in approval — the excite-ment, the electricity, the power in the air will be beyond words.
When each of the dozen women in Thursday’s Miss Aloha Hula competi-tion performs her chant, the audience will hold its breath and marvel at the courage and grace she summons for a seven-min-ute solo performance.
When, at last, the final halau walks off stage Saturday night and the accountants begin com-piling the results, waves of relief will wash over the stands, and the Edith Kanaka‘ole Multipurpose Stadium will become a pa‘ina with 4,200 revelers.
Watching over all of it is the Royal Court, led this year by Mo‘i Kane (king) Aaron Ka Pomaika‘i Kaleo and Mo‘i Wahine (queen) Kaleo‘onalani Mei-Ling Francisco. They represent Hawaii’s last king, Kal-akaua, the original Merrie Monarch, and his wife, Queen Kapi‘olani.
The essence of the Mer-rie Monarch Festival is not in a single moment or a single place. It begins today with a bang, takes a breather on Monday and Tuesday, and beginning with the Ho‘ike on Wednes-day builds in energy and momentum through the weekend.
Today’s free Ho‘olaule‘a kicks off the festival in fine fashion, with a stellar lineup at the Afook-Chinen Civil Auditorium.
Beginning at 9 a.m., between 350 and 400 stu-dents of Keaukaha and Panaewa-area schools will be performing a ceremony “to be the face to wel-come everyone into Hilo,” said Manaiakalani Kalua, one of the kumu hula of Unukupukupu. Students
of Keaukaha Elementary, Ka ‘Umeke Ka‘eo and Ke Ana La‘ahana will present a series of welcoming ‘oli, or chants. Hei, or string fig-ures, will tell the stories of the area, an awa ceremony will represent a symbolic feeding of the community and a hula palaoa, or whale dance, will be performed.
“They’re going to be welcoming everyone through their chants and dances,” Kalua said. “Each of their chants has a con-nection to something sig-nificant about Keaukaha.”
The must-see perfor-mance of this day is, of course, Halau O Ka Ua Kani Lehua, under the direction of the incompa-rable kumu Johnny Lum Ho. Hula performances by Halau Hula Ke ‘Olu Makani O Mauna Loa, Halau Na Lei Hiwahiwa ‘O Ku‘ualoha and Na Lei Liko O Ola‘a, first-time Merrie Monarch competitor Halau Na Pua O Uluhaimalama, the colorful children of Lori Lei’s Hula Studio and the Tahitian group Merahi o Tapiti round out the day.
Monday and Tuesday are the “breather” days, with hula performances at the Naniloa Volcanoes
Resort and the Hilo Hawai-ian Hotel with Halau Keali‘i O Nalani and Unukupukupu, among oth-ers. Tuesday, the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center begins four full days of music, hula and workshops with Napua Makua, Nani Lim Yap, Hokulani Holt and other hula masters.
Wednesday morning, the official invitational Merrie Monarch Hawaiian Arts and Crafts Fair opens at the Civic. Later that night, the action moves to the main stage at the Edith Kanaka‘ole Multipurpose Stadium.
The can’t-miss Ho‘ike is the mother of all exhibi-tions, with samplings of dances from around the Pacific. Halau O Kekuhi, Hilo’s own champions of tra-ditional aiha‘a style hula, present a special per-formance clothed in kapa, made in the old way by masters of the lost art of kapa making.
“It’s been several hun-dred years since an entire halau has been outfitted in kapa,” said Maui kapa maker Lisa Raymond, who contributed a kihei, or cape, to the halau.
HULA From page 3
CALIFORNIAHalau Keali‘i O Nalani
Kane & Wahine / Kumu Keali‘i Ceballos
Los Angeles
Na Pua Me KealohaKane / Na kumu Sissy
and Lilinoe KaioCarson
HAWAII ISLANDHalau Hula ‘O Kahikilaulani
Kane & Wahine / Kumu Nahokuokalani Gaspang
Hilo
Halau Na Pua ‘O UluhaimalamaWahine / Kumu Emery Ali‘ili‘iokalani
AceretHilo
Halau O Ke AnuenueWahine / Kumu Glenn Kelena
VasconcellosHilo
KAUAINa Hula O Kaohikukapulani
Wahine / Kumu Kapu Kinimaka-Alquiza
Hanapepe
MAUIHalau Ke‘alaokamaile
Wahine / Kumu Keali‘i ReichelWailuku
Halau Na Lei Kaumaka O UkaWahine / Na kumu Napua Makua
and Kahulu MaluoKula
OAHUHalau Hula Olana
Wahine / Na Kumu Olana and Howard Ai
Puuloa
Halau I Ka WekiuKane & Wahine / Na Kumu Karl Veto
Baker and Michael CasupangPauoa
Halau Ke Kia‘i A O HulaWahine / Kumu Kapi‘olani Ha‘o
Kalihi and Kapalama
Halau Mohala ‘IlimaWahine / Kumu Mapuana de Silva
Ka‘ohao
Halau Hula ‘O HokulaniWahine / Na kumu Hokulani and
Larry De RegoWaipahu
Hula Halau ‘O KamuelaWahine / Na Kumu Kau‘ionalani Kamana‘o and Kunewa Mook
Kalihi and Waimanalo
Halau Ka Liko Pua O KalaniakeaWahine / Kumu Kapua Dalire-Moe
Kaneohe
Halau o ke ‘A‘ali‘i Ku MakaniWahine / Kumu Manu‘aikohana Boyd
Kanewai
Halau O Na Pua KukuiKane / Kumu Ed Collier
Kalihi and Honolulu
Ka La ‘Onohi Mae O Ha‘eha‘eWahine / Na kumu Tracie
and Keawe LopesHonolulu
Ka Leo O Laka I Ka Hikina O Ka LaKane & Wahine / Kumu Kaleo
TrinidadHonolulu
Ka Pa Hula O Ka Lei LehuaKane / Kumu Snowbird
Puananiopaoakalani BentoHonolulu
Ka Pa Hula O Kauanoe O Wa‘ahilaWahine/ Kumu Maelia Loebenstein
CarterHonolulu and Kaimuki
Kawaili‘ulaKane / Kumu Chinky Mahoe
Kailua
Ke Kai O KahikiKane / Kumu O’Brian Eselu
Waianae
Keolalaulani Halau ‘Olapa O LakaWahine / Kumu Aloha Dalire
Kaneohe
COMPETING HALAU
Halau Na Lei Kaumaka O Uka of Maui performs during last year’s festi-val. The ‘auana com-petition will be held Sat-urday night at the Edith Kanaka‘ole stadium.
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They are followed by three first-time perform-ers in the Ho‘ike: The Marshallese Iakwe Club of the University of Hawaii at Hilo, Keaukaha’s Merahi O Tapiti and New Zealand’s Te Tu Mataora. A veritable smorgasboard of island dances will show the hula and its cousins on a night few will forget.
Thursday brings the most coveted prize in all of huladom — the solo title of Miss Aloha Hula, given each year to the one dancer best able to represent her halau in the competition. Twelve women will take the stage, one at a time, and perform a hula kahiko, in the ancient style. They’ll chant to the gods and kings and queens of antiquity in what for many is a fierce, solemn performance. Then, after stepping off the stage, each woman must undergo a complete change and prepare for her graceful, moving hula ‘auana per-formance. The wahine who can pull off both styles is awarded an ipu heke, a seat in Saturday’s parade, and, more importantly, the title of the most accom-plished hula soloist of
the year. The Big Island’s representative in this con-test is Stephanie Whitehall from Halau O Ke ‘Anu-enue.
The three nights of competition are televised live on KFVE-TV.
All of this is a warmup
to the two days of group competition, when the nine kane groups and 19 wahine groups perform. The minutes that they spend on stage will barely hint at the hundreds of hours halau members spent memorizing and practic-
ing the chants, rehearsing the moves, and living and breathing together.
Friday night is group hula kahiko night, when the stars of the hula world unleash the full force of their halau on stage. It’s an hours-long succession of
performances of the high-est order, a night against which every other hula this year is compared.
Among those compet-ing this week: two-time defending overall winner Ke Kai O Kahiki, along with Halau I Ka Wekiu and
Hula Halau ‘O Kamuela, the overall winners from 2007 and 2008, respec-tively.
The Big Island is well-represented by three Hilo halau, including one new-comer. Halau Na Pua O Uluhaimalama, under the direction of kumu hula Emery Aceret, makes his festival debut. The men and women of Halau Hula ‘O Kahikilaulani return, as do the ladies of Halau O Ke Anuenue.
Groups that have returned this year after a break include Kapu Kini-maka-Alquiza’s Na Hula O Kaohikukapulani, Manu Boyd’s Halau o ke ‘A‘ali‘i Ku Makani, Ed Collier’s Halau O Na Pua Kukui and Maelia Carter’s Halau Ka Pa Hula O Wa‘ahila.
“I think returning after a three-year hiatus, we’re kind of approaching Mer-rie Monarch as a very important world stage of hula,” Boyd said. “And we are hoping to present what we consider to be traditional and rooted per-formances, yet fresh and new.”
HULA From page 4
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The kane of Halau Ke Kia‘i A O Hula of Honolulu perform their hula kahiko in 2010.
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Saturday night is the big finale — the group hula ‘auana competition, when each of the 28 competing groups throw on the glitz and flash one last time. Out go the sacred drums and sacred chants; in come the guitars and the powerful vocals of Hawaii’s greatest musicians, relegated for a night to become backup singers for the dancers onstage.
Then, a little after mid-night, it’s all over. The credits roll, the lights turn down, and the preparations begin for the next year.
But the Merrie Monarch Festival is more than just the three nights of competi-tion. It’s also the home of the island’s biggest parade, the best craft fairs, the greatest concentration of free hula performances, the heaviest rain, and so on. The air is tinged with energy and scented with flowers. There’s the sense that something great is about to happen.
Boyd has worked with the Merrie Monarch Festival almost every year since 1979, as a dancer, color commen-tator, musician and kumu
hula.The kahiko performance
from Boyd’s halau is a hula pahu, or drum dance, that Boyd composed to tell a portion of the legend of Pele and Hi‘iaka in their first meeting, and their three days together on Kauai.
