The Waianae Coast

Are you merely curious about Dance Events in the West or do you really care? Most of the reader/dancers who read this blog are believers. They believe in fairness, compassion, optimism and hope.

They believe in the essential goodness of the world. That problems can be solved. That too many rules in dancing can be alleviated and that dancing for the common folk can be saved. And we are well on our way in the West, And that's the way it gotta be, slowly but surely.

"No two dancers ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is

impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in

different dancers but in the same dancers at different times."

From the Wikipedia: In the early 1900s European and American dancers started to rebel against the rigid constraints of Classical Ballet. Shedding the authoritarian controls surrounding classical ballet technique, costume, and shoes, these early modern dance pioneers focused on creative self-expression rather than on technical virtuosity.

Modern dance is a more relaxed, free style of dance in which choreographers use emotions and moods to design their own steps, in contrast to ballet's structured code of steps. It has a deliberate use of gravity, whereas ballet is rigid in its technique. Because of the common history, the two forms (classical ballet and modern) share a similar terminology and structure.

Modern dance is a term that applies to a variety of different disciplines, all with subtly different techniques, that responded to the imperialism of ballet through varying, culturally specific catalytic factors.

Fishing Theme in Waianae:

Fishing For A Dream, Fishing Near and Far,

His Line A Silver Moonbeam, His Bait A Silver Star.

Growing up in Makaha, the late pioneer surfer Rell Kapolioka`ehukai (Heart of the Sea) Sunn slept not with dolls but with her surfboards.

      “Before I could read words, I could read the ocean, I could read the tides, the wind on the ocean,” she recalled. “I thought I knew everything I ever needed to know just from being on the beach. Everything.”

That knowledge nurtured the Native Hawaiian water woman throughout her life. It gave her a competitive edge during her vibrant pro- fessional surfing career, then offered healing refuge in a 15-year battle against cancer that finally claimed her in the prime of her life.

 The Community Center overlooking the ocean on Nanakuli Beach.

We need to take better care of our beaches on the West Coast. They are not only for use of the moneyed class at Ko'Olina. And of course, our Dance Palace, community center on the Nanakuli Beach should be first on the agenda.

Though there is little dancing in Nanakuli, a new group with a new blog is forming ever so slowly. The Nanakuli Ridge. And the founders are only four separate locations. The Nanaikeola Senior Apartments, the Kokua Mau Work Center, Shelly's Hair Studio and the Ono Steak and Shrimp in front of Food Giant. From there we go left and right, down Farrington. You want to see the blog?  Just click the "Nanakuli Ridge" in the side bar. Not much there yet.