Aloha kakou!

This is the first post on the new Wahine ʻO Renton blog! This blog will be only available for view by current hula students at the Renton Seniors Activity Center.

Its purpose is for learning, for announcements, for fun! So letʻs begin....

Last week in class, I wrote a few Hawaiian words on the board for you. Here they are again:

Numbers:
ʻekahi         one
ʻelua           two
ʻekolu         three
ʻeha            four

You will be mostly likely to hear these numbers as part of your hula movement vocabulary. Many times the "ʻekahi" will be assumed, not spoken, ie.

Kawelu                            forward on the right/forward on the left
Kawelu ʻelua                   forward on the right/back on the left
Kawelu ʻekolu                 back on the right, back on the left


Direction:

i mua (imua)                    move forward

ma hope (mahope)          move back

akau                                 to the right

hema                                to the left

Youʻll hear "imua" and "mahope" with these steps: lele and ʻulei.

Two phrases we *didnʻt* cover were:

i luna                               up

i lalo                                down

You will hear these directions when you dance this step: kaʻo