“I was trying to present a new composition, telling an old story in a traditional manner,” Boyd said.
On ‘auana night, he’ll join his former kumu, Rob-ert Cazimero, and three others in singing mele
that Boyd composed for his own halau, plus Halau Mohala ‘Ilima and Halau Ka Pa Hula O Wa‘ahila.
“I’m very, very comfort-able at Merrie Monarch because I’ve been there a long time, and I had a nice relationship with Auntie Dottie and Luana (the two most recent executive directors), and I love Hilo, and I have family roots in Kohala,” Boyd said. “I feel very comfortable and very much look forward to our performances.”
So does the rest of the hula world. And in a few days, all of it will come together — a celebration that would make the Merrie Monarch himself proud.
Email Peter Sur at [email protected]. ■
HULA From page 5 HULA IN HISTORY
Lorrin Tarr Gill was a newspaper reporter, novel-ist and an editor and writ-er for the Bishop Museum. In 1923 she deplored the public’s misconceptions of the hula.
“The Hawaiian hula as known to the world at large is a spectacle of which we who make our homes in
the islands can not in any way be proud. The familiar picture of the lei-bedecked, dusky-skinned beauty, more or less adequately clad in her wreath and anklet of flowers, her bracelet of green, and the inevitable grass skirt expresses all that the hula means to those cit-izens of the Earth who have
never visited our beautiful land, as well as to many others who, as tourists, have done so. The truth of the matter is that the real Hawaiian hula has little in common with the coarse imitations frequently served up to sightseers, magazine readers, and the general public.” ■
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The highest indi-vidual honor in the Merrie Mon-arch Festival is
awarded Thursday night to the wahine who best expresses the essence of the hula.
Each of the 12 dancers competing for the presti-gious title of Miss Aloha Hula has spent countless hours fighting for the chance to be selected to represent her halau. She must perfect her own solo performance in the kahiko and ‘auana hula styles, and also perform Friday and Saturday in the group hula competition.
Stephanie Puakea White-hall — “Stew” to her hula sisters — is the Big Island’s sole representative this year. A member of Halau O Ke Anuenue, she’s 23, a junior at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, where she is major-ing in history and dance and trying to become a his-tory teacher.
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Stephanie Puakea Whitehall, the Miss Aloha Hula candi-date for Glenn Vasconcellos’ halau, attends a rehearsal session session on April 5 at the Edith Kanaka‘ole Multi-purpose Stadium in Hilo.
Big Isle will root for Whitehall
She’s the island’s sole entrant in the Miss Aloha Hula competition
More ■ A complete list of the wahine compet-ing for the title of Miss Aloha Hula, Page 9
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Dr. Kalena Silva, Professor of Hawaiian Language and Hawaiian Studies, instructs students in Hula ‘Auana class. Photo by Ron Hughes
‘o ka‘u nö ia ‘o ka pülamaMy sole duty is to embrace and to cherish...-From Ua Ao Hawai‘i written by Larry Kimura, chant melody by Kalena Silva
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She works full time, holding down jobs at Cafe Pesto as a hostess and waitress, and the Macy’s home merchandise section in Hilo. When not working, dancing or studying, she’s surfing.
Whitehall’s love of the papa he‘e nalu, or surfboard, spurred her kumu, Glenn Vasconcel-los, to choose a mele about the surfing spot of Oahu named Mamala.
Mamala, some say, was named a chiefess and a kupua, or demigod trick-ster, an expert surfer who could change her form into a giant lizard or a shark as she wished. Mamala lived with her husband, Ouha, the shark man, near modern-day Honolulu until she was lured away by the chief Honokaupu. The leg-end tells of “a love triangle between a surfer girl and
two chiefs,” Whitehall said, and the mele speaks of a love affair at Mamala.
“It’s actually a chant that is supposedly passed down from generation to genera-tion.”
Then, after her kahiko
performance, Whitehall will change from her ocean-blue kahiko costume to one of fiery red for her passionate hula ‘auana, “Ahi Wela.” “It’s talk-ing about the passion, the love,” she said. And her costume “looks like it’s on fire.”
The two styles, kahiko and ‘auana, are as different as night and day, or in this case, fire and water. Who-ever wins Thursday must display mastery of the two forms of the dance, with-out any backup from her hula sisters. To be eligible for this honor, the dancer must be 25 or younger, and be neither married nor a mother.
The new Miss Aloha Hula will receive a slew of honors, including a golden bracelet, a ride in Satur-day’s Royal Parade, an ‘ipu heke, a small cash prize
and an encore hula the following year. Most danc-ers, however, say they’re motivated by the chance to represent their halau.
Whitehall was born on Oahu but has lived in Hilo
most of her life. She started dancing hula at the age of 5 and joined Halau O Ke Anuenue when she was 10.
“I just felt she was ready” to compete for Miss Aloha Hula, Vasconcellos
said after one recent prac-tice. “She has a passion for dancing.”
“It’s a dream come true for me,” Whitehall said.
Email Peter Sur at [email protected]. ■
More info ■ Name: Stephanie Puakea Whitehall, 23■ Halau: Halau O Ke Anuenue■ Bio: Born on Oahu, raised in Hilo, 2006 alumna of Hilo High, now studying his-tory and dance at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Works at Macy’s and Cafe Pesto. Enjoys surfing.■ Kahiko: “Kahi Kai a‘o Mamala”■ ‘Auana: “Ahi Wela”
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By PETER SURTribune-Herald staff writer
The Ho‘ike on Wednesday night is like an inter-national potluck
— but instead of food, the feast features a medley of dances, each exotic and wonderful in its own way.
This year’s showcase features four courses from across the Pacific, and a stunning exhibition of the traditional dances of Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, Tahiti and New Zealand.
Setting the tone for the rest of the week is Hilo’s own Halau O Kekuhi, which, starting at 6:30 p.m., presents a set of 18th-century dances and chants.
The halau will open with a name chant for Kawe-loaikanaka, the esteemed chief of Kauai. The mele inoa “Aua Ia” refers to prophecies of changes to come, serving as an omi-nous warning to hold on to important things, including ideals, culture and land.
There will be drum dances, including the famous “Kaulilua,” and hula from the keiki ‘olapa on farming, fishing and warring themes from the time of Kame-hameha. But the real significance of these perfor-mances will be the dancers’ costumes of authentic kapa — cloth made from beating the bark of certain trees — presented in a way that nobody living today has ever seen.
Kapa was no longer made in Hawaii by 1860, displaced by durable and fashionable
Western clothing. It wasn’t until 1950 that interest in reviving the art form began.
A couple years ago, the few people who have had experience in kapa mak-ing over the last several decades began sending word out that they were hoping to clothe a halau. Word went out to the 30 or so known kapa makers, and about 24 committed them-selves.
The kapa makers chose Halau O Kekuhi because “we felt it was the most culturally secure and steady of the halau today,” said Marie McDonald, a kapa master who lives in Waimea and who helped to organize the gathering.
Kumu hula Nalani Kanaka‘ole set out a few guidelines: The malo, or loincloth, had to be 19- to 20-feet long. The pa‘u, or skirt, had to be 3 feet by 7 feet. The wauke, or bark paper, had to be fermented, it needed watermarks, and it needed to use natural dyes.
The kapa makers were turned loose. One of them was Lisa Raymond, an expert in the art of dyeing kapa.
“It’s so much work,” she said by phone from Maui. “It’s an investment of liter-ally hundreds of hours.”
First, she said, the paper mulberry tree, or wauke, must be cultivated. It was harvested between 1 and 2 years and stripped of the outer bark, so that the inner bark could be used. It had to be soaked so it can
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ferment over a number of months.
It had to be beaten, dyed and have a pattern printed on it.
To get the right shade of green for her kihei, or cape, Raymond and some friends used wood ash and 500 ma‘o flowers from the Maui Nui Botanical Gardens.
Somehow, all the pieces came together — 17 pa‘u, three kihei and four malo, and a few spares. Kapa makers from Maui, Oahu, Kauai, the Big Island, Lanai and one in California worked on one piece each. Each is decorated differ-ently.
“It’s going to be so
exciting to see the dancers wearing their pa‘u, and how they move with the bodies,” Raymond said.
McDonald was present on April 3 for the first fit-ting of the pieces.
“They were so beauti-ful, and so different and so appropriate for the bod-ies that are going to wear them,” she said.
“It’s a collaboration between the artistic kapa making and the art of the hula,” McDonald said. “It has taken us more than a year to get pieces ready for the dancers to wear on Ho‘ike night.”
The annual Ho‘olaule‘a kicks off the week of hula.
People are still requesting tickets for seats in the
nights of competition, even though it sold out four months ago.
The requests have come from at least
24 states, plus France, the Netherlands, New Zealand,
Germany, Japan and
China. So many of the people mill-ing around Hilo this week won’t be at the Edith
Kanaka‘ole Multipurpose Stadium for the competi-tion. Hence the focus on the free hula performanc-es, beginning today and continuing until through Saturday.
There’s the Ho‘olaule‘a, the giant all-day kickoff celebration featuring some of the Big Island’s best halau not in competition, and one that is.
There are perfor-mances daily at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel and the Naniloa Volcanoes Resort. The official invitational craft fair at
the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium features free performances; check the schedule on Page 2 for more information.
Wednesday brings the granddaddy of all free exhibitions, the Ho‘ike, with Halau O Kekuhi, the Marshallese Iakwe Club, Merahi O Tapiti and Te Tu Mataora of New Zea-land.
And as for the three nights of competition, that’s also free, if you have a television. If you aren’t full of hula by Saturday night, consider joining a halau. ■
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And that’s just the start of the night.
Every year, the tough-est job falls to whichever group follows Halau O Kekuhi in the Ho‘ike. On Wednesday, that will be The Marshallese Iakwe Club of the University of Hawaii at Hilo, which is is presenting a 30-minute set. “Iakwe” is the Marshallese equivalent of “aloha.”
