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...

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, 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...

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...

LISTEN:“Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakane to debut new show ‘Mahu’ in San Francisco” (Hawaiʻi Public Radio | August 11, 2022)...