American Aloha Hula Beyond Hawaii (2003)

American Aloha Hula Beyond Hawaii shows the survival of the hula as a renaissance continues to grow beyond the islands With the cost of living in Hawaii estimated at 27 percent higher than the continental United States large numbers of Hawaiians have left the islands to pursue professional and educational opportunities Today with more Native Hawaiians living on the mainland than in the state of Hawaii the hula has traveled with them From the suburbs of Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area the largest Hawaiian communities have settled in California and the hula continues to connect communities to their heritage on distant shores