The Marshall Islands is an independent republic comprised of five islands and 29 atolls, divided into two archipelagos with a north-south orientation. More than 30 students are performing, said club President Ayako Yamagu-chi.
“We’re going to do a part where all the girls and the boys will march together (onstage) and do a dance entrance,” Yama-guchi said. The men will perform a dance together in which they’ll show how they collect the coconuts to make copra, the dried meat of the coconut.
Then the women will do a dance on lei-making in the Marshallese way, Yamaguchi said. Their set will conclude with a co-ed performance to exit the stage.
“We’re happy to share
who we are, our culture, where we’re from,” Yama-guchi said.
From the Marshall Islands the scene shifts to Tahiti, where perhaps a hundred vahine (men) and tane (women) present the story of the legendary pearl through the shaking of many legendary hips.
Merahi O Tapiti is a Tahitian troupe based in Keaukaha and led by exec-utive director Tiffany Dela Cruz. Formed in 2007, the group claims the dis-
tinction of being the first Tahitian dance studio from the Hilo area to perform in the Ho‘ike.
Dela Cruz is originally from Kaneohe, Oahu, but moved to the Big Island when she was 11. A “Hawaiian who loves Tahitian,” she plans to bring the sounds of the South Seas to life. Danc-ers, drummers and singers will tell “the story of the Tahitian pearl, and how it provides light for the sky, light for the ocean.”
Tahitian pearls were first placed in the sky, to provide light for the world. They were they
placed in the ocean to light up the ocean, and then entrusted as a gift to humans.
“We plan on bringing about 100 people to per-form. That’s children and adults,” from beginners to advanced, Dela Cruz said.
The troupe will fea-ture three styles of dance. There’s the ‘o‘tea, the hip-shaking, fast-paced, percussion dance. The aparima is characterized by singers and musicians, and the ahuroa is a style similar to the hula.
Closing out the night is a Maori group from Aote-aroa, on the north island of what is also known as New Zealand.
Te Tu Mataora is “a family-oriented group with a belief and a desire to preserve and maintain our treasures that have been left to us by our ancestors,” said Haimona Maruera, the kaiako of the
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Te Tu Mataora of New Zea-land prom-ises an exciting performance Wednesday at the Ho‘ike. The free event will feature dance groups from the Big Island and around the Pacific.
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ro‘opu (the equivalent of a kumu hula of a halau).
“We have a traveling party of 52,” Maruera said by phone from New Zealand. “And we have 32 performers, and the rest — 14 children, and the rest are our elders and support people.”
“We’re looking for a real good time. It’s all fam-ily and we’re all — as well as being hon-ored and privileged to perform at the ‘Monarch’ — we’re definitely wanting to have a lot of fun ... and share what we have.”
The ro‘opu is arriving in Hilo today and taking a tour of the island on Mon-day. Tuesday, they will perform at Kawananakoa Gym for the students of Ke Ana La‘ahana, Ka Umeke Ka‘eo and Keaukaha Ele-mentary before taking part in a kipaepae ceremony in Hilo.
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They will also perform a medley of songs, the famous haka, and a final acknowledgment of Aun-tie Dottie Thompson and Uncle George Na‘ope and their own Maori matriarch, the late Pimia Wehi.
The intent is to acknowledge all of them “and bringing together and sending them thanks for the treasures they have left for us all,” Maruera said. “A big aroha (the Maori equivalent of aloha) to the Merrie Monarch and the people of Hawaii.”
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By PETER SURTribune-Herald staff writer
A halau had just finished per-forming its hula ‘auana last year
when the kumu, backstage, gave his pronouncement: Good, but not good enough to win.
But O’Brian Eselu was wrong. The men of Ke Kai O Kahiki walked away with the overall trophy for the second year in a row.
Another kumu, Keali‘i Reichel, said he was “shocked” that the judges chose his halau as the best in wahine division.
Then there was the rest of the field, too numerous to mention. Online message boards criticized the judg-ing process and wondered why their favored halau did not win or place.
Pointed barbs were lobbed at the judges for, among other things, award-ing the same halau every year with all the hardware.
But is it fair criticism?Consider for a moment
the judges’ task. One of the hidden strengths of the Merrie Monarch Festival competition is the require-ment that each halau must create an in-depth docu-ment explaining the various layers of the hula perfor-mances and what they plan to present. It’s called a fact sheet, but some halau pres-ent a dissertation-length study on the origins and meanings of a chant. These fact sheets explain the kaona, or hidden meanings, of a performance that the casual viewer does not pick up.
The judges somehow have to recall these fact sheets for the 24 hula per-formances Thursday night by the 12 Miss Aloha Hula contestants, the 28 group kahiko performances Fri-day night and the 28 group ‘auana dances Saturday.
During each commer-cial break, they’ll have
to assign scores for each group’s ka‘i (entrance), interpretation, expression, posture, hand gestures, precision, foot and body movements, ho‘i (exit), authenticity of costume, adornments, grooming and overall performance. The criteria vary depending on the night.
When they are done, the seven judges hand the
score sheets to a runner, who takes them to a team of certified public accoun-tants seated stageside. The highest and lowest scores from each performance are discarded, except in case of a tie, and the five remaining scores are added together to determine the final results.
Then the sniping begins. Or as Olana Ai calls it, “the
shrapnel of competition.” She and her husband, How-ard, are the two kumu hula of Halau Hula Olana.
“There’s always a sec-ond judging, and today, more than ever, people love
to voice their opinion. And either by writing it or tex-ting it, or vocalizing it, Ai said. She enjoys the drama of the competition.
“Too bad that people have to feel that somebody lost, and I think that’s the saddest part. Because when you’re on stage, you don’t feel anything like that at all,” Ai said. “You feel that you have brought everything together, and you step on that stage, and it just rushes right through you. And that power just stays with you and you leave, and the audience is so wonderful. ... And when the judges are giving the award, that’s their kuleana. That’s their best opinion. And we have to just respect it.”
Ai said the judges are
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trying to do the best they can do for the culture, “and it’s just in a second that they’re putting down a number, and then the num-bers are calculated without them in the room, so it comes out that way. And I can say that everybody has their sway, or their lean, but that’s their prerogative too.”
Halau members dance for their family, friends and supporters, and to tell the story, Ai said. “We’re always wanting to express the story with all of our heart.”
Whatever the score, “we don’t take it personally,” Ai said, adding, “They are who they are.”
“They” are a panel of seven, with lifetimes spent immersed in their own respective traditions of the hula — Cy Bridges, Hokulani Holt, Nalani
Kanaka‘ole, Mae Klein, Joan S. Lindsey, Kalena Silva and Noenoelani Zut-termeister.
Silva is the director of the Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke‘elikolani College of Hawaiian Language, and a master chanter. He has filled the festival’s hot seat for a number of years.
“The judging is very intense because it not only requires a lot of intense concentration during six, seven hours each night, every night for three nights, but it also requires that you really, very carefully observe the hula of people who have reached an extremely high level of pro-ficiency. You know, they’re very good at what they do, otherwise they wouldn’t be at the Merrie Monarch,” Silva said. “We judges have to come prepared as well.”
The challenge for Silva
and the other judges is best contained in the famous proverb “‘A‘ohe pau ka ‘ike i ka halau ho‘okahi.” — all knowledge is not taught in one school. Judges must determine how closely the performances hew to the various hula styles.
“There are different styles, and I really enjoy them. I enjoy viewing a hula and being able to say, ‘Oh, yes, that is an ‘ami, the hip rotation of the Beamer style.’ Or ‘That is the kaholo (a hula step) from Maiki Aiu Lake.’ Or ‘That is the ‘aiha‘a, the low dancing style that you see from the Kanakaole family.’ I really enjoy see-ing that because it gives depth and breadth to hula. If everybody did hula alike it would be extremely bor-ing.”
In judging the perfor-
mances Silva tries to honor the traditions of each of the halau to the best of his ability.
“I think I look for what most people look for ... things that I recognize as being a part of hula, and being intrinsic and being a part of the hula. But I also look for spontaneity, and a joy, if required, if appropri-ate,” Silva said. “I look for what’s appropriate to the hula itself.”
“There’s a whole gamut in the kinds of hula, and hula topics,” he said. “That would require ... an appro-priate reflection of the way the dancers present it in a performance.”
“Precision is a good thing, but not when it’s mechanical,” he said. Danc-ing together well to Silva does not mean mechani-cal precision, but rather it reflects “a sharing of a spir-
it of movement, both inside and outside. An inner movement that’s going on in the spirit inside, and then an outer movement that we see physically. And if that’s connected and coordinated, wow. That’s powerful stuff.”
Judges can award up to 15 points in the inter-pretation category, giving them leeway to reward an especially powerful perfor-mance. The other catego-ries have a maximum score of 10 points.
Silva said he reads every fact sheet, but on competi-tion nights he uses them more as an “assist,” while plugging in information from his own research and experience, and finally, after each dance, “judging in the moment.”
He never considers the audience reaction.
“That’s something we
(the judges) have talked about, and I think all of us agree that we are selected to be judges because, my understanding is the halau themselves have put up our names, and somehow we were selected,” Silva said. “And so I feel honored by that, and so I have to judge based on my honoring the halau; that is, not on maybe a passing fad or trend or ... spectacular move that might bring an audience to its feet. But I have to judge the whole hula in its entire-ty and based on a tradition of hula.”
That tradition, he said, goes back perhaps hun-dreds of generations to the earliest Polynesian voyag-ers. The Merrie Monarch Festival “honors our ances-tors and their work.”
“We remember them, we respect them, we honor them.” ■
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By PETER SURTribune-Herald staff writer
Rae Fonseca would tell the men and women of Halau Hula ‘O Kahikilau-
lani: If anything ever hap-pened to him, the show must go on.
Then, on March 20, 2010, at age 56, Fon-seca died on Oahu of a heart attack.
The halau took the kumu’s words to heart that year, performing well enough to place in
the kane ‘auana and Miss Aloha Hula competitions.They drew upon the
kumu’s words in the hard months after the 2010 festival, traveling to Japan to perform in shows that had been arranged prior to Fonseca’s
death.“With the help of the alaka‘i,
we were able to fill all those promises,” said kumu hula Nahoku Gaspang.
