“In addition to the classroom, we offer excursions to wahi pana, our sacred sites, to further enhance the hula as the student experiences the winds and the rains mentioned in the lines of the chant,” according to the Moku O Keawe Festival. The annual event, now in its fourth year, celebrates hula and its related arts through its educational workshops on hula, including traditional protocol. The gust of wind or the ebb and flow of the water on the rocky shore, the extension of the hula dancer’s limbs, illustrates the poetry.Ĭultural workshops are part of the 2009 Moku O Keawe International Festival to be held November 5-8, at Waikoloa Beach Resort.
In both traditional and contemporary dance, the uliuli offers syncopation. As a percussion instrument it offers the hula kahiko dancer additional tempo measurement, and its silhouette is an aesthetic part of the choreography. The uliuli or gourd rattle is one of the most popular Hawaiian musical instruments to survive through centuries of change. The sounds of the gourd rattle enhancing each motion… The rhythm of the ancient chant echoes in the wind. Attaching a handle to a small gourd or coconut, filling it with seeds, the rattle becomes an extension of the hand.
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