Events
Upcoming Events
Ohana Night at Tiki Terrace features Halau i Ka Pono
1591 Lee Street
Des Plaines, IL
Sunday - February 26, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Performance, Raffle Prizes. All raffle proceeds and a portion of all restaurant sales benefit the Halau.
Call 847-795-8454 for dinner reservations and get a great seat!
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Kumu Hula Michael Pili Pang, MFA comes to Chicago and presents:
* March 29th - 'Uli 'Uli (feathered gourd) Making Workshop 7:30 - 9:30 pm
* March 30th - Lecture/demonstration on the History and Contextual Structure of Hula, Q&A 7 - 8:30 pm
* March 31st - Hula Auana and Hula Kahiko Workshops 9:30 - 3 pm (Lunch included)
* March 31st - Hula Performance, Q& A 7:30 - 9:00 pm
* April 1st - Workshop - complete 'uli'uli, rehearse 2 hulas learned, Q & A and Discussion 9:30 - 1:00 pm (lunch included)
This is a wonderful opportunity to meet one of the most creative and dynamic Kumu Hulas of Hawaii!
Register by the Early Bird Deadline for the Total Package at $200 (save $70): March 12, 2012
Click Here to Register
or mail check to:
Halau i Ka Pono - The Hula School of Chicago
38 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60302
june@halauikapono.org
Call 708-445-1651 for more info.
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Kumu Lomilomi (Hawaiian Massage Master Teacher) Betty Kuliiana Lau
Workshop for Practitioners - June 29th - July 1st, 2012
Couples Workshop - June 28, 2012
Halau i Ka Pono - The Hula School of Chicago
38 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60302
june@halauikapono.org
Past Events
Memorial Benefit for Becky Leialoha Jung
The Box at Lincoln Center, NYC
New York City Hula 'Ohana
September 14, 2011
Halau Hula Ka No'eau's 25th Anniversary Performance
Kahilu Theatre
August 13, 2011
Kamuela, Hawaii
Millenium Park Family Fun Festival - FREE
Halau i Ka Pono presents Hula Kahiko (ancient) and Hula Auana (modern) styles of Hawaiian Hula.
Tuesday, August 2nd
Millenium Park - Chase Promenade North
N. Michigan Ave & E. Randolph St.
Chicago, IL 60602
1 - 2 pm
Chef Shangri-La 35th Anniversary Celebration and fundraiser for North Riverside Youth Scholarship Fund
Sunday, July 10th
Halau i Ka Pono will perform at 2 - 2:45 pm
Advanced tickets are $5 through Chef Shangri-La or $10 at the door
Bring your own lawn chairs
7930 W 26th St.
North Riverside, IL
Spring Concert
Halau i Ka Pono performs traditional and modern hula (Hawaiian Dance) at
Zen Life & Meditation Center's Spring Concert
163 N Humphrey
Oak Park, L 60302 on
Sunday, May 8, 2011 from 2 - 4 pm
Ohana Night at the Tiki Terrace
1591 Lee St.
Des Plaines, IL 60018
www.thetikiterrace.com
847-795-8454
January 16, 2011 7 pm
Peace Concert and Holiday Auction
Zen Buddhist Temple
1710 W. Cornelia Ave, Chicago, IL
Saturday, December 11th at 7pm
2010 Summer Dance Concert
Halau i Ka Pono,
163 N. Humphrey, Oak Park, IL 60302 on
Saturday, July 24, 2010 from 6 – 7:30 pm
 The Hula concert also featured Maui-born, NYC based dancer John-Mario Sevilla who did hula and a modern dance piece he created especially for this occasion.
Originally from Maui, John-Mario directs the Dance Education Laboratory at the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center and is an adjunct professor of dance education at New York University Steinhardt. He was a performer, choreographic collaborator, dance captain and teacher for Pilobolus. John-Mario’s choreography has appeared in New York City at NYU Steinhardt, Dance Theatre Workshop, Columbia University, ABC No Rio, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, The Asia Society, Riverside Church and Bronx Academy of Art and Dance. He is also studying with Halau i Ka Pono in NYC.
Download the summer concert flyer (PDF).
26th International Buddhism Festival
Evanston, IL
June 12, 2010
Halau i Ka Pono hula was nicely mixed in with the Lion Dancers and Vietnamese Dancers of the Truc Lam Temple, the Na Kupuna Ukulele Group, Khmer Traditional Ensemble of the Cambodian Assn of Illinois, and the Sokka Gakkai International Jazz bands at the 26th International Buddhism Festival in Evanston, IL. It was a relaxing day of talks, meditation workshops, woodcarving, Japanese folk dancing and tai chi. Performances were in the evening on stage in the Lake Street Church. It’s always special to have Cissy Plekavic dancing with us. She is the eldest student in the halau – going great at 78 years of age!
Graduation Party for Katie
Waterside Cooperative, Chicago
May 22, 2010
Kumu Hula June Tanoue and the Accidental Hawaiian Crooner were invited to a college graduation party for Katie Moncton. June talked about the origins of the hula, the different forms of ancient and modern and it’s significance today. She translated the Hawaiian words of Keali’i Reichel’s mele Maunaleo that she danced to Jason Poole’s beautiful singing. She taught some hula basic hands and feet movements.
Chicago Aloha Jam – fundraiser for the Hula Association of the Midwest
Chicago, IL
May 22, 2010
The halau helped the Hula Association of the Midwest with their annual fundraiser at the Little Sisters of the Poor in Chicago with a brief kahiko performance. We were also very fortunate to have a guest appearance by the Accidental Hawaiian Crooner, Jason Poole, who sang Maunaleo for us. We also grace the cover of their new cookbook put together by Kathy Griep, the founder of the association.
10th Annual What’s Blooming on Harrison Street Art Show
Oak Park, IL
May 22, 2010
Halau i Ka Pono did a performance at the 10th Annual What's Blooming on Harrison Street Art Show. It's put on by all the businesses on Harrison Street in Oak Park. The beginner Kahiko students did a wonderful job dancing at their first public performance.
Jeff Strauss sang Maunaleo with Jason Poole harmonizing. To have two such fine classically trained singers singing Hawaiian is to die and go to heaven. Maunaleo sounded so magnificent!
6th Annual Sakura Matsuri Festival, Flushing Meadows, New York
Hosted by the Japanese American Association of New York
April 24, 2010
Halau i Ka Pono students danced the hula to Jason Poole’s lovely Hawaiian crooning and Claudia Goddard’s singing in between Japanese dance and taiko drums at the 6th Annual Sakura Matsuri Festival. It was cherry blossom time and spring brought out all of those beautiful flowers, breathtaking to behold.
Halau Brightens Hale Ho’ola
March 31, 2010
Halau i Ka Pono students from New York City and Chicago danced at Hale Ho’ola Hamakua, a state run long term care facility in Honokaa, Hawaii on March 31, 2010. Kumu June Kaililani Tanoue’s mother, Margaret, lives there after having several major strokes. Jason Poole serenaded the residents with his beautiful singing and the students had a wonderful time dancing for such an appreciative audience.
Herbert DeLuz, a resident and president of the residents’ council spoke for everyone there saying that they loved every moment of it. Herbert used to work with Dottie Thompson putting on the Merrie Monarch Festival in Hilo every year.
One of the first hulas that we danced was Halemaumau written by Maddy Lam and Bill Ali’iloa Lincoln. We learned that Bill’s niece, Ellen Tanimoto, was also in the facility. Ellen told us that she lived with Uncle Bill for a little while when she went to school on Oahu. He had a hula halau and made all of the hula instruments that he sold in his shop.
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