Gaspang was Fonseca’s own alaka‘i, or halau leader, and had known him for decades. A native of Oahu, she moved to Hilo in 1977 and joined
Kahikilaulani the next year. “And I’ve been with him ever since,” she said.
Fonseca was strict, in the manner of his own kumu, the late George Na‘ope. But halau members said it was for their own good.
In 2007, Gaspang and five other students received Kahikilaulani’s highest honor — the ‘uniki, or grad-uation ceremony, certifying them as full-fledged kumu hula.
But Gaspang is the first to admit that she is still learning. Nobody expected the transition to be so sud-den. The halau needed a leader, and Gaspang was a natural choice.
“It was a hard choice for me to say, ‘OK,’” she said.
Today, the halau tries “to keep his legacy alive and for the next generation,” Gaspang said. Though she knew her kumu for more than 30 years, she relies on a dedicated group of alaka‘i — No‘eau Kalima, U‘i Kamelamela, Roxy Kamelame-la, Awa Duldulao and Hoku Moniz — to carry on Kahikilaulani’s legacy.
In the early months, Gaspang asked the halau how they felt about her taking over for Fonseca.
“I just didn’t want to step into something that I cannot complete or do,” she said. “It’s been OK now.”
The alaka‘i have taken the lead in preparing the halau this year for the two nights of group hula competi-tion.
Group hopes to honor Fonseca’s legacy
Kumu’s presence still felt by halau
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Nahoku Gaspang, above, has taken over as kumu hula of Halau Hula ‘O Kahikilaulani since the death last year of Rae Fonseca.
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Hula, Hilo-styleThree hometown halau will dance in
this year’s competitionBy PETER SUR
Tribune-Herald staff writer
Away from the lights and the music, they are your neighbors, broth-ers, daughters, class-
mates and coworkers — average people living average lives.
But for a few minutes this week, they will kick off their slippers and move together as one under the harsh glare of the lights and the harsher glare of the judges.
Three halau are represent-ing the Big Island this year, and all of them are from Hilo. The ladies of Halau Na Pua ‘O Ulu-haimalama make their debut in the festival competition. A year after the death of their kumu, the men and women of Halau Hula ‘O Kahikilaulani will prove that the show must go on. And the women of Halau O Ke Anuenue are back, as the reliable veterans of the Merrie Monarch Festival.
————— Emery Aceret, now the kumu
of Halau Na Pua ‘O Uluhai-malama, had a revelation in 1981. A born-and-raised Hilo boy, he was attending the University of Hawaii at Hilo when a friend took him to see the Merrie Mon-arch competition that year.
“I thought it was pretty cool, and seeing men dance was new to me,” Aceret said. So he told his friend he wanted to join a halau — one led by kumu Johnny Lum Ho, who back then was sweeping the stage with the competition.
No, the friend said, Aceret was going to dance with her halau, and with her kumu, a fellow named Rae Fonseca. Aceret said: “Who’s that?” He would soon learn.
The next year, Aceret found himself dancing in the Merrie Monarch competition for Halau
Hula ‘O Kahikilaulani, and the next, and perhaps 20 times after that. Thirty years after his initial exposure to the hula, and a year after Fonseca died of a heart attack on Oahu, Aceret is leading his own halau to the competition.
With Fonseca’s blessing, Acer-et began teaching hula through a special program at the Lanakila Homes project with the Queen Lili‘uokalani Children’s Center. Fonseca chose the halau’s name: Na Pua ‘O Uluhaimalama, after the queen’s flower garden in Pauoa Valley, Oahu. It literally means “the flowers of Uluhai-malama.” And “na pua” is also a poetic reference “the children,” a nod to the halau’s origins. Aceret became a full kumu hula in 2007, charged with passing on the Na‘ope-Fonseca lineage to a new generation.
Ten students, ages 13 and up, are competing this week. They come from Hilo, Puna, Paauilo and Waipio Valley. Keeping true
to their halau’s origins, the wom-en will pay homage to Queen Lili‘uokalani, Hawaii’s last ruling queen.
Their hula khaki performance is “Ka Kuaka‘i a Lili‘uokalani,” composed in 1988 by the late Malia Craver. It honors the queen’s journey to each island shortly after the death of her brother, King David Kalakaua. The tour, a traditional journey that monarchs took soon after their ascension, visited Hawaii Island, Maui, Molokai, Kauai and Niihau.
The dancers will wear Kal-akaua-era costumes in different shades of blue, representing the ocean. They’ll be performing with ipu heke, gourd instruments, which they made themselves.
Their hula ‘auana selection, “Keolaokalani,” was written by the queen herself for the second son of Princess Ruth
Photos by WILLIAM ING/Tribune-Herald
Emery Aceret, center, watches his students make skirts for their kahiko number.
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Above: The women of kumu hula Emery Aceret’s Halau Na Pua ‘O Uluhaimalama practice their 2011 kahiko competition number onstage at the Edith Kanaka’ole Multipurpose Stadium on April 14. At right: This year, Halau Hula ‘O Kahikilaulani will be lead by kumu hula Nahoku Gaspang. At left: Glenn Vascon-cellos of Halau O Ke Anuenue holds an ipu during a recent practice at the sta-dium.
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Ke‘elikolani. The baby boy only lived six months, between February and August 1862. “The song is basically talking about that child,” Aceret said. “How the baby walks, how the baby moves, how the baby wiggles.”
Uluhaimalama is also performing in the Ho‘olaule‘a on Easter Sun-day, as the halau has done in the past.
“My style of hula is basically that of Rae Fonse-ca, Uncle George Na‘ope,” Aceret said. “It’s all balled up into one,” with his own additions.
One of the dancers, Kylie Andaya, 16, is a junior at Waiakea High.
“I danced hula ever since I was 6 years old, so it’s pretty much my life-style,” Andaya said. “It’s what I’m known for by my friends and family. It’s my passion, my life.”
Andaya has a personal connection with the halau’s ‘oli, the opening chant on kahiko night. “It’s talking about Lili‘uokalani, how she relates to God, and how she comes to God. It’s kind of similar to how I come to God. Hard to explain,” she said.
————— On the surface, Halau
Hula ‘O Kahikilaulani is honoring Kauai with a set of mele on both kahiko and ‘auana nights. But behind those songs and chants the halau is paying homage to Fonseca. The halau took its last major trip with Fonseca to Kauai before his death in 2010, and to Kauai they will return, in a metaphori-cal sense, in their perfor-mances Thursday and Fri-day. The men will perform “Hanohano Hanalei” in honor of Queen Kapi‘olani, said No‘eau Kalima, leader of the kane group.
“Not only did we choose it for the island of Kauai, but the island of Kauai is one of kumu Rae’s favorite,
favorite places. He loved that island,” Kalima said. “‘Hanohano Hanalei’ is a mele pana, a place chant. We describe in a dance the scenery on Kauai.”
The queen, wife of King Kalakaua, “really loved
her people and for that we really want to show that in our dancing. I give thanks to what she gave to the Hawaiian people,” Kalima said.
“It’s talking about places that people don’t even
know in the chant,” said kumu hula Nahoku Gas-pang. “And the boys bring the mele alive when they do it.”
For the wahine, “Our kahiko is called “‘Ula Noweo.’ It’s in honor
of Kamoha‘i,” said Awa Duldulao, another halau leader. “We’ve come to find that Kamoha‘i was another name for Emalani, Queen Emma. ... This mele speaks of the different areas of Kauai that she had trav-eled to,” and evokes the smells, sights and sounds of the place. They will be performing with gourd rattles, the ‘uli‘uli, which they’ve made themselves, and which will reflect on the rain.
Saturday, the kane group will perform “Ke Ka‘upu,” which was written by Prince Leleiohoku, the younger brother of Kal-akaua.
“It’s about a bird,” Kali-ma said, although Hawaiian songs are never just about a bird. “You’re going to like it.”
“I think it’s going to entertain the peo-
ple,” Gaspang said.The wahine will perform
“Lumaha‘i,” after the beach on Kauai’s northern shore that was made famous by the movie “South Pacific.” Kai Davis wrote the song, and his son will be in the audience on Saturday.
“I’m truly happy and I’m pleased from the bottom of my heart,” Gaspang said.
————— Halau O Ke Anuenue is
the old reliable standby of the festival. In past years the halau has been the Big Island’s only representa-tive on the Merrie Monarch stage.
This year they will pres-ent a pair of love songs.
“Kaua i ka Nani a‘o Hilo” on Friday was originally written for King Kalakaua, said kumu Glenn Vasconcellos. “It
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Glenn Vasconcellos’ Halau O Ke Anuenue of Hilo performs on kahiko night in 2010.
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“My hat is off to them,” Gaspang said.
“I gotta make sure that when they go off on their own, they know what to do, when it’s their turn to spread their wings,” she said. “That’s why ‘Kahikilaulani’ is ‘the staff of the heavens,’ but also the branches that branch out.”
But the leaves have not yet fallen from the branch. Fonseca was “everything to us,” Gaspang said. “Some-times I get lonely without him.” So she calls on the other halau leaders for help.
“They have been really on top of it,” she said. “They really work hard on it ... I want people to know that they are the ones that help prepare everybody for Merrie Monarch.”
Kalima at first didn’t think he was going to
dance this year, but as the months rolled by, he changed his mind.
“I needed to come back. I needed to do this. Mer-rie Monarch is challenging and it can be satisfying, and it’s fun. You’re with your hula brothers and sisters for a long time,” he said. “I think for me, that’s what I love doing. Hula is part of my life. It feels
right to do.”And so the show will
go on.“We all know what we
have to do,” Gaspang said. “We all have a plan. And we got to do it.”
Emery Aceret is the kumu of Halau Na Pua ‘O Uluhaimalama, which is making its debut in the competition this year. Aceret is another former student of Fonseca’s, until he became a kumu hula in the same 2007 ‘uniki cer-emony as Gaspang.
“Every time I do kahiko, I think about my kumu. And I was always a stick-ler on kahiko,” he said. “I want to kind of fill in his shoes in that department. ... Sometimes I can feel his presence with me. I can close my eyes and I can hear him talking to me.”
