Hawaii Public Radio | By Catherine Cruz | Oct 6, 2023 Each year, the MacArthur Foundation awards fellowships to a handful of people at the top of their fields from science to the arts. It's an honor that falls like pennies from heaven. This year's recipients include Patrick Makuakāne, a...
NYTimes.com | By Christopher Kuo | Oct 4, 2023 On Wednesday, 20 Americans, all anonymously nominated, were recognized by the MacArthur Foundation with $800,000 fellowships often referred to as the “genius” award. Patrick Makuakane, a hula choreographer in San Francisco, was at the Burning Man festival when he...
Slate.com | Dan Kois | Oct 5, 2023 Among the 20 winners of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship announced Wednesday were scientists, engineers, composers, legal scholars—and one hula dancer. Patrick Makuakāne, a 62-year-old kumu hula, or master teacher, lives in San Francisco and runs the hula school and company Nā...
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....
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...
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...
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”...