Halau History
1972 - Kumu Roselle Keli`ihonipua Bailey started officially teaching Hula at her home in Kaumakani, Kaua`i, and named her school Kahiko Halapa`i Hula Alapa`i.
1974 until 1993 - Ka `Imi Na`auao `O Hawai`i Nei was the Kahu of Keahualaka and Kauluapaoa at Ha`ena, Kaua`i. The organization cleared and reactivated the mana of the above named area and returned them to their original and intended use.
1977 - Roselle Bailey founded the Eleemosynary Research Institute, Ka `Imi Na`auao O Hawai`i Nei, as a nonprofit organization, under which she placed her school Kahiko Halapa`i Hula Alapa`i. Roselle Bailey continued being Kumu of Kahiko Halapa`i Hula Alapa`i until she moved back to her home-island Maui in 1994.
1979 - One of the first “offsprings” of Kahiko Ha Lapa I Hula Alapa`i was called Hula Alapa`i I Noho I Kuali`i and founded in Hilo by Sharon Ioana and Pohakalani Dawn Bailey, daughters of Roselle Bailey.
1981 - Sharon Ioana Bailey moved to the island of Maui, where she founded the school Hula Alapa`i I Maluuluolele. Sharon Ioana Balidoy continues being Kumu of the halau to this day.
1982 to 1985 - The halau Hula Alapa`i `O Wailana was under the leadership of Sherrie Wailana Hamamura on the island of Kaua`i.
1988 - The leadership of Hula Alapa`i I Noho I Kuali`i was handed over to Cheryl Hi`ipoikealohalaniki`eki`e Ho, a former student of Roselle, Sharon and Pohakalani Bailey. The halau is to this day under her direction.
1988 - Pohakalani Bailey moved with her husband Paletti Mauga to Fatura Futi on the South Pacific Island of Samoa, where she founded the halau Pohaka La I Hula Alapa`i `O Ka Lani, which is under her direction to this day.
1980 - Jessie Keakawaiola Jardin, also a former student of Roselle Bailey, founded the halau Ha`awi Hemolele O Keakawaiola, on the island of Kaua`i. In 1992 Kumu Jessie Keakawaiola Jardin and her halau joined Ka `Imi Na`auao `O Hawai`i Nei and are active members to this day.
1994 - Roselle Bailey moved back to Maui, where she and her husband Jim are living now, and the leadership of Kahiko Halapa`i Hula Alapa`i was handed over to her former student Susan Puaokamakahala Ahlfield. Within a year the school was renamed to Kahiko Ha Lapa I Hula Alapa`i.
1996 - Susan Puaokamakahala Ahlfield moved with her family to Virginia, where she now resides, and left Kahiko Ha Lapa I Hula Alapa`i under the direction of Sally Jo Keahi Manea, also a former student of Roselle Bailey.
1998 - Puamohala Kaholokula, who has studied hula with Roselle Bailey since childhood, founded the halau Mohala `O Ka Pua Hau Hele on the island of Kaua`i and joined Ka `Imi Na`auao `O Hawai`i Nei in the year 2000.
2000 - Sally Jo Keahi Manea handed over the leadership of Kahiko Ha Lapa I Hula Alapa`i to Jane Kawaiolaonamolokama Garma, who has studied Hula with Roselle Bailey since age of five.
2001 - Lynn Kananiokeanuenue Roth, a student of Roselle Bailey since 1976, founded the halau Kahiko Ha Lapa I Hula Alapa`i `O Ke Anuenue in Greenbrae, California under the umbrella of Ka `Imi Na`auao `O Hawai`i Nei.
2001 - Luana Baumann, a student of Roselle Bailey, assembled the dancers in Berlin to organize the halau Luana Na Manu I Hula Alapa'i A Berlin.
Cultural Exchanges
In the early eighties and nineties Ka `Imi Na`auao `O Hawai`i Nei sponsored various cultural exchanges throughout the South Pacific and North America.
Several times the non-profit organization was invited, and has also hosted the people of Te Whare Wananga O Waikato in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Also the tribe of Saanich of Vancouver Island and the Salish of Ruby Creek, Frazier River Valley, Canada. In the United States Ka `Imi did cultural exchanges with the Omaha of Nebraska.
Participation at Hula Festivals
1. 1973 to 1983 Merry Monarch Festival, Hawai`i
2. 1986 to 1997 Prince Lot Festival, Oahu
3. 1989 to present day Queen Emma Festival, Kaua`i
Workshops on Hawai`ian Culture
Throughout the years, Ka `Imi Na`auao O Hawai`i Nei is offering frequent workshops on Hawai`ian history and protocol, child rearing, science, medicine ethnobotany, lei making, crafts and hula. These workshops are being held on the islands of Hawai`i, as well as the U.S. Mainland (California) and Europe (Basel, Heidelberg, Munich, Berlin).
Publications of Ka `Imi Na`auao `O Hawai`i Nei
Books & Magazines:
1. Hula Historical Perspectives
(Bishop Museum; Pacific Anthropological Records # 30; 1980. ISSN 0078-740X)
2. The Hula (by Jerry Hopkins)
3. Images of the Hula (by Boone Morrison)
4. Nana I Na Loea Hula
5. Reflections of Kaua`i (by Penny Pence Smith, 1989)
6. Arts of Asia (Sept./October 1985)
7. Historic Hawai`i Foundation (Dec. 1989; Jan./Feb. 1991; April l991)
8. Kaua`i Magazine (Vol. 1, No.5, 1985)
Video & Television:
1. Flight Of The Canyon Bird
(1992 Video Rights Group, POB 88127, Honolulu, HI 96830, 808-922-6753)
2. Kumu Hula – Keepers of a Culture (R. Mugge, N. Abercrombie, 1989, Mug Shot Prod.)
3. Kaua`i Now And Then (Terrence Moller, Hanalei, 1993)
4. The Heirs Of Lata (1998, Vaka Taumako Project, www.vaka.org)
5. Hawai`i Public Television:
a) Na Hana No`eau
b) Legacy of Excellence (State Foundation for Culture & The Arts)
c) West Kaua`i d) Hawai`i Art Academy
6. Unknown Hawai`i (in Japanese)
7. Gaia (in Japanese)
