Hālau Hula Nāpuaokaleiʻilima
Past Performances
List of Past Performances
Our Annual Hōʻike (our hula exhibition show the first or second Saturday in November)
2022 Hoʻike
2019 Hōʻike
2018 Hōʻike
2017 Hōʻike
2016 Hōʻike
2015 Hoʻike
Arizona Aloha Festival (yearly, usually held on the third weekend in March at Tempe Beach park)
2024 Arizona Aloha Festival
2023 Arizona Aloha Festival
2022 Arizona Aloha Festival
2019 Arizona Aloha Festival
2019 Arizona Aloha Festival
Performance with 2-time Grammy Award Winner, Kalani Peʻa, at the Coconino Center for the Arts
Kumu’s solo to ʻAkaka Falls
Kumu, Wanda, Paula & Annette (Moi) hula to Kalani Peʻa’s Kuʻu Poliʻahu
Performances & Presentations at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix, Arizona
Kahiko (ancient style) hula performed at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix, Arizona - 2015
ʻAuana (modern style) hula performed at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix, Arizona - 2015
Kahiko hula style - performing the Kaulilua chant
Kumu Hula Kēhau Chrisman using her Ipu Heke - a gift crafted by her husband & Hawaiian Cultural Scholar, Kaʻimiloa Chrisman
Kahiko hula style - performing the Kaulilua chant
Performances with renown Hawaiian group, HAPA at the Orpheum Theater & the Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff and at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix, Arizona
Backstage with HAPA & Kumu Hula Kēhau Chrisman
Hālau Hula Nāpuaokaleiʻilima performing with HAPA at the Orpheum Theater in Flagstaff
Check back to view a video from the HAPA concert where our Hālau danced hula to Tapaʻo No Te Here. Click here to view more HAPA videos.
Kumu dancing to Lei Pīkake performed by HAPA at the MIM
Performance at the annual Kumukahi Hula & ʻUkulele Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada
Backstage at Kumukahi, our ‘Auana Wahine soloist, Seana Keanapuni Brackbill, with Kumu Kēhau Chrisman
A proud Kumu observes her haumāna recognizing their great expression throughout - nicely done!
Kumu and Vaughn Kalawa & his Band are ready
Carrying on our Lineage
Hālau Hula Napuaokaleiʻilima normally declines from participating in any competition. However, given the opportunity to display our style of hula, Kumukahi was a great experience, no matter if it is or isn’t a competition. It was an experience of a lifetime, bringing our Haumāna closer together, experiencing dancing to live music and hearing the roar and applause of our hula haumāna and family who came to support the dancers. Truly, to experience the love and support from our Kumu and haumāna and to carry on the lineage of our Aunti Maiki Aiu Lake will stay will us forever.
The Reactionary Panel (judges) - all Kumu Hulas from Hawai’i & the Mainland at the Kumukahi Hula & ʻUkulele Festival - August 2016
A Pictorial History of their Cottonwood Tree Leaf Lei - made for the Kumukahi performance
The Cottonwood Tree Leaf
Assembling the lei
Excellent workmanship
The finished lei accented with red carnation lei
Fresh leis were required of all Hula Division entrants. This is not an easy feat here in the arid Arizona high desert. But, Kumu “had a dream”. We made leis, wili-style, out of the leaves of the Cottonwood Trees, which grow abundantly along the Verde River in Central Arizona.
Hula is Life Presentation & Performance - Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff Arizona
A collage of Kahiko & ʻAuana Hula demonstrations at the Hula is Life presentation
Flagstaff Arts Council’s Stories To Life featured Hālau Hula Nāpuaokalei’ilima in Hula is Life Presentation & Performance
We were invited to share of knowledge our hula in a 2-hour presentation at the Coconino Center for the Arts. The presentation was more lecture and storytelling. Through hula, the stories of our ancestors, of famous places, of notable people, and important events get passed on from one generation to the next. We presented Kahiko (ancient) hula and ‘Auana (modern) hula.
Performance at Heard Museum 50th Anniversary Indian Fair & Marketplace - Phoenix, Arizona
Kumu Kēhau Chrisman & Ka’imiloa Chrisman talk story sharing Hawaiian Culture protocol.
Hālau Hula Nāpuaokaleiʻilima dance Kahiko (ancient) Hula.
Kaʻimiloa Chrisman presents a cultural lecture about the Hawaiian drum (pahu) and the unique double gourd drum (ipu heke) at the 50th anniversary of the Heard Museum in Phoenix
Additional Past Performances
Opening Act for Music Concert by Hawaiian musicians, Ledward Kaʻapana and Mike Kaʻawa in Prescott, Arizona
Pre-show performances at “Movies on the Square” in Flagstaff, Arizona
Opening Act for Music Concert by Hawaiian musician, John Keawe in Prescott, Arizona
Yavapai College Cultural Anthropology Lectures/Demonstrations, Prescott and the Verde Valley, Arizona
Festival of Native American Culture in Sedona, Arizona
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Hawaiian Club performances in Prescott, Arizona