Half a century ago, in a mostly white neighborhood in Buena Park, there lived a woman who had brown skin and didn’t speak any English. One day, her daughter’s high-school talent-show committee invited ...

Since her baby Lily was born 1 1/2 years ago, Kristy Flanagan-Rubio has been swaying her hips and moving her arms and legs to drop 45 of her 50 pregnancy pounds. “It’s my only form of exercise,” said ...

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What do you do? I am the founding leader of Huraiti Mana, a Seattle-based, empowering Polynesian dance troupe; director of museum services at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American ...

STOCKTON — Something remarkable happened last weekend when a young woman from Stockton traveled to the Tahitian Islands to compete in the Ori Tahiti Nui world dance championships. She won. Competing ...

Las Vegas(KLAS)-Tevakanui is a performing arts group comprised of children and adults ranging from 5 years old and up, giving them the opportunity to experience Polynesian Culture not just through ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and a local dance studio is giving New Mexico a taste of the tropics. Ka Lā Kapu Polynesian Dance Studio is bringing the ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - In the Windy City, a Chicago couple perpetuate the dances of Polynesia, and neither of them are of Hawaiian or Polynesian descent. They own the Hokulea Academy of Polynesian ...

Tésia Worley wiggles her hips on an exercise ball during a Hulaerobics class at the Kalihi YMCA. Instructor Crystal Gancinia leads Hot Hula Fitness class, held at Hauula Community Park. The class ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — An East Valley Polynesian dance school is sharing the culture and music of the Pacific with Arizona. Tamāli’i Polynesian Entertainment opened in 2015 in Mesa by Dion and Gabrielle ...

The Utah Valley University Cultural Envoy Dancers from the Islands of Polynesia will perform two shows at Northeastern Junior College April 4-5 in the Dorothy Corsberg Theatre inside the E.S. French ...