Dance review: Island tales inspire Palace of Fine Arts hula show

Photo by Lin Cariffe

Long before the Internet, the highly literate Hawaiians of the mid-19th and early 20th centuries tracked, recorded and celebrated Hawaiian life in hundreds of native-language newspapers.

Poems by kings, serialized epics about gods and goddesses, political essays - all this and more inspired Patrick Makuakane's latest evening-length hula show, "Ka Leo Kanaka" or "The Voice of the People," which Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu premiered on Saturday night at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre.

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