History of Sitting Hawaiian Hula Dance

Video Transcript

"Well on this segment we're going to talk about the Noho hula, which is called the sitting hula. It is said that back in the day, way back, the men did the hula and the women sat down and watched. They would imitate the hand movements while they were sitting down, so that, that evolved as a dance and eventually the women got off their feet and ended up dancing the hula. As the same as with the men. The stance for sitting, is basically feet together, you're sitting on your heels, your skirt is spread out and you can either do your hula which is mostly ancient or do an implement dance to it with the Uli-Uli or the Ipu. So I'm going to do the first part of chant called the hana chant, which is the hand movements and the ipu."