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New UH production celebrates connection with ancestors through Hawaiian music
A new play celebrating 1930s Hawaiian music and its influence on contemporary Hawaiian music premieres at the University of Hawaiʻi’s Kennedy Theatre on Friday, Sept. 27. “Puana” was co-written by professor Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker with contributions from a creative team that included celebrated Kumu Hula Keawe Lopes and award-winning musician Zachary Alaka’i Lum. HPR had the chance to attend a rehearsal earlier this week…
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World premiere hana keaka, "Puana", at the UHM Kennedy Theatre
“I hope that when people come to see this, they see our music heritage and legacy, and they see ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i alive and well, and the current and future generations embracing that and moving forward as we carry our kūpuna with us,” says Haili‘ōpua. “Puana” implores the audience to contemplate on the roots of our past and future possible generations so as to build the ancestral bridge and reinforce the legacy of our cultural heritage. “Retain thy heritage, and thy heritage shall retain thee” as said in the production…
Read Ka Manaʻo’s article here.
Hawaiian theatre returns: Premiere of Puana explores music, ancestral ties
This fall, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Theatre and Dance and Kennedy Theatre will premiere Puana, a hana keaka (Hawaiian Theatre) production that delves into the spiritual connections between Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) and their kūpuna (ancestors) through the power of song. Performed primarily in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language), the play also commemorates the 10th anniversary of UH Mānoa’s Hawaiian Theatre program…
Read the UH News article here.
UH to host its 1st Indigenous performing arts conference
A conference celebrating the artistic expression of Native Hawaiian and Indigenous communities will take center stage at the University of Hawaiʻi this month. From Hawaiian language theater productions to creating adornments worn for performances, artistic expression will be featured at the upcoming conference called Noiʻi Nowelo. The event is spearheaded by the Research Institute of Indigenous Performance…
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He Wehi, He Lei, He Keaka Hawaiʻi
No ia manaʻo ʻo ka hana keaka Hawaiʻi, he ʻehā o
na mau kūkulu – ʻo ka moʻolelo, ke kūʻauhau, ka hana noʻeau, a me ka ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi. ʻO ke kūkulu mua ka moʻolelo, ʻo ia ka paepae o ko kākou hale, ʻo ia nō hoʻi kekahi o nā mea e ʻike ai kākou i ko kākou lāhui ʻana, he Hawaiʻi, he Kanaka Maoli. ʻO ke kūkulu ʻelua ke kūʻauhau, ʻo ko kākou pilina ia i nā akua, i ko kākou poʻe kūpuna, a i ko kākou ʻāina a me nā mea ola hoʻi o ko kākou pae ʻāina…
Read the Ka Wai Ola article here.
‘Lūʻau of emotions’ on stage at UH Mānoa
Hula and mele (song) intertwine throughout the world premiere of a hana keaka (Hawaiian theatre) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to reveal the polarizing facets of a Hawaiian ʻohana (family) grappling with loss, identity and healing. Written and directed by UH Mānoa graduate student Joshua “Baba” Kamoaniʻala Tavares, a dual concentration acting and Hawaiian theatre and dance MFA candidate, Glitter in the Paʻakai debuts…
Read the UH News article here.
National awards for UH Hawaiian language production
A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa hana keaka (play) written and directed by a recent alumnus of the Department of Theatre and Dance as part of his MFA degree in Hawaiian Theatre captured sixnational awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). The national theatre program, which incorporates 18,000 students annually from colleges…
Read the UH News article here.
Mālama ʻia ka ʻaha kūkā mua loa pili i ka hana noʻeau he ʻōiwi ma UH Mānoa
I ka hahai ʻana i ka manaʻo o Noiʻi Nowelo, ka ʻimi ʻana hoʻi i ʻike kūhohonu, e hoʻākoakoa ʻia mai ana kēia ʻaha kūkā i ka poʻe akeakamai o UH Mānoa a me ka Pakipika mai loko mai o nā mahele ʻike a me nā hana noʻeau he nui wale. Ma ia mau lā he ʻelua, e mālama ʻia he mau hōʻikeʻike, haʻiʻōlelo, pānela, hālāwai hoʻonaʻauao, ʻaha mele, a he hana keakanō hoʻi, i pūnana e hua aʻe ai nā manaʻo kelakela a me nā pilina e kaʻa ana ā puni ka honua…
Read the UH News article here.
Māori musicians mentor Mānoa students in contemporary song compositions
Ten students in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiian Theatre program are tapping deeply into their naʻau (gut) to acquire the art of composing mele (songs) rooted in Indigenous traditions. Throughout November, the award-winning program in the theatre and dance department is hosting guest artists from Aotearoa (New Zealand) who are mentoring haumāna (students) at UH Mānoa to write original songs in Hawaiʻi’s native tongue across…
Read the UH News article here.
Hawaiian theatre hits road in hope of inspiring next generation
In celebration of Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Language Month), haumāna (students) and kumu (faculty) from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiian Theatre program and Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge are trekking to a number of communities to encourage the use of Hawaiʻi’s mother tongue. Ola Ka ʻĪ is a series of free Hawaiian language fairs spearheaded by the organization Kanaeokana which features hoʻokūkū haʻiʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (speech competition)…
Read the UH News article here.
Exhibit honors award-winning Hawaiian theatre program
Native Hawaiian traditions such as haʻi moʻolelo (storytelling), mele (song), oli (chant), pule (incantations) and hula have been a part of Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) since time immemorial. These performance forms are the foundation of hana keaka, which are plays primarily performed in the Hawaiian language. It is a flourishing genre of the performing arts, nestled in the naʻau (gut) of the nationally recognized University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiian Theatre Program…
Read the UH News article here.
The native Hawaiian language is dying. This theater program is revitalizing it.
As Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker wondered what play to produce for her first show running the Hawaiian theater program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, a book literally fell off the shelf and hit her on the head. The director of the program took it as a sign from her ancestors and produced “Lā‘ieikawai,” a traditional Hawaiian romance, in 2015 for the department’s first hana keaka (performance). The groundbreaking show performed to sold-out audiences…
Read the Today News article here.