Email Peter Sur at [email protected]. ■
LEGACY From page 21
RAE FONSECA1953-2010
was something that Uncle George (Na‘ope) taught to my aunt.” The hula master encouraged the aunt, to do her own version of it.
Vasconcellos is taking it one step further and adapt-ing his own version.
“The girls are doing it with one ‘uli‘uli, kind of upbeat. It’s not a slow tempo chant,” Vasconcellos said.
The halau’s ‘auana selection this year is the classic “Green Rose Hula,” writ-ten by a member of Johnny Almeida’s band and performed memorably by the late Aunty Genoa Keawe. “No ka pua loke lau ke aloha, no ka u‘i kau i ka wekiu,” the opening goes. “My love goes to the green rose, the blossom I esteem the highest,” is how
Mary Kawena Pukui’s translates it.
“It’s an old song that people thought was written by Johnny Almeida,” Vas-
concellos said. But instead it was a member of his trio, Laida Paia. “It’s a love song, comparing the green rose to a lover.”
For their costumes this year, “each girl had to go out and get plants and grow them and plant them so we can have flowers,” the kumu said. He hoped they grew well, but a few weeks ago the students were jok-ing that they had black or brown thumbs.
“That’s taking a lot of tender loving care, especially for those who
are not green thumbs,” said Mokihana Kalaukoa, a member of the halau.
Email Peter Sur at [email protected]. ■
A member of Halau Hula ‘O Kahikilaulani dances a hula ‘auana in the 2010 festival.
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The unlikely monarchHow Kalakaua, tireless supporter of hula, barely became king
By PETER SURTribune-Herald staff writer
David Kalakaua had no right to be king. He had to work for it.
He was born of nobil-ity, and his ancestors were close to the ruling Kame-hamehas, but by the time he claimed Hawaii’s throne he had wedged a perma-nent split between the two dynasties.
His father was the high chief Caesar Kaluaiku Kapa‘akea, a great-grand-son of Kame‘eiamoku, one of the five Kona chiefs who had supported Kame-hameha I in his uprising against Kiwala‘o.
His mother, the high chiefess Analea Keo-hokaloke, a cousin of Kapa‘akea, was the great-granddaughter Keawe-a-Heulu, another one of the five chiefs in Kamehameha I’s council.
The couple had many children, including the future Queen Lili‘uokalani.
Born in 1836, Kalakaua was their third son, after Moses Kapa‘akea, who died at age 2, and James Kaliokalani, who died at age 16 in a measles epi-
demic.Following the old
Hawaiian custom of hanai, in which high-born chil-dren were adopted by relatives at birth, Kalakaua was taken from his birth-place by the high chiefess Ha‘aheo Kaniu to her own home, one of the residences of the reigning king, Kame-hameha III.
The royal court soon moved to Lahaina, Maui, where Kalakaua lived until he was 4. He then moved back to Honolulu to learn at the newly founded Royal School, where, according to author Kristin Zambuc-ka, “he was more noted for his sense of fun and humor than for his brilliance as a scholar.”
He took his first military instruction at the age of 14 from an old Prussian sol-dier, Captain Franz Funk. Two years later, in 1852, Kalakaua received his first army commission, with the brevet rank of captain. Kal-
akaua was promoted to first lieutenant in his father’s militia, which numbered 240 men.
He studied law under C.C. Harris, the future chief justice of the king-dom, and advanced through a succession of high offic-es. Kalakaua was promoted to military secretary under W.E. Maikai and then adju-tant general.
He became a major on the staff of Kamehameha IV, a member of the Privy Council of State in 1856, and the House of Nobles in 1858. Close friends called him “Taffy” and he was fond of singing, dancing and drinking.
Returning from a trip to America alongside Prince Lot Kapuaiwa, the future Kamehameha V in 1860, Kalakaua was appointed third secretary to the Department of the Inte-rior, and in 1863 became postmaster general. Also in 1863, he married a widow,
Julia Kapi‘olani, the grand-daughter of Kaumuali‘i, Kauai’s last king.
Kalakaua resigned from the post office in 1865 to become the chamberlain to Kamehameha V until 1869, when he resigned to pursue his law studies further. He was admitted to the bar in 1870 and appointed to a clerkship in the Land Office.
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Kalakaua saw an open-ing for himself. He also announced his candidacy, promising “to preserve and increase the people, so that they shall multiply and fill the land.”
Voters thronged to the polls on Jan. 1, 1873, and the result was a rout, a nearly unanimous vote — in favor of Lunalilo. The Legislature ratified the plebiscite, Lunalilo became king, and Kal-akaua graciously accepted an appointment to Lunali-lo’s staff and a promotion to colonel.
“Whiskey Bill” was the beloved people’s king, but his reign was a short one, plagued by poor health and a mutiny of the royal guards. Lunalilo died Feb. 3, 1874, without naming an heir.
Again, the kingdom faced a crisis. Again, Kal-akaua threw his hat in the ring. Princess Bishop was named as a possible can-didate, but her marriage to an American and her lack-luster campaign left her far behind Kalakaua and
Queen Emma Rooke, the widow of Kamehameha IV.
Kalakaua had spent a year courting public influ-ence makers, and it paid off. Americans held their nose and supported Kal-akaua over the pro-Brit-ish queen. Newspapers printed editorials in his favor. Emma’s supporters plastered Honolulu with placards and broadsides. She had claimed that in Lunalilo’s last days the king had expressed “his wish and intention” that she be the next ruler. Mass meetings were held to support each candidate, and on Feb. 12, 1874, delegates of the Legisla-tive Assembly elected the colonel over the queen by a vote of 39 to 6.
All hell broke loose when the tally was announced. Hundreds of “Emmaites” stormed the building, and those delegates who supported Kalakaua were severely beaten. Carriages that were intended to take the delegates from the build-
ing were demolished and wielded as clubs.
One of the delegates who was thrown out of a second-story window later died from his wounds. Angry mobs roved the streets of Honolulu, until 210 armed troops from American and British war-ships were called in to suppress the revolt.
Most of the police sent to control the mob instead joined it. Emma graciously accepted defeat and urged the people not to commit any more acts of violence. The two can-didates established formal, amicable relations, but the struggle between the two royal families was never settled.
“Queen Emma never recovered from her great disappointment, nor could she reconcile herself to the fact that our family had been chosen as the royal line to succeed that of the Kamehamehas,” Lili‘uokalani wrote in her memoir.
The next day, in the messy courthouse, the bat-
tered delegates and other dignitaries gathered to watch Kalakaua take the oath of office as required by the constitution. It was a simple inauguration, with none of the pageantry that would mark the later years of his reign.
The 36-year-old king had work to do.
Email Peter Sur at [email protected].
Sources:Bailey, Paul. Those Kings
and Queens of Old Hawaii: A Mele to Their Memory. Los Angeles: Westernlore Books, 1975.
Kuykendall, Ralph S. The Hawaiian Kingdom: Volume III. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1967.
Liliuokalani. Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 1990.
Zambucka, Kristin. Kal-akaua: Hawaii’s Last King. Honolulu: Mana Publishing Co, 1983. ■
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‘Uli‘uli: The rhythm of hulaSmall gourd containing pebbles plays important role in dance
By PETER SURTribune-Herald staff writer
The first hula per-formance that the James Cook expe-dition saw was in
January 1778, on Kauai.In describing the per-
formances, Cook wrote in his journal that “this Musik (sic) was accompanied by a song, sung by some women and had a pleasing and ten-der effect.”
He continued: “Another instrument was seen among them, but it can scarcely be called an instrument of music; this was a small gourd with some pebble-stones in it, which they shake in the hand like a child’s rattle and are used, they told us, at their dances.”
This was the first histor-ical mention of the ‘uli‘uli, one of a number of tradi-tional musical instruments that were developed only in Hawaii. A number of halau are performing this year with their own ‘uli‘uli. The sound it makes evokes the famous Kanilehua rain of Hilo, or perhaps waves crashing on a beach.
“In character it was a rattle, a noise instrument pure and simple,” wrote Nathaniel Emerson in 1909, “but of a tone by no means disagreeable to the ear, even as the note produced by a woodpecker drumming on a log is not without its pleasurable effect on the imagination.”
The ‘uli‘uli is used for both sit-ting and standing hula. According to the anthropologist Elizabeth Tatar, in the seated hula, or hula noho, the dancer, in a low kneeling position,
held the ‘uli‘uli in the right hand and gestured with the left. The rattle was shaken and struck against the palm of the left hand or parts of the body. In a stand-ing hula, Tatar wrote, the ‘uli‘uli would be played in the same manner by the dancer. Rhythms might be more varied and complex.
One ‘uli‘uli is used when performing a tradi-tional mele hula, but with the advent of hapa haole hula, two ‘uli‘uli, one in each hand, were used.
Dennis Keawe is a mas-ter craftsman who lives in Hilo, creating kapa, pahu, and other Hawaiian instru-ments. He distinguishes between two basic types of gourd rattle — the ‘uli‘uli,
which has the feathers, and the pu ‘uli‘uli, which does not.
Modern ‘uli‘uli use as a gourd the la‘amia, the
dried, sanded and cleaned-out fruit of the calabash tree.
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Dennis Keawe of Hilo dis-plays some of his crafts-manship in his workshop. Keawe makes ‘uli‘uli — small gourd instruments used during hula perfor-mances.
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The gourds are small, usually 3 to 6 inches in diameter and attached to a handle, which usually ends in a circular disk of kapa (or cloth) fringed with chicken feathers. The la‘amia is not native to Hawaii; it was introduced by Don Francisco de Paula Marin, an adviser to Kame-hameha I who is also cred-ited with bringing the first coffee trees to Hawaii.
The rattling sound can be made with dried ali‘ipoe seeds, shells or pebbles.
None of this comes eas-ily. Keawe estimated that it might take him two hours a day over the course of a month to make the ‘uli‘uli, or about 60 hours in total.
