Word: kau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman wearing a crown of green mountain ferns and drapery that looks vaguely Grecian stands alone, arms upraised, and chants in a strong voice to ancient gods. This is polite and also prudent. Kau'i Zuttermeister, 78, is a hula dancer, and she accepts mainland Christianity, first brought to the Hawaiian Islands in 1820 by missionaries. But her uncle Sam Pua Haaheo, an elderly kahuna, or expert practitioner, who taught her the chants, dances and drumming patterns of traditional hula 60 years ago, told her to "pray first to the gods of your forefathers. They were here first...
When Zuttermeister was young, the ancient, traditional hula -- hula kahiko -- had nearly died out. Islanders with Hawaiian blood took little pride in their ancestry, and cellophane-skirt-and-ukulele imitation hulas were staged mostly for tourists. But her husband Carl, a German immigrant, was proud of Kau'i's Hawaiian blood and persuaded her to learn what her uncle had to teach...
...Design Group, was looking for "something to animate the space," said Co-President David K. Kau...
...organization and the Office for the Arts co-sponsored the competition, which gave contestants a $450 budget--funded by the office--and selected. "Yin-Yang/Penguin-Iceberg" because "the whole notion of introducing this totally foreign and totally ridiculous environment would make students think about why this is ridiculous," Kau said...
...larceny, Kau said, "We expected them to get stolen and the conceptual idea of penguins spreading through- out the campus was sort of amusing...