From left, Ada Limón, Patrick Makuakane, Courtney Bryan and Jason D. Buenrostro, all winners of a 2023 MacArthur Foundation award.Credit...From left: Carla Ciuffo for The New York Times; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (3)

09 Oct How MacArthur Foundation grantee preserves Hawaiian tradition of hula

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KCBS Radio | By Pat Thurston | Oct 9, 2023

Twenty winners were announced to receive the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship last week, including scientists, legal scholars, engineers, and a hula dancer.

Aiming to blend classical Hula dance with modern and contemporary elements, the artist says he is working to both preserve his culture as well as transform it into something new.

For more on this, KCBS Radio’s Pat Thurston spoke with the grant recipient Patrick Makuakane, Kumu Hula – master teacher – and director of a hula school and dance company in San Francisco.

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