“The gourds have to be cleaned out really, really
well,” Keawe said.The pu ‘uli‘uli can be
also be made with la‘amia, but in pre-contact times the Hawaiians used coconut shells and small pebbles. The handle was made with dried lauhala leaves.
In February 1778, shortly before he died, Cook wrote in his journal of a gourd rattle decorated with “beautiful red feathers.”
Tatar, the anthropologist, noted that in the 1920s the ‘uli‘uli was considered sec-
ondary in impor-tance to the ipu, or gourd, in the hula. But an unusual court case in 1964
demonstrated its validity, and perhaps overturned Cook’s finding that it was not a real musical instru-ment:
“A manufacturer of ‘uli‘uli decided not to pay the 10 percent excise tax on musical instruments and
furthermore sued the federal government for five years of back
taxes — the claim was that ‘uli‘uli was not a
musical instrument. It was probably the first time a hula chant accompanied by ‘uli‘uli was presented as evidence.
In 1966 the 9th Cir-cuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco officially declared ‘the Hawaiian feathered gourd — known as the uli uli — ... to be a musical instrument.’”
Email Peter Sur at [email protected]. ■
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Festival’s royal couple represents tradition
By PETER SURTribune-Herald staff writer
The king and queen of the Merrie Monarch Festival represent one of
the few traditions that have survived since the first cel-ebration in 1964.
Much has changed since those early days, when Spencer Kalani Schutte placed a crown on his own head and on the queen, Doreen Henderson, in a re-enactment of King Kalakaua’s corona-tion.
What hasn’t changed is the selection of two upstanding community members to preside
over the festival. This week, mo‘i kane Aaron Kaleo of Hilo and mo‘i wahine Kaleo Francisco of Pahoa will rep-resent Kalakaua and Queen Kapi‘olani.
Francisco is tall and thin, a former model who enjoys digging in the dirt and who co-founded a non-profit organization to grow dryland taro and teach
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On a recent day, Kaleo looked at a picture of King Kalakaua, perhaps feeling envious of the royal mut-tonchops.
“I’m not sure I can get it to that size,” he said. Kaleo’s own beard is strictly to honor the
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“Not shaving every day for weeks has been kind of a blessing,” he said.
Police officer is mo‘i kane; Keopuolani descendant to serve as mo‘i wahine
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Aaron Kaleo, left, and Kaleo Francisco will reign as king and queen over this year’s festival. At right: Conch shell blowers signal the entrance of the royal court.
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He’s already shaved it off once, shortly after the official portrait was taken, but the whiskers have returned with surprising speed. Both he and his wife are getting adjusted to it, although his employ-er will likely require it be removed after this week.
Kaleo, 39, was born on Oahu, and he spent his childhood in Hono-lulu and California before returning to Hawaii and graduating from Aiea High School.
Kaleo moved to Hilo in 1991 and in 2000 joined the Hawaii Police Depart-ment. A year ago, another police officer, DuWayne Waipa, served as mo‘i kane, or king, of the festi-val. Waipa suggested that Kaleo serve in the Royal Court, but Kaleo was reluctant. After thinking about it, Kaleo decided it was his duty to go.
“It’s an honor,” Kaleo said, adding he wanted to “pay my respects to my kupuna, my elders, my tutu, my papa,” and to reconnect with his ances-tors.
“It’s a little nerve-wracking. It’s a little bit of pressure, but nothing bad. It’s all for a good
cause.” One of his sons, Austin Kaleo, 10, is also serving in the court as a standard bearer.
“He’s kind of excited as well,” the father said.
The hardest part of the job is the requirement that the king and queen
remain seated for up to six hours each night during the festival. By tradition,
once they take their seats around 6 p.m., they cannot rise until the end of the night’s competition. Kaleo said he learned a few “secret tips” from Waipa. “I’ll give it my best shot,” he said.
Francisco is another story.
“I know it’s going to be a hard time, not eating and drinking, because I love to eat,” she said with a laugh. “I actually rented the Merrie Monarch DVD from last year, and I was like, ‘This is really long.’” So she’ll have to be con-tent with stealing glances at the food around her.
Francisco was asked to serve in 2009, but because of a family emergency — the death of a son — she had to pass. In the mean-time, she worked on her foundation, Ho‘ai Hawaii, and helped decorate the float of the Hilo Grand-mothers Club for the Royal Parade; her mother is a member.
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The 2010 royal couple, mo‘i kane DuWayne Kaleo Kawai Holi Waipa, left, and mo‘i wahine Lisa Akana-Baltero, make their grand entrance into the stadium at last year’s festival.
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Through her mother, Mei-Ling Manuwa Green, Francisco is descended from Keopuolani, the sacred queen who out-ranked her husband Kame-hameha I by virtue of her high birth. Other women ancestors, from the Manu-wa side, were renowned for their willingness to fight alongside the men in the old days.
“I do have dirt under my nails. I don’t mind,” she said.
This week, “I’m look-ing forward to see Emery
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“I just really like my Hawaiial culture. I feel so blessed,” she said. “I just embrace it. I think it’s great.”
Email Peter Sur at [email protected]. ■
The Rev. William Ellis, an English missionary, lived in Hawaii between 1822 and 1823. During a visit to Lahaina on Maui, Ellis and other missionar-ies were teaching reading and writing to pupils at the home of Keopuolani, wife of Kamehameha I and mother of the ruling king. He describes what is known today as a hula kala‘au.
“Just as they had fin-ished their afternoon instruction, a party of musicians and dancers arrived before the house of Keopuolani, and com-menced a hura ka raau, (dance to the beating of a stick). Five musicians advanced first, each with a staff in his left hand, five or
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“In his right hand he held a small stick of hard wood, six or nine inches long, with which he com-menced his music, by
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“Six women, fantasti-cally dressed in yellow tapas, crowned with gar-lands of flowers, having also wreaths of the sweet-scented flowers of the gardenia on their necks, and branches of the fra-grant mairi (another native plant), bound round their ankles, now made their
way by couples through the crowd, and, arriving at the area, on one side of which the musicians stood, began their dance.
“Their movements were slow, and though not always graceful, exhibited nothing offensive to modest propriety.
“Both musicians and dancers alternately chanted songs in honour of former gods and chiefs of the islands, apparently much to the gratification of the numerous spectators.” ■
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THURSDAY● Merrie Monarch Invitational Hawai-ian Arts Fair: The official craft fair of the Merrie Monarch Festival, at the Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.● Hilo Hawaiian Hotel Moku Ola Ball-room, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.● Naniloa Volcanoes Resort Polynesian Room. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.● Hilo Shopping Center Common area. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.● Hawaii Arts, Crafts and Food Festival Sangha Hall, 398 Kilauea Ave. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. $2 admission; keiki 7 and under are free.
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It may come as a surprise to many that Pele, perhaps the most famous Hawaiian deity,
is not Hawaiian.The oral tradition calls
her a stranger, a foreigner from the land of Kahiki, who became established in Puna with her strange and mythical family.
Many versions of Pele’s migration legend have per-sisted long enough to be recorded. None should be seen as the authoritative ver-sion.
The late scholar Martha Beckwith notes that “the Pele myth is believed to have developed in Hawaii, where it is closely associ-ated with aumakua worship of the deities of the volcano, with the development of the hula dance and with innu-merable stories in which odd rock or cone formations are ascribed to contests between Pele and her rivals, human or divine.” The fol-lowing legends are adapted from Beckwith’s “Hawaiian Mythology.”
In one version, Pele is one of a family of seven sons and six daughters born to Haumea and her husband, Moemoe, in some unspeci-fied land. She longed to trav-el and, in tucking her little sister born in the shape of an egg under her arm, sought her brother Kamohoalii, the shark god.
Kamohoalii gave Pele the canoe of her brother Pu‘ahiuhiu, with Keaulawe and Keauka as paddlers, and promised to follow with other members of the family. She traveled first to Polapola (Bora Bora), then
to Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll), Mokumanamana (Necker Island), and then Ni‘ihau, home of the chief-ess Ka‘o‘ahi, where she was handsomely enter-tained. While on Kauai, she appeared in the midst of a hula festival in the form of a beautiful young woman. Falling in love with the chief Lohiau, she determined to take him as a husband, but continued traveling. She moved southeast, from island to island, trying to dig a home in which she could receive her lover. Finally, she came to Hawaii Island and was successful in digging deep without striking water.
In another version, Pele was born on Kuaihelani, the daughter of Kanehoalani and Haumea. She stuck so close to Lonomakua, the fire god, as to cause a confla-gration and her older sister Namakaokaha‘i, a sea god-dess, drove her away.
She took passage on the canoe Honua-i-a-kea with her little sister Hi‘iaka car-ried in her armpit. Along with her brothers, she arrived at the Hawaiian archipelago’s northwestern shoals. There her brother Kanemilohai was left on one islet and Kaneapua on another, but Pele took pity on this younger brother and picked him up again.
Pele moved from island to island, pursued by her older sister, until the two sis-ters encountered each other at Kahikinui on the island of Maui. There, in a final battle, Pele’s body was torn apart and the fragments were heaped up to form the hill called Ka-Iwi-o-Pele (Liter-ally, “the bones of Pele.”) Pele’s spirit took flight to the
island of Hawaii and found a permanent home there.
Oral traditions say that another fire god had pre-ceded Pele and was living at Kilauea.
Aila‘au, the forest eater, was “the god with the insa-tiable appetite, the continual eater of trees, whose path through forests was covered with black smoke fragrant with burning wood, and sometimes burdened with the smell of human flesh charred into cinders in the lava flow,” wrote William Westervelt in 1923. The leg-ends said he lived for a long time in an ancient part of Kilauea called Kilauea Iki, and was living in the great crater at the summit when Pele arrived at the seashore of Keahialaka in the district of Puna.
The goddess wished to see Aila‘au and find a rest-ing place at the end of her journey, Westervelt wrote. “She came up, but Aila‘au was not in his house.
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Pele: A visitor who stayed
The legend behind the goddess
Courtesy estate of Herb Kawainui Kane
Guided by her elder brother, Kamohoali’i in the form of a great shark, Pele voyaged with brothers and sisters in a great canoe from the ancient homeland. Pele carried her little sister Hi’iaka, to whom many dances are dedicated, in the shape of an egg.
