The Spirit of Hula - pictures and descriptions of hula organizations in Hawaii.

"SPIRIT OF HULA"

(The great hula coffee table book for $24.95 special price.)

One of the most comprehensive books on the hula in Hawaii. It contains great pictures and descriptions of hula organizations in Hawaii.

Author Shari Iolani Floyd Berinobis

Aÿohe pau ka ÿike i ka hälau hoÿokahi.

(All knowledge is not taught in the same school).

(Honolulu, HI, 9/1/04)

Hälau from Hawai'i, the U.S.mainland,Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, and Mexico share photos and stories that celebrate hula worldwide in the new book The Spirit of Hula. With over 300 photographs, 70 stories, commentaries on hula, Hawaiian healing, and lei making in Japan, The Spirit of Hula is a book that every student and fan of hula will treasure.

With deepest respect for the roots of hula, Shari ÿIolani Floyd Berinobis presents 68 examples of its flowering throughout the world: 26 hälau from Hawaiÿi, 28 from the U.S. mainland, and 14 from other countries. The teachers and their students share their love of hula, acknowledging those who inspired and guided them, revealing their philosophies, and describing their memorable performances and achievements. In these stories and photographs, which portray their joy in the dance, the spirit of hula is apparent.

Contact: Shari Berinobis at: 808 853 9456. Email: Hulala143@aol.com

"Author"

Author Shari Iolani Floyd Berinobis

For the first two years of her life, Shari ÿIolani Floyd Berinobis lived at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, where the staff gave her the Hawaiian name ÿIolani. The daughter of conductor, composer, and recording artist Chick Floyd and Allene Floyd, Shari grew up around entertainers and musicians like Martin Denny, Marlene Sai, Ed Kenney, Haunani Kahalewai, Pua Almeida, Will Brady, Sonny Kamahele, Charles Kaipo Miller, Danny Stewart, Mel Peterson, and Sonny Nicholas, and hula dancers Mamo Howell, Manu Bentley, Little Leilani Bermudez, and Auntie ÿIolani Luahine. To “keep her busy,” Auntie ÿIo had ten-year-old Shari develop graceful hula hands by rotating her wrists in circles while opening and closing her fingers. During those early years, Pua and Leilani Almeida embraced Shari as a hänai daughter, and she and her hänai sister, Hula, shared many kolohe adventures.

Later, Shari studied hula with Eleanor Hiram Hoke and Tahitian dancing with Kauÿi and Jack Brant; as a high school student, she and classmates Leimomi Ho (now kumu hula of Kealiÿikaÿapunihonua Keÿena ÿO Hula) and Shirley Kanemura Recca (now kumu hula of Hälau Hula ÿO Namakahulali) performed hula at assemblies.

In the early 1970s, at a memorial show for Alfred Apaka, held at the Waikïkï Shell, Shari danced two numbers—one as Ed Kenney sang “ ÿIolani,” a song her father composed for her sixteenth birthday.

In 1981, Shari married Tito Berinobis, an entertainer who was then performing for the late Loyal Garner. They have two daughters, Tiana Kapuamakaÿalaonamakua, and Shaylene Noel Piÿilani. In 1990, Shari joined Leimomi Maldonado’s hälau, then called House of I, and remembers the dedication and discipline required to prepare for the King Kamehameha Hula Competition. Today, Shari and her daughter Tiana are members of an informal group led by Kanoe Cazimero, who shares with them her knowledge of hula.

"It embraces the spirit of aloha throughout Hawai'i and the world," said author Shari 'Iolani Floyd Berinobis who spent a year putting the book together. Berinobis was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai'i, and grew up around musicians and entertainers who helped her develop a love for hula. She began studying hula at the age of nine under Kumu Hula, Eleanor Hiram Hoke, and later from Kumu's, Kau'i Brant and Leimomi Maldonado. She is married to Tito Berinobis and they have two daughters.

Contact: Shari Berinobis at: 808 853 9456. Email: Hulala143@aol.com