This 1989 film, from famed filmmaker Robert Mugge about Hawaiian dance, explores Hawaiian dance traditions going back to 500AD, when Polynesians arrived in the islands. Those traditions have been passed on from generation to generation by kahuna (priests and sages) and kumu hula (master teachers).
Kumu Hula: Keepers of a Culture
Robert Mugge examines the moribund traditions of the Kumu Hula, master instructors in the ancient Hawaiian art of the hula.