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PELE From page 32
Of a truth, he had made himself thoroughly lost. He had vanished because he knew that this one coming toward him was Pele. He had seen her toiling down by the sea at Keahialaka. Trembling dread and heavy fear overpowered him. He
ran away and was entirely lost.”
So Pele, arriving at the summit of Kilauea, dug herself a great pit at Halema‘uma‘u and called it home.
Email Peter Sur at [email protected]. ■
No Kahiki mai ka wahine o PeleMai ka aina mai o PolapolaMai ka punohu a Kane mai ke ao lapa i ka laniMai ka opua lapa i KahikiLapa ku i Hawaii ka wahine o PeleKalai i ka wa‘a o Honua-ia-keaKo wa‘a, e Kamohoali‘i hoa mai ka mokuUa pa‘a, ua oki, ka wa‘a o ke kuaKa wa‘a o kalai Honua-mea o holoMai ke au hele a‘e ue a‘e ka laniA i puni mai ka moku a e a‘e kini o ke kuaIawai ka hope, ka uli o ka wa‘a?I na hoali‘i a Pele a he hue, eMe la hune ka la, kela ho‘onoho kau hoeOluna o ka wa‘a, o Ku ma laua o LonoHolo i honua aina, kau akuI ho‘olewa ka moku, a‘e a‘e Hi‘iaka na‘i au ke kuaHele a‘e a komo I ka hale o PeleHuahua‘i Kahiki lapa uilaUila Pele e hua‘i eHua‘ina hoi e.
The woman Pele comes from TahitiFrom the land of BoraboraFrom the ascending mist of Kane, from the clouds that move in the sky,From the pointed clouds born at TahitiThe woman Pele was restless for Hawaii.‘Fashion the canoe Honua-ia-kea,As a canoe, o Kamohoali‘i, for venturing to the island.’Completed, equipped, is the canoe of the gods,The canoe for (Pele)-of-the-sacred-earth to sail in.From the straight course the heavenly one turnedAnd went around the island, and the multitude of the gods stepped shore.‘Who were behind at the stern of the canoe?’‘The household of Pele and her company,Those who bail, those who work the paddles,On the canoe were Ku and Lono.’It came to land, rested there,The island rose before them, Hi‘iaka stepped ashore seeking for increase of divinityWent and came to the house of Pele.The gods of Tahiti burst forth into lightning flame with roar and tumult,Lightning flames gushed forth,Burst forth with a roar.
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Welcome Merrie MonarchWelcome Merrie MonarchParticipants & Visitors!Participants & Visitors!
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1971Implements Division and Mod-ern Division winner: Hauoli Hula StudioMiss Aloha Hula Aloha Wong, Keolalaulani Hula Studio
1972Ancient and Modern: Johnny Lum Ho Hula StudioImplements: Puamana Hula StudioMiss Aloha Hula Aulani Newalu, Halau ‘O Kahealani
1973Kahiko, ‘Auana, Implements: Hauoli Hula StudioMiss Aloha Hula Kalani Kalawa, Louise Kaleiki Hula Studio
1974Kahiko, ‘Auana, Implements: Louise Kaleiki Hula Studio*Miss Aloha Hula Dee Dee Aipo-lani, Piilani Watkins Hula Studio
1975Kahiko: (tie) ‘Ilima Hula Studio and Hauoli Hula Studio‘Auana: ‘Ilima Hula StudioImplements: Keolalaulani Hula StudioMiss Aloha Hula Leimomi Maria
1976Kane: Na Kamalei O LililehuaWahine: ‘Ilima Hula StudioMiss Aloha Hula (tie) Ululani
Duenas, ‘Ilima Hula Studio, Sheryl Nalani Guernsey, Kaleo ‘O Nani Loa Studio
1977Kane: Halau ‘O KekuhiWahine: Na Pualei O LikolehuaMiss Aloha Hula Pualani Chang, Pukaikapua‘okalani Studio
1978Kane: WaimapunaWahine: Na Pualei O LikolehuaMiss Aloha Hula Regina Makai-kai Igarashi, Keolalaulani Hula Studio
1979Kane: WaimapunaWahine: Hauoli Hula StudioMiss Aloha Hula Jody Imehana Mitchell, Ka Pa‘u O Hi‘iaka
1980Kane: (tie) Waimapuna and Na Wai Eha O PunaWahine: Johnny Lum Ho Hula StudioMiss Aloha Hula Kaula Kama-hele, Johnny Lum Ho Hula Studio
1981Kane: Na Wai Eha O PunaWahine: Halau O Na Maoli PuaMiss Aloha Hula Brenda Alidon, Johnny Lum Ho Hula Studio
1982Kane: Hula Halau O Ka Ua Kani Lehua*Wahine: Hula Halau O Ka Ua Kani LehuaMiss Aloha Hula Dayna Kanani Oda, Hula Halau O Ka Ua Kani Lehua
1983Kane: Hula Halau O Ka Ua Kani Lehua*Wahine: Hula Halau O Ka Ua Kani LehuaMiss Aloha Hula Geola Pua, Hula Halau O Ka Ua Kani Lehua
1984Kane: Na Wai Eha O Puna*Wahine: Halau Mohala ‘IlimaMiss Aloha Hula Twyla Ululani Mendez, Hauoli Hula Halau
1985Kane: Na Wai Eha O Puna*Wahine: The Ladies of Ke‘ala O Ka Lauwa‘eMiss Aloha Hula Healani Youn, The Ladies of Ke‘ala ‘O Ka Lauwa‘e
1986Kane: Men of Waimapuna*Wahine: Keolalaulani ‘Olapa O LakaMiss Aloha Hula Leimomi Nuuhi-wa, The Ladies of Ke‘ala ‘O Ka Lauwa‘e
Though the first Merrie Monarch Festival was held in 1964, the hula competition did not begin until 1971. The kane, or men’s division, was added in 1976. The winners are listed below (* denotes the Overall Winner):
Photos by WILLIAM ING/Tribune-Herald
Above: Halau Ke‘alaokamaile of
Maui, under the direction of
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At left: Ke Kai O Kahiki of Oahu was
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1987Kane: Hula Halau O Ka Ua Kani Lehua*Wahine: Keolalaulani ‘Olapa O LakaMiss Aloha Hula Lisa Ku‘uipo Doi, Hula Halau O Ka Ua Kani Lehua
1988Kane: Hula Halau O Ka Ua Kani Lehua*Wahine: Hula Halau O Ka Ua Kani LehuaMiss Aloha Hula Sheldeen Kaleimomi Kaleohano, Hula Halau ‘O Kahikilaulani
1989Kane: Kawaili‘ula Hula HalauWahine: Hula Halau O Na Maoli Pua*Miss Aloha Hula Pi‘ilani Smith, Hula Halau ‘O Na Maoli Pua
1990Kane: Kawaili‘ula Hula HalauWahine: Halau O Na Maoli Pua*Miss Aloha Hula Natalie Noelani Ai, Halau Hula Olana
1991Kane: Halau Hula O Ka Ua Kani Lehua*Wahine: Hula Halau ‘O KamuelaMiss Aloha Hula Kapualokeokala-niakea Dalire, Keolalaulani Halau ‘Olapa ‘O Laka
1992Kane: Na Wai Eha O PunaWahine: Na Lei ‘O Kaholoku*Kauimaiokalaniakea Dalire, Keolalau-lani Halau ‘Olapa ‘O Laka
1993Kane: Kawaili‘ula Hula Halau*Wahine: Hula Halau O Ka Ua Kani LehuaMiss Aloha Hula Maelia Lani Kahanu-ola Loebenstein, Ka Pa Hula ‘O Kaua-noe ‘O Wa‘ahila
1994Kane: Halau Hula ‘O Kawaili‘ula*Wahine: Halau Na Mamo O Pu‘uanahuluMiss Aloha Hula Tracie Ka‘onohilani Farias, Na Wai Eha ‘O Puna
1995Kane: Halau Hula ‘O Kawaili‘ula*Wahine: Hula Halau Na Lei O Kahol-okuMiss Aloha Hula Allison Kailihiwa Kaha‘ipi‘ilani Vaughan, Ka Pa Hula ‘O Kauanoe ‘O Wa‘ahila
1996Kane: Halau Hula ‘O Kawaili‘ula*Wahine: Hula Halau ‘O KamuelaMiss Aloha Hula Ku‘ukamalani Ho, Keali‘ikaapunihonua Ke‘ena A‘o Hula
1997Kane: Halau Hula ‘O Kawaili‘ulaWahine: Ka Pa Hula O Kauanoe O Wa‘ahila*Miss Aloha Hula Kehaulani Enos, Halau Mohala ‘Ilima
1998Kane: Halau Na Mamo O Pu‘uanahuluWahine: Halau Na Mamo O Pu‘uanahulu*Miss Aloha Hula Lokalia Kahele, Na Wai Eha ‘O Puna
1999Kane: Halau Na Mamo O Pu‘uanahulu*Wahine: Hula Halau ‘O KamuelaMiss Aloha Hula Keolalaulani Dalire, Keolalaulani Halau ‘Olapa ‘O Laka
2000Kane: Halau Na Mamo O Pu‘uanahuluWahine: Hula Halau ‘O Kamuela*Miss Aloha Hula Tehani Kealamailani Gonzado, Hula Halau ‘O Kamuela
2001Kane: Halau Hula ‘O Kawaili‘ulaWahine: Hula Halau ‘O Kamuela*Miss Aloha Hula Natasha Kamalamalamaokalailokokapu‘uwaimehanaokekeikipunahele Oda, Halau Ka Ua Kani Lehua
2002Kane: Halau Ka Ua Kani LehuaWahine: Hula Halau ‘O Kamuela*Miss Aloha Hula Malia Ann Kawailanamalie Petersen, Hula Halau ‘O Kamuela
2003Kane: Halau Ka Ua Kani LehuaWahine: Hula Halau ‘O Kamuela*Miss Aloha Hula Jennifer Kehaulani Oyama, Halau Na Mamo ‘O Pu‘uanahulu
2004Kane: Halau Na Mamo O Pu‘uanahuluWahine: Na Lei O Kaholoku*Miss Aloha Hula Natasha Mahealani Akau, Halau Na Mamo ‘O Pu‘uanahulu
2005Kane: Halau Na Kamalei*Wahine: Na Lei O KaholokuMiss Aloha Hula Maile Emily Kau‘ilanionapuaehi‘ipoiokeanuenueokeola Francisco, Halau Na Mamo ‘O Pu‘uanahulu
2006Kane: Halau Hula ‘O KawailiulaWahine: Na Lei O Kaholoku*Miss Aloha Hula Bernice Alohanamak-anamaikalanimai “Namakana” Davis-Lim, Na Lei O Kaholoku
2007Kane: Halau I Ka Wekiu*Wahine: Halau ‘O KamuelaMiss Aloha Hula Keonilei Ku‘uwehiokala Kaniaupio Fairbanks, Halau Ka Pa Hula O Wa‘ahila
2008Kane: Halau Na Mamo ‘O Pu‘uanahuluWahine: Hula Halau ‘O Kamuela*Miss Aloha Hula Kalimakuhilani “Kuhi” Akemi Kalamanamana Suganuma, Keolalaulani Halau ‘Olapa O Laka
2009Kane: Ke Kai O Kahiki*Wahine: Halau Na Mamo ‘O Pu‘uanahuluMiss Aloha Hula Cherissa Henohe-anapuaikawaokele “Henohea” Kane, Halau Ke‘alaokamaile
2010Kane: Ke Kai O Kahiki*Wahine: Halau Ke‘alaokamaileMiss Aloha Hula Mahealani Mika Hirao-Solem, Hula Halau ‘O Kamuela
Plan ahead if you want tickets to the festival
Are you pawing through this insert looking for information on how to buy tickets to the three nights of competition? You are out of luck.
