Reviews
Reviews for Kanakolu
- from BroadwayWorld.com, July 28, 2015: San Francisco’s Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu to Celebrate ‘Kanakolu – 30 Years of Hula’
- from KQED feature 10/16/15
Hula From the Past, Advancing Into the Future Q & A with Kumu Patrick Makuakāne.
“Hawaiian culture runs deep in the Bay Area, and one reason is the work of Patrick Makuakāne, the founder and leader of the dance company Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, The company celebrates 30 years of hula mua (“hula that evolves”), based on Makuakāne’s innovative choreography and musical choices, with a series of concerts at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco running from Oct. 17–25… - from SF Chronicle review 10/16/15
“Given enough artistry and marketing flair, a professional dance company can survive for perhaps 30 years. But when a troupe that is fueled by talent, goodwill and community spirit rather than money endures and prospers for three decades, you suspect there’s a bit of magic involved.”
Mele Kuhikuhi
ACT ONE
- Pā Mai ka Makani a he Moaʻe – Puakea Nogelmeier
- Mālamalama ʻo Kapalakiko – Puakea Nogelmeier
- Lei Kapa ʻEhu Kai Kaʻena – Hoʻoulumāhiehie
- Hānau ke Poʻo Waʻawaʻa – from the epic creation chant, Kumulipo
- O ka ʻAu Moana – Lucia Tarallo
- He Wahine Namuhanu – Lucia Tarallo
- Blue Savannah – Erasure
- Blue Bayou – Roy Orbison, Joe Melson
- Blue Monday – New Order; from the remixed single by Digweed
& Muir. Lyrics: the Hawaiian chant ʻAkahi Hoʻi Au A ʻIke, Solomon Huihui - I Am Stretched On Your Grave – Translation of an anonymous 17th c. Irish
poem “Taim sinte ar do thuama.” - Kawaihae – Kuana Torres Kahele
- Bow Down Mister – Jesus Loves You feat. Boy George, edited by P. Makuakāne
ACT TWO
- Pua ʻĀhihi – Mary Kawena Pukui, Maddy Lam; from Ke Poʻokela Vol 1
by the Kahauanu Lake Trio - Aia i Niʻihau i Kuʻu Pāwehe – Kuana Torres Kahele, from Kahelelani Niʻihau
by Kuana Torres Kahele - Pāpālina Disco Megamix (I Will Survive/Pāpālina Lahilahi/Business/It’s Raining Men) Freddie Perrin & Dino Fekaris/Alice Johnson/Eminem/Paul Jabara & Paul Shaffer from the single, I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, from the album Party Hulas,
from the album The Eminem Show, from the single Itʻs Raining Men by
the Weather Girls. - He Mele Pāpahi – Puakea Nogelmeier
- Maikaʻi Nā Pua o ka Uluwehi – Manu Boyd
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Ewan MacColl, from The Very Best
of Roberta Flack - The Gift – Way Out West feat. Johanna Law, edited by P. Makuakane
- Kaulilua i ke Anu Waiʻaleʻale – traditional Hawiian chant
- I Got Rhythm / Hoʻoheno Kēia No Beauty – George & Ira Gershwin / John Almeida,
Johnny Noble, John La Touche - If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight (feat. Louis Armstrong) – Johnson &
Creamer, from the album Rewound and Reworked Jazz Remixes Vol 2 - Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wa-I – Prince Leleiohoku, from the album Tickling The Strings:
Music of Hawaii 1929 by Andy Iona and His Islanders
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