A hālau is Hawaiian word meaning a school, academy, or group. Literally, the word means "a branch from which many leaves grow." Today a hālau usually describes a hula school (hālau hula). The teacher at the hālau is the kumu hula, where kumu means source of knowledge, or literally just teacher.

Much has changed since then, but what makes a hālau is still the same. The word kumu literally means source, foundation and origin. A kumu hula (hula teacher) is a master teacher of Hawaiian dances, embodying the qualities of artist, manager and religious leader.

A hālau hula (Hawaiian pronunciation: [haːˈlɐw ˈhulə]) is a school or hall in which the Hawaiian dance form called hula is taught. The term comes from hālau, literally, "long house, as for canoes or hula instruction"; "meeting house" [1], and hula, …

Hālau Hula ʻO Hokulani was founded in 1985 by Aunty Hokulani and her husband Uncle Larry. The first students of the Hālau was composed by their children and their neighbors that surrounded their Wahiawa home. Today, the students of our Hālau now expand past Hawaii, into the Orient and across Europe.

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Hālau Hi'iakaināmakalehua is a formal hula school with classes that includes all aspects of the Hawaiian cultural practice, hula according to the traditions and beliefs of Kumu Hula, Robert Keano Kaupu IV and Lono Padilla.

We educate and instill the values of Hawaiian culture through language, chant and dance. We encourage the development of skills and knowledge as being part of a caring, respectful …

At Kahikilaulani we strive to integrate Hawaiian culture, `Olelo Hawai`i (language), historical knowledge and folklore, crafting, art, lei making, and community workshops into our daily hula instruction.

Hālau o Kekuhi is celebrated for its mastery of the ʻaihaʻa style of hula (dance) and oli (chant). The ʻaihaʻa is a low-postured, vigorous, bombastic style of hula that springs from the eruptive volcano personas of Pele and Hiʻiaka, characteristic of Hawaiʻi Island's creative forces.

1. n., Long house, as for canoes or hula instruction; meeting house. Malu hālau loa, shade of the long house; figuratively, shade of trees. Ā ua nui Hilo, hālau lani i ke ao (chant), and Hilo rains so much, a heavenly shed in the clouds. PNP folau. 2. vs., Large, numerous; much. Ka wai hālau o Wailua (For. 4:163), expansive waters of Wailua.