Although the Edith Kanaka‘ole Multipurpose Stadium seats 4,200 in the stands and on the floor, about half of that number is offered first to the competing halau. The rest have been sold out for months, so even if you follow all the steps below, there is no guarantee you’ll get a seat.
First, go to the official Merrie Monarch website at www.merriemonarch.com. Print out and fill out a ticket-request form. You may request a maximum of two tickets.
Second, mail in the ticket-request form, a cashier’s check or money
order in U.S. currency and a self-addressed, stamped envelope. The cost of the ticket depends on where you are seated and for which nights.
Third, send in your request on Dec. 27. Tick-ets are only accepted beginning the day after Christmas.
Because Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, it is observed on a Monday.
The tickets will be mailed out in February.
For those who do not get in, take consolation in the many hours of free hula performances that take place during the fes-tival, and remember that, as in any spectator sport, the view from the TV screen is often better than the view from inside the stadium. ■
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It takes a dedicated group of people to coordinate the Merrie Monarch Festival. In this photo taken earlier this month at the Merrie Monarch office in Hilo, festival director Luana Kawelu sits with some of her team. In the front row: Kawelu, Missy Kaleohano, Daisy Kamohai and Daisy Spalding. Back row: Lei Andrade, Claudia Spillman and Irene Lopez.
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Pageantry reigns at annual Royal Parade
The co-hosts of the KTA Super Stores cable show “Living in Para-
dise” will lead this year’s Royal Parade, including
the celebrated pa‘u riders, through Hilo on Saturday.
Derek Kurisu, the executive vice president of KTA Super Stores, is the founder of the Mountain Apple Brand, which fea-tures Big Island products to help local farmers mar-ket their products.
His partner in crime on the TV show is George Yoshida, a retired teacher
and government admin-istrator, and
former director of the Department of Parks and Recreation.
“They are a colorful pair,” said parade coor-dinator Missy Kaleohano.
The two grand mar-shals are leading the 91-unit parade, which begins at 10:30 a.m. rain or shine. The route begins on Pauahi Street, turns right on Kilauea Avenue, continues on Keawe Street, turns right on Waianuenue Avenue and right again on Kame-
hameha Avenue, until it reaches Pauahi Street again.
These streets will be closed to traffic as the parade passes; it takes about an hour for the full procession to pass a given point.
“We have 18 floats this year,” Kaleohano said, from halau, commercial and community organiza-tions. The U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet is sending its full band, a contingent of 24 people.
Other entrants include local high school and inter-mediate marching bands, the Royal Court and the
newly anointed Miss Aloha Hula.
The only notable cancellation is from Ikaho, Japan. Two or three officials of the Merrie Monarch Festival’s sister festival normally attend, but this year city officials are helping with efforts to house a number of tsu-nami evacuees and cannot attend.
Mauna Loa Mac Nut Corp. is sponsoring the parade and Central Pacific Bank is sponsoring the reviewing stand.
This year’s pa‘u queen is Pamela Namuo-Frendo Punihaole. ■
A temporary one-way traffic pattern will be in effect from Wednesday, April 27, to Sunday, April 30, on Kalanikoa Street in Hilo.
Traffic will be allowed to flow in the Puna or south-erly direction on Kalan-ikoa Street between Kuawa Street and Pi‘ilani Street during the festival.
Right turns only will be allowed on Kalanikoa Street for all entries to ingress and egress the Ho‘olulu Com-
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allowed to turn left onto Pi‘ilani Street from Kalan-ikoa Street. Traffic will only be allowed to turn right on Pi‘ilani Street to egress Kalanikoa Street.
Regular two-way traf-fic will remain in effect on Manono, Kuawa and Pi‘ilani Streets.
After 9 a.m. on May 1, traffic will be allowed to flow in its normal two-way pattern. ■
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The Merrie Mon-arch Festival hula competition is the hottest and hard-
est-to-get ticket in Hilo. For those not fortunate
enough to snag a stage-side seat, KFVE-TV — K5 The Home Team — broadcasts all three nights of hula in high-definition live from the Edith Kanaka‘ole Mul-tipurpose Stadium.
This is the second year of a five-year deal between the Merrie Monarch Fes-tival and the Honolulu television station. Popular radio and television person-ality Kimo Kahoano will perform his usual double duties as primary host and in-house public address announcer for the event. Hilo native Amy Kalili, executive director of ‘Aha Punana Leo, a Hawai-ian-language immersion preschool organization, will co-host. Kumu hula Pua Kanahele, daughter of the legendary Edith Kanaka‘ole, will provide color commentary, and Hawaii News Now anchor Keahi Tucker will do back-stage interviews with kumu hula and their halau.
“Kimo brings his under-standing of the festival,
his longtime involvement,” said telecast director Roland Yamamoto. “He’s a tradition unto himself. Amy is recognized for her knowledge of the ‘olelo,
the Hawaiian language. Pua is a hula master and a cul-tural resource. And Keahi represents the majority of us who want someone to ask the questions that we would ask if we were standing there.”
K5 General Manager John Fink said viewers can whet their appetite for the Merrie Monarch with two programs that air tonight.
“At 6:30 p.m., we’re going to be doing a show called ‘Merrie Monarch
Backstage,’” he said. “That will be a preview of what is going on backstage, follow-ing the halau through their preparations for the Merrie Monarch Festival. That will be a half-hour, followed by ‘Merrie Monarch 2010,’ which will be from 7 to 8.
“Then, the ‘Backstage’ show will repeat on Tues-day from 7 to 7:30 as a little teaser just before the event.”
Yamamoto has a crew of about 35. There are eight HD cameras in the stadium, including the remote-con-trolled overhead “spider cam” and a “techno-jib” camera — a camera on a boom, that can be moved both horizontally and verti-cally.
“The jib is like salt and pepper; it’s like spice. You can’t use it too much, or it ruins everything,” he said.
The center camera will be equipped with a long
lens for the first time this year, Yamamoto said.
“It’s for the front view, which the judges see, and also to show the syn-chronous motion and the formations that I believed are choreographed for that view. They’re doing it for the judges,” he explained. “It’s theater in the round, yet the majority of the time, it goes to the front.
“We’ve also added another camera right next to the stage, so we can
more of those shots that are close to the dancer that will give you the lens view that magnifies the drama of the motion. If you put a camera closer to the subject, the motion is more dramatic.”
Part of Yamamoto’s job is attending rehearsals to map ideas for shooting the live performances. He said he has already seen numer-ous halau rehearse their performance numbers.
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Spectators watch the stage with fixed gazes during a previous festival. For those unable to watch from the stadium, the event will be aired live on KFVE-TV.
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“A lot of halau, before they go to Hilo, they’ll find a place — like a gym or something — where they can block off the floor with masking tape and mark the floor exactly to scale, and get their entrances and their exits,” he said. “The kumu hula are creative and they even re-create those 8-foot sheets of plywood used to build the stage. Those sheets of plywood make lines, and they use those lines as guidelines to the dance.”
Many of the state’s top musicians perform music for halau to dance to dur-ing hula ‘auana, or modern hula. Yamamoto said the broadcast will make a tech-
nical upgrade to improve the sound viewers hear at home.
“We are setting up an entirely separate audio mixing station to do the music and also the chanter and drumming,” he said. “We’re feeding it all into a separate board that’s in
the TV truck and a sound mixer will mix it, and we’ll have a sound producer for the effects and the music. DJ Pratt from (the band) Kalapana, who’s an (audio) engineer, will be the sound producer. And Pat Ku, the owner of Rhema Sound, will be the separate music and chanting audio mixer.”
Yamamoto said the tele-cast “depends on the coop-eration and generosity” of festival organizers.
“Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen the festi-val go through generational changes, and it’s amazing how the tradition continues very strongly. Much credit goes to Luana Kawelu and her daughters and her sup-
porters in the office. It’s hard to imagine that the two key people who have made the festival what it is (Uncle George Na‘ope and Aunty Dot Thompson) both passed away within a few months of each other, and yet, the festival contin-ues because its roots are so strong and the family has taken the reins and moved it forward.”
Email John Burnett at [email protected]. ■
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A cameraman prepares for the Miss Aloha Hula compe-tition during the 2010 festival. For the second year, the festival coverage will be hosted by Kimo Kahoano and Amy Kalili.
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