Wednesday: What’s your favorite hula?
April 2nd, 2008 by WandaHILO, Hawaii: In today’s Merrie Monarch blog, NOT ONE WORD ABOUT FOOD (except, I have to say mahalo for the oxtail soup at Kuhio Grille, where I had a late lunch today with Chef George Mavrothalassitis and his wife Donna Jung).
You know you really love the oxtail soup when you find yourself trying to figure out a way to distract the sophisticated French chef across the table from you so you can pick up the bones with your hashi and slurp on them!
Mavro and Donna came into town to experience for the first time the free ho’ike, a gift each Wednesday night of Merrie Monarch week from Halau O Kekuhi to the people of Hilo. Which led to an interesting thought: Which is your favorite night of MM?
For me, when I’m watching in person, it’s the non-televised ho’ike that I love the best, which is always extremely lively, varied and exciting, with Halau O Kekuhi doing their ai haa (low, gutteral, energetic hula style) and their extremely honored and absolutely terrified invited guests (which range from Japanese halau to Maori and this year’s Tahitians and a Mexican dance troupe which also dances hula).
Plus, ho’ike also includes people who aren’t competing; it’s been the only time in some time that we’ve been able to see Johnny Lum Ho’s Ka Ua Kani Lehua troupe, for many, many years a perennial MM crowd pleaser and winner.
I asked my friend Tommy Boyd, who works for Bishop Museum and whose brother, Manu, has been both a commentator and a competitor on Merrie Monarch, about his favorite hula. His answer was: “’Auana, because it reminds me of the old days, the old Na Pua Lei, the old Mapuana; that’s what I used to love, the fabulous lines where not one inch of hair or body movement was out of place. If you had 50 girls, all 50 girls moved as though they were one girl. . . . the old old, party days, the old lu’au.”
I called my friend Marylene Chun, who arrived today from Kailua to attend MM, one of her favorite things — “hula heaven,” she calls it — and she said: “It would be kahiko, definitely. I love it for the ancient connections, the costuming. That’s where it all came from; the purity. So, hands-down, kahiko.”
I asked a Japanese national, who dances hula in Tokyo, who loves the art enough to have traveled across the ocean four of five times to see Merrie Monarch, Masako (she didn’t want to give her last name) and she said Miss Aloha Hula because (assuming the interpreter and I were in synch) “ in my dreams, I would like to do that.”
Doesn’t this say something about why this event is so popular and important? It reaches out to people who know and love hula in different ways and for different reasons.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
gotta be ‘auana because of the ono hawaiian music, and it’s fun to see who’s packed into the musicians pit. gotta give props to the musicians and the sound guys - uncle piggy, glen, kini boy and the rest of the crew.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:17 am
i personally love to watch kahiko. something about the beat, the energy, the oli that makes if feel more traditional…more hawaiian. don’t get me wrong, ‘auana is beautiful, the ladies looked so graceful, their dresses were gorgeous, and the flowers too, but like i said something about hearing the ipu and the face paced kahiko dancing that makes me feel more connected with my ancestors. all of the girls danced so beautifully the judges really have a difficult job!
April 4th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Wanda, oh, Wanda, where are you? What you think about last night’s performances? Lei? Pa’u? Mu’u mu’u? People in the audience? Fuud?
April 4th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Hui! Girlfriend! I’m going to give you the biggest compliment I can. Your blog makes me feel like I’m there with you and oh so envious that I’m not!! And by the way, my favorite night is ‘auana! Keep having a glorious time and blog on, girl!! Aloha no…
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