Today we had our Halau Photoshoot for our 4th Annual Lei Day event on May 1, 2011.  Tickets are now for sale!  Please email or call for more information!  Food, vendors, arts and crafts, workshops, Polynesian Revue complete with LIVE Tahitian Drumming and music…  also come and watch our FIRE show!

Candid Pictures From todays Photoshoot…. 

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Here are our kids (keiki) dancers this Thursday doing such a wonderful job with the new choreography for our 4th Annual Lei Day Celebration.  Come and join us!

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Lots of fun this afternoon doing a full show for a cub scout banquet.  They LOVED the audience participation and wanted to pictures with the dancer doing the “warrior” pose. 

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January 28, 2011 Bromwell Elementary School in Denver Colorado hosted their multicultural day event.  Kalama Polynesian Dancers entertained the school with Tahitian Dance, Bellydance, Maori Dance, Bollywood, and Hula Dance.  We featured children and adult entertainers as well as featured Live Drumming with Lani and Kekoa.

One of the highlights was our Ukulele Player/ musician Shan singing Palehua LIVE while Kahunani and Aiwa graced the stage with the Hula from Hawaii.

We concluded the show by having the whole audience stand up and teaching them motions to the popular song- Hawaii 5-0. 

Not only was it a pleasure to entertain the students and their families but thanks to Bromwell we had the pleasure of tasting food from all cultures.  I think the Indian Food was the best. 

300 people were in attendance on Saturday January 15, 2011 in Denver, CO.  Kalama Polynesian Dancers were fortunate to grace the stage of the Corporate event.  With a special guest- Melinaka with the HOT FIRE ENTERTAINMENT our show was a success!

Mahalo to Keahi, Dani Lei, Kahunani, Melinaka, and Aiwa for a job well done!

We specialize in children’s birthday parties!  Hire Rooshana to do the warrior dance with your keiki boys OR Aiwa to teach the girls a HULA!  Dress your children up in grass skirts and have a LUAU!

Our recent children’s event was at American Girl Denver.  Here are some pictures:

Kalama Polynesian Dancers and Dancing Bellybuttons opened up the New Year with a huge promotion for The Tropical Doll 2011 Girl of the Year doll at American Girl.  The doll is a Hawaiian Doll from the island of Kaua’i.  Her name is Kanani.  On January 1st and 2nd Aiwa and Rooshana greeted the children in line outside the store in the snow and cold waiting to go inside the American Girl store in Park Meadows Mall. 

As the store opened they rushed in to see the Kanani.  In one day the doll SOLD OUT!  The next day we were telling the children to come back in the next day or so because the doll was gone!

Lucky for us there were  plenty of arts and crafts for the children to participate in and we were the HIT by doing 2 different Polynesian Shows throughout the day.  The children were dressed in their grass skirts and participated in all of our hula lessons and Tahitian dance lessons.  They were an awesome crowd! 

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~Kauilani, Keahi, and Aiwa lei greeting at the Hyatt Regency ~

Maui Jim Sunglass Co.  call me two days before their VAIL, CO event.  They were promoting sunglasses and wanted only AUTHENTIC Polynesian girls.  By some miracle I happened to put it all together and got Vairea and Kahunani there.  Praying that it wouldn’t snow…  the dancers drove about almost three hours to Vail where they helped promote their sunglasses by passing out promotional items and leis.

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Our keikis did a great job at the 2010 Encore Dance Christmas Show. We showcased the 12 days of Christmas Hawaiian Style. As always our children performers had LOTS OF FUN!