N EWS L E TTE R 1 JULY 2009

JULY
KRANK KRANK RIBBON LEI DAY RECITAL
Polynesian Dance Polynesian Dance $10 for materials Invite your family and friends
School Holiday Workshop School Holiday Workshop Logan PCYC to come and watch all that you
Logan PCYC Logan PCYC Come and make your lei and have learned this year!
FREE FREE haku for your recital costume Location/Cost/Food TBD
9:00 - 10:00 am 9:00 - 10:00 am 10 am - 2 pm Time TBD
WED 1st JULY 2009 WED 8th JULY 2009 SAT 29th AUGUST SAT 14th NOVEMBER

WINTER WARMERS GIVEAWAYS!

This winter we will be giving away prizes to those with the highest
ATTENDANCE at classes each MONTH!
This month (JULY) we will include attendance at the KRANK workshops and
FREE FRIDAYS classes during the School Holidays as well as regular Halau
Classes (after the holidays)!

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
HALAU MASCOTS
FREE KRANK WORKSHOPS Ka’iulani Tagata - 3yrs
and Leitualole Tagata - 10months
FREE FRIDAYS Heilani Tahiata - 8months
Ladies! We have some GREAT opportunities for you to continue your dancing
over the school holidays!
We normally close to coincide with state school holidays, but this holiday
season we have a few things happening!
PERFORMANCE
WEDNESDAY MORNINGS: TEAM
We have the KRANK School Holiday Program - where we are
offering FREE Polynesian Dance Workshops at the PCYC from 9am on
both WEDNESDAYS the 1st & 8th of July 2009! This is FREE @ the PCYC!
Arcare Aged Care
FRIDAY EVENINGS: SATURDAY
We are not having our normal TUE / WED evening classes, but are 11th JULY 2009
offering FRIDAY evening classes as normal. These classes will be FREE 8 Janice St
for the SCHOOL HOLIDAYS (6-8pm @ the PCYC)! Slacks Creek Qld
REMEMBER: 4127
No classes on Tuesday and Wednesday, during the SCHOOL HOLIDAYS! 10:30 am
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS:
Wednesday Mornings (9am) - FREE Polynesian WORKSHOPS
Friday Evenings (6-8pm) - FREE Performance Team Classes

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 NE WS L E TTE R JULY 1 JULY 2009

BPAC
Heilani
Polynesian School of Arts
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Lot 7 Jacaranda Avenue
Logan Central, QLD Congratulations to all those that participated in the BPAC Competition!
We received a HIGHLY COMMENDED AWARD and were very pleased to see other groups
4114
competing in the 1st cultural section! This was just the first year - and now that they have seen
what we have to offer - we are going to be able to help them create appropriate judging
Phone: (07) 3442 1700
criteria for this section!
Fax: (07) 3808 7834 VIEW PHOTOS: http://picasaweb.google.com/HeilaniProductions/BPAC2009#
Mobile: (04) 1476 8593
Website:
www.heilani.com
CURRICULUM
Email: info@heilani.com We have completed our Hawaiian ‘Oli “E Pele E Pele” and Kahiko “Aia La o Pele”.
Videos: http:// Make sure to have the words and actions MEMORIZED!
au.youtube.com/user/ PLEASE USE THE CLASS page on the HEILANI WEBSITE
http://www.heilani.com/Dance_Classes.html
heilaniproductions
as a tool to practice (the words and music are both on there).
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Please use the WEBSITE as
This term we will be introducing some SAMOAN on Tuesday and Wednesday.
a tool to help you practice
We will be learning more MAORI on Fridays (Performance Team).
and improve at home. The
words, music and videos
are on the DANCE CLASS FAMILY RATES
page of the website! Don’t forget that we have special rates available for families of 2 or more!
See instructors for more information!

SU N MO N TU ES WED T HU R FR I SAT
KRANK 1 2 3 4
SCHOOL POLYNESIAN FREE FRIDAYS
HOLIDAYS WORKSHOP for
No Halau @ PCYC School Holidays
9 - 10am 6 - 8 pm

5 6 7 KRANK 8 9 10 PERFORM 11
SCHOOL POLYNESIAN FREE FRIDAYS Arcare
HOLIDAYS WORKSHOP for Aged Care
No Halau @ PCYC School Holidays Off Paradise Rd
9 - 10am 6 - 8 pm 10:30 am
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
HALAU HALAU
6 - 8pm 6 - 8pm Performance
Introducing Introducing Team
Samoan Samoan 6 - 8pm
19 20 21 22 23 24
HALAU HALAU
6 - 8pm 6 - 8pm Performance
Introducing Introducing Team
Samoan Samoan 6 - 8pm
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HEILANI UNIFORMS

Heilani
FULL-ZIP
FLEECE HOODIES

AVAILABLE NOW
$35
T-SHIRTS SINGLETS
$15.00 $15.00
PA’U SKIRT RAYON PAREU
$25.00 $10.00

!ORDER NOW!
Let us know if you would like to purchase a
T-SHIRT, SINGLET or HOODIE
as we will place the order
NO LATER THAN
the end of the month!

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 HEILANI FUN PAGES

LANGUAGE LESSON

1, 2, 3, 4

Hawaii - Ekahi, Elua, Ekolu, Eha

Tahiti - Tahi, Rua, Toru, Ha
Maori - Tahi, Rua, Toru, Wha
Samoa - Tasi, Lua, Tolu, Fa

SHOYU
CHICKEN

Shoyu - A dark, salty sauce made

from fermenting boiled soybeans
and roasted wheat or barley.
Extremely popular in the Orient;
used to flavor fish, meat,
marinades, sauces, soups, and
vegetables. Better known as “soy sauce.”

