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Brea · 03-27-2008, 12:54 AM

I always felt that there was a very big difference between hula and bellydance. Hula is a story told with the hands and the dancers use (mostly) their feet to produce the moves, aside from a few things like mayas. Since the point of hula is to tell a story with the hands removing that element seems like it's just a bellydancer in a grass skirt to me.

Here is some Hawaiian hula at the Merrie Monarch festival; see if you can spot the difference between the two forms of dance (by which I mean bellydance and hula):

YouTube - Merrie Monarch 2006

YouTube - Halau Mohala `Ilima (Auana Wahine) Merrie Monarch 2007

03-27-2008, 12:54 AM	#4 (permalink)
Brea V.I.P. Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: USA Posts: 1,283	I always felt that there was a very big difference between hula and bellydance. Hula is a story told with the hands and the dancers use (mostly) their feet to produce the moves, aside from a few things like mayas. Since the point of hula is to tell a story with the hands removing that element seems like it's just a bellydancer in a grass skirt to me. Here is some Hawaiian hula at the Merrie Monarch festival; see if you can spot the difference between the two forms of dance (by which I mean bellydance and hula): YouTube - Merrie Monarch 2006 YouTube - Halau Mohala `Ilima (Auana Wahine) Merrie Monarch 2007 __________________ www.breamorgiane.com Last edited by Brea; 03-27-2008 at 01:22 AM.