The Big Show

Today we had the "Big Show" for our hula school. It's what our hula master ("kumu"), Josie, calls it. All year we practice for the big show and now it's finally here! Too bad Paul missed it, since it's our (mine and Holly's) first one.

We had to go early for a rehearsal on the actual stage before the show. You can see Holly in the middle watching her teacher, Rani, and Cassie standing to Holly's left.














A short clip of the "Hibiscus Hula" in rehearsal (yes, if you can hear it, it's Mickey and Minnie Mouse singing).


This is the poi ball song (poi are practised by the Maori in New Zealand) - the song is called Piki Mai:


Practising their Tahitian dance - Te Hora Bora Bora!

















This group performed a dance called Seabreeze:
Mimi (Cassie's mom), Kim, Anita, Cindy, Siobhan, Molly, Me (top row)
Sulay, Frankie, Diana.














Couldn't resist including this picture of Frankie.














Holly was in 3 dances - yes, she has more costumes than I do! This one is for the Hibiscus Hula.





































I had to sneak a shot during the show because the ushers were making people put away their cameras! Because some of us were only doing 2 dances, we bought tickets so we could sit and watch the show in between our performances.














Holly got flowers after the show! And we took a picture with Josie after our first "big show"!