KITV News | By Rick Quan | Oct 4, 2023 A big congratulations to Kumu hula Patrick Makuakane. He's one of twenty people from around the country this year to win a prestigious MacArthur Foundation genius grant. When Makuakane first got a text to call the MacArthur Foundation last...
MacArthur Foundation | October 4, 2023 Blending traditional hula with contemporary music and movements and uplifting Hawaiian culture and history. About Patrick’s Work Patrick Makuakāne is a kumu hula (master teacher) and cultural preservationist infusing traditional hula with fresh interpretations and establishing new routes for transmitting and preserving Hawaiian cultural...
Philanthropy.com | By Thalia Beaty, AP | Oct 4, 2023 The 20 fellows will each receive a grant of $800,000 over five years to spend as they see fit. Patrick Makuakāne’s choreography and dance have blended hula with contemporary influences while uplifting Hawaiian languages and histories. The John...
WashingtonPost.com | By Travis M. Andrews | Oct 4, 2023 Ian Bassin would rather talk about the 2024 election — “one of the most consequential” in the history of this nation — but right now he must talk a little bit about himself. His grandparents used...
Fortune.com | By Thalia Beaty, AP A scientist who studies the airborne transmission of diseases, a master hula dancer and cultural preservationist, and the sitting U.S. poet laureate were among the 20 new recipients of the prestigious fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, known as “genius...
APNews.com | BY THALIA BEATY | Oct 4, 2023 A scientist who studies the airborne transmission of diseases, a master hula dancer and cultural preservationist, and the sitting U.S. poet laureate were among the 20 new recipients of the prestigious fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, known...
StarAdvertiser.com | By Thalia Beaty, AP | Oct 4, 2023 Patrick Makuakane, left, director of a hula school in San Francisco, is shown with producer Lisette Marie Flanary of New York, in July 2003, at the Bishop Museum, before the preview showing of the documentary film...
We welcome audiences to Presidio Theatre for the premiere of RITUAL. We use ritual to create meaning in our lives, to connect, to grieve, to assuage, to transcend, to hula. In the shade of the Presidio, we embody rituals that transmigrate the soul of an ancestor to...
Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakāne and his award-winning dance troupe, Nā Lei Hulu i ka Wēkiu, presents MĀHŪ for two performances only this weekend. Watch the video at Hawaiʻi News Now....
Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakāne and his award-winning dance troupe, Nā Lei Hulu i ka Wēkiu, present an entirely new show, MĀHŪ, for two performances only. Nā Lei Hulu’s newest production features some of the most well-known māhū artists in Hawai’i today, including Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Kuini, and Kaumakaʻiwa Kanakaʻole, beautiful costumes and...
by Constance Hale | Dance Magazine, October 31, 2022 In a flowing blue-green gown, her arms bare, her long hair swept up elegantly and encircled with blossoms, Kayli Ka‘iulani Carr confidently took the stage at the 2016 Miss Aloha Hula contest in Hilo, Hawai‘i. This was...
San Francisco: Palace of Fine Arts Theatre [ October 23-24, 2022 ] Leeward Community College Theater [ March, 2023 ] LATEST INTERVIEW ABOUT MĀHŪ Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakāne to debut new show 'Mahu' in San Francisco Listen KUMUʻS AUDIO INFLUENCES ...
Roxie Theater, SF | October 24, 2022. Q&A with Directors Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson and Editor Bill Weber following the screening! On Honolulu’s famed Waikiki Beach stand four giant boulders placed as a tribute to the four legendary mahu–individuals of dual male and...
Stepping into the In-Between By Constance Hale | InDance Magazine, Sept 2022 In his latest show, MĀHŪ, San Francisco hula master Patrick Makuakāne explores the Hawaiian concept of a fluid gender and an openness to the third self. When ancient Hawaiian carvers would take material from the natural...
Say Aloha to These Local Luminaries in Dance, Education, Sports and More by Jeanne Cooper Patrick Makuakāne | Sixteen years after receiving a lifetime achievement award from the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, the iconoclastic kumu (hula master) picked up a second such honor, this time from the...