WOULD YOU PASS THIS OFF AS ʻIKE OR MANAʻO?
"Creativity is good, but keep it within the style that you learned and that is one thing that she always stressed [re: Iolani Luahine] and what you have learned from me you teach it the same way. And that's the way tradition will follow through. Don't change any of um. When you do change then it becomes unpure. Not as pure as the way you learned it. You gonna teach your students another way. If they went out and teached, be instructors, and change it what would happen to the hula after? It won't be the same. It'll be different."
-Aunty Hoakalei Kamauu (Na hula kahiko [video recording], KITV, c1994, 49 minutes, search Sinclair Streaming @ UH Voyager database; you must have a MYUH account to sign in)
One's answer would make transparent one's mentality.
"Creativity is good, but keep it within the style that you learned and that is one thing that she always stressed [re: Iolani Luahine] and what you have learned from me you teach it the same way. And that's the way tradition will follow through. Don't change any of um. When you do change then it becomes unpure. Not as pure as the way you learned it. You gonna teach your students another way. If they went out and teached, be instructors, and change it what would happen to the hula after? It won't be the same. It'll be different."
-Aunty Hoakalei Kamauu (Na hula kahiko [video recording], KITV, c1994, 49 minutes, search Sinclair Streaming @ UH Voyager database; you must have a MYUH account to sign in)
One's answer would make transparent one's mentality.