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| | Hula : The Dance of Hawaii (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | This oral component of hula, the spoken or chanted words, is an essential part of what hula is. In hula, the hands always tell a story, and dancers always accompany poetry. |
 | | Like Tahitian dance, hula has a long proud history, and as it spent less time underground during the missionary period (roughly half a century, as opposed to a century and a half in Tahiti), it has been, some think, able to retain a larger body of its ancient traditions. |
 | | Within the hula tradition, people commonly refer to two hula styles: the ancient or traditional style, kahiko¸ which is a deeply ceremonial and serious form, danced to chants; and the auana or modern hula, which is very flowing, danced to songs, and the form of hula most familiar to the average public. |
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