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...
LISTEN:“Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakane to debut new show ‘Mahu’ in San Francisco” (Hawaiʻi Public Radio | August 11, 2022)...
May 27, 2022 | Hawaiʻi Chamber of Commerce of Northern California Kumu Patrick Makuakāne receives the 2022 Kūlia I Ka Nuʻu Lifetime Achievement Award. Patrick Makuakāne is the Director & Kumu Hula of Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu. He is a creative force in the hula world,...
April 27, 2022 by Anthony Manuel Caravalho | San Quentin News The Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) prison population in the U.S. skyrocketed 250 percent in the 1990s, while the country’s overall prison population grew by only 77 percent. AAPI is now counted within a group called “Others”...
March 30, 2022 | Morning in America Kumu Hula Julie Mau, longtime Nā Lei Hulu dancer and former General Manager, was featured on Morning in America segment on female firefighters who are making a big impact for future generations ...
Na Lei Hulu’s virtual 2021 show features newly choreographed pieces that run the gamut from kahiko to auana to hula mua (traditional to modern to innovative). Filmed in San Francisco and in Hawaii, this new production also includes special appearances by guest artists! ...
Emily Wilson | sfcv.org Patrick Makuakāne is the founder and artistic director of the Hawaiian dance company, Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu (“the many feathered wreaths at the summit, held in high esteem”). He recently joined with Saddle Road Productions to form the group Eō. In April, they released...