Everyone seems to have their own special recipe for shoyu chicken dishes, some people add
orange juice or tomato sauce while others prefer to bake the chicken. No matter how it’s
made, the chicken is usually very tender and delicious. Here is the easy way to do it.
Easy Shoyu Chicken
• 5 lb chicken
• 1 c shoyu
• 1 c sugar
• 1 c water

Combine ingredients in a large pot and cook on low for 2 hours. Chicken will be tender and
fall off the bone.
Notes: I usually use skinless chicken to cut down on the fat. I like to add fresh ginger and
garlic to the sauce while its simmering. Chunky chopped Chinese cabbage can be placed in
the pot just before the cooking is done so the cabbage is soft but not mushy. Garnish your
dish with fresh chopped green onions.
 ORIGAMI
HONU
(Turtle)

A. Cut out origami along outer solid lines.

B. Fold up along line A. Unfold.
C. Fold down along line B. Unfold.

A. Turn paper over so that printed side is facing down.

B. Fold up along diagonal line C. Unfold.
C. Fold up along diagonal line D. Unfold.

A. Fold down along diagonal line E. Unfold.

B. Fold down along diagonal line F. Unfold.
C. Your origami should now be creased as illustrated.

A. Turn your turtle over, so that the printed side is facing

up.
B. Fold side of shell under as shown.
C. Repeat on other side.
D. Fold top of shell under.

A. Fold bottom half up along creases as shown.

B. Fold top half down along creases as shown.
C. Your origami should appear as illustrated.

"Accordian" fold the tail by tucking it

back, then folding it forward. Your honu is pau (finished)!

A. Fold head up.

B. Fold rear flipper down as shown.
C. Repeat on other side.
 THE HISTORY OF HULA

The Hawaiians inherited from the Polynesians their complex cosmology or world view. Most
archaeologists agree that migration from Polynesia to Hawaii was in two parts, probably from the
Marquesas in the sixth century A.D. and from the Society Islands eight hundred years later. Thus, fleet
wooden double-hulled canoes made the volcanic islands of Hawaii a northern extension of the rich
Polynesian cultural area.

Like the ancient Greeks, the Polynesians had a pantheon of gods and a body of myths describing the
supernaturals, usually human, often divine.

Hula was part of the Polynesian culture. Stories about the gods, and historical events were passed on in
the oral tradition by oli (chants) and mele (songs accompanied by music and dance). The apo (male or
female chanter) was able to recall and repeat chants for hours without error. In this way, sacred lore
passed from one generation to the next. Oli and mele were similar to modern poetry; they utilized interior
rhyme, hidden meanings, multi-leveled symbolism, unifying repetition, anger, embarrassment, joy, grief,
honor – and humor.

Dances were an integral part of the culture when Captain Cook landed on the Island of Kaua`i in 1778,
discovering for the Euro-American Civilization this last outpost of Oceanic Islands. With the arrival of
Western ideals in the islands, the dynasties of the Hawaiian kings alternately cherished or crippled the
indigenous culture. Western ideals flourished alongside the people’s growing impatience with kapu and
restrictions of the ancient religion.

Forty years after Cook’s appearance, the ruling Queen Ka’ahumanu became a Christian, and in a move
leading to the end of formalized Hawaiian rituals, ordered all heiau (sacred temple sites) and images
destroyed. The significance of the dances had gradually been lost to general understanding.

Hawaiian hula went underground. Dancers glorified the gods and entertained friends and families in
remote sections of the islands. Kumu (teacher) instructed and haumana (student) performed, but in
secret. Once suppressed, hula became a titillating idea that the more enterprising white entrepreneurs
exploited. They presented exotic dances surreptitiously for seamen’s amusement. The Hawaiians were
delighted to take part, since to them all hula had equal importance. It was at this point that hula began to
accumulate its forlorn reputation of exotic and/or bawdy entertainment for sailors and tourists.

In 1830’s, King Kamehameha III issued an edict guaranteeing religious freedom and tried to re-establish
the centrality of hula in Hawaiian culture. At this time the missionaries recognized that Hawaiian dance
could not be quelled, but countered with the condition that dancers wear the Victorian-style high necked,
long sleeved gown (holoku) that they had substituted for the pa’u.
The personage of King Kalakaua, however, elected to a puppet leadership in 1874, was a temporary
light. He healed his culture and raised hula to a national symbol. Fun loving, politically astute, he enjoyed
celebrations, festivals and world traveling, earning himself the title of “The Merrie Monarch”. He linked
waltzes and classical music with traditional hula at great royal celebrations. What appeared as frivolity
was a wisdom that forged a permanent place for hula in Hawaii's future culture.

King Kalakaua said: ”The hula is the heartbeat of the Hawaiian people.”

After Kalakaua’s death and without the nurturing of Hawaiian royalty, hula resumed its former character
of superficial entertainment in an enigmatic culture. Tourism promoted hula as a national symbol, as a
product drained of meaning and focused on vacuous words, music and movement.

Meanwhile, the kumu guarded lore, chants and movements of the sacred hula and transmitted them to
the haumana. In the twentieth century, young women and men continued to be trained in the secrets of
the traditional hula, instilling the value of tradition. Hula will not become lost.