Merrie Monarch Needs Tweaking Comment(s)

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I understand the Merrie Monarch judges’ desire to preserve tradition.  I am Filipino-Japanese-Hawaiian-German ancestry, and it’s hard trying to pass that on to my keiki.  But I have attended the MM, and, like anyone, I hear about and can see the favoritism and politics.  On the other hand, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area now, and I see the best traditional and best innovative hula going on here.  Kumus hula, including Patrick Makuakane, Mark Ho’omalu, Kawika Alfiche, and many others are pursuing both very traditional forms and expanding the vocabulary of both kahiko and auana hula. I was in Japan last year, and there I also saw much great hula in both forms.  So, I ask, does hula belong to the islands any more, or is it now, like English, a language for the world?

Posted by ManukuSV  on  05/03  at  09:52 PM

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