{"id":195,"date":"2021-04-03T01:52:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T01:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spmen.net\/sunway\/?p=195"},"modified":"2024-11-17T17:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T17:26:15","slug":"hula-dance-hawaiian-polynesian-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spmen.net\/sunway\/hula-dance-hawaiian-polynesian-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Hula Dance \/ Hawaiian Polynesian Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hula dancing is the traditional art of movement, smooth bodily gestures and vocals.\u00a0 You may notice that Hula Dancing seems to have an incredibly smooth &#8220;flow&#8221; and the movements are extremely fluid.\u00a0 These movements are said to actually tell a story or represent movements of nature such as trees blowing in the wind or fish swimming smoothly in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawaiian goddess Laka seperated her Hula Dancers into two groups&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Olapa (Agile ones) &#8211; This group represented the younger generation of dances with more energy.<\/p>\n<p>Ho&#8217;o-paa (Steadfast ones) &#8211; This group represented the elders which sang and played musical instruments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QMD1hYuAL40?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the hula dance?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>hula<\/strong>\u00a0dramatizes or portrays the words of the oli or mele in a visual\u00a0<strong>dance<\/strong>\u00a0form. There are many sub-styles of\u00a0<strong>hula<\/strong>, with the main two categories being\u00a0<strong>Hula<\/strong>\u00a0?Auana and\u00a0<strong>Hula<\/strong>\u00a0Kahiko. Ancient\u00a0<strong>hula<\/strong>, as performed before Western encounters with Hawai?i, is called kahiko.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do men do the hula?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most Hawaiian hula dances are performed by women. Female hula dancers usually wear colorful tops and skirts with lei adornments. 3. However, traditionally, men were just as likely to perform the hula.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the definition of Polynesian dance<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Origins of the Movement. Polynesian dance encompasses Tahitian, Tongan, Samoan, Fijian, Maori (New Zealand) and Hawaiian styles. It began as an accompaniment to the oral storytelling traditions of those islands, conveying the literal meaning of a tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hula dancing is the traditional art of movement, smooth bodily gestures and vocals.\u00a0 You may notice that Hula Dancing seems to have an incredibly smooth &#8220;flow&#8221; and the movements are extremely fluid.\u00a0 These movements are said to actually tell a story or represent movements of nature such as trees blowing in the wind or fish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[222,223,218,219,216,217,220,231,232,228,229,233,234,224,225,230,226,227,221],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-entertainment","tag-beautiful-hula","tag-beautiful-hula-in-sunway","tag-hawaiian-hula-dancer","tag-hawaiian-hula-dancer-in-sunway","tag-hula-dance","tag-hula-dance-in-sunway","tag-hula-history-in-sunway","tag-hula-yang-indah","tag-hula-yang-indah-di-sunway","tag-penari-hula-hawaii","tag-penari-hula-hawaii-di-sunway","tag-penari-polynesian","tag-penari-polynesian-di-sunway","tag-polynesian-dancers","tag-polynesian-dancers-in-sunway","tag-sejarah-hula-di-sunway","tag-tarian-hula","tag-tarian-hula-di-sunway","tag-tarian-hula-hula-di-sunway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spmen.net\/sunway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spmen.net\/sunway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spmen.net\/sunway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spmen.net\/sunway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spmen.net\/sunway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spmen.net\/sunway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/spmen.net\/sunway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spmen.net\/sunway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spmen.net\/sunway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spmen.net\/sunway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spmen.net\/sunway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}