Our kumu from Hawai'i in 2026
in chronological order of the workshops they teach
Kumu Hula Keali'i Ceballos (Keali'i O Nalani/California)
Hālau Hula Keali‘i O Nālani, under the direction of Kumu Hula Keali‘i Ceballos, was founded in the spring of 1991. Keali‘i draws his love for hula from his mother, Cissylani Ceballos. An avid hula performer and instructor in her own right, “Aunty Cissy” introduced hula to her son.
A hula journeyman, Keali‘i has studied under such renown kumu hula as Robert Uluwehi Cazimero, O’Brien Eselu, Leina‘ala Kalama, George Lanakilakekeahiali‘i Naope, and Kawaikapuokalani Hewitt.
As a Kumu Hula, Keali‘i emphasizes the importance of awareness. He strives in perpetuating the Hawaiian culture - its art, its identity, its language, its sense of ‘ohana. The hālau serves as the vessel in which these legacies are taught and shared through our hula.
Saturday: Hula 'Auana
Kumu Hula Holoua Stender - has been teaching Hawaiian chant and dance classes as part of the regular curriculum at the Kamehameha Schools since 1979. He is a well-known judge at the Hula 'Oni E Festival in Hawai'i.
Saturday: Hula 'Kahiko; Sunday: Hula 'Auana
Keikilaniwahinealiipouna (Puna) lives on Kauai, Hawaii. As record keeper of Hawaiian culture and history, she is an internationally honored elder of the Hawaiian islands. Her family-roots take her far back in time. Her direct ancestors are found in the royal family of the time of the Hawaiian kingdom, as well as in the lineages of the hula masters (kahula), the lua masters (kalua) and the seers (kahuna).
Saturday: Hula 'Auana
Kumu Hula Indira Ikaipo'onalani Ula & Pohai Kealoha Dias - Hālau "Ka Pa Hula O Maui"
Saturday: Oli & Ti Leaf Rossettes (Craft)
Kanoa Kawai - Hālau Hula 'O Hokulani
Saturday: Ukulele, Sunday: Kanikapila
Kumu Hula Hailama Farden - Senior Director of Hawaiian Cultural Affairs. He was already a jury member at the Hula 'Oni E Europe Festival 2023.
Saturday: ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i; Sunday: Hula 'Auana
Hermann Mückler - Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnohistory at the University of Vienna, president of the Anthropological Society in Vienna, as well as of the umbrella organization of all Austrian-foreign bilateral friendship societies PaN, and founder of the Austrian-South Pacific Society.
Saturday: Lecture
Kumu Hula Leinani Lauaki & Kumu Hula Kehaulani Kawai - are the daughters of nā Kumu Hula Hokulani and Larry De Rego who founded Hālau Hula ‘O Hokulani in 1985. The first students of the Hālau was composed by their children and their neighbors that surrounded their Wahiawa home. Today their students expand past Hawaii, into the Orient and across Europe.
Kumu Leinani: Sunday Hula; Kumu Kehaulani: Sunday: Lauhala Weaving