“It’s that thought that someone just learned hula at a workshop and now all of a sudden, they [think they] can start teaching hula themselves,” explains Kahealani Kamahele, a professor of Dance of Hawaii at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and owner of Hālau Hula O Kāhealani in Torrance, California. “You are seeing more videos on YouTube of people claiming to do ‘hula’ that is not hula, and it brings our traditions and our style of hula down.”
Source: Dance Teacher
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