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For the Love of Dance Summer Benefit Challenge Celebration with Kumu Mālia! In-person & Live Online
September 14, 2025, @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm HST
Sunday, September 14, 2025
4:30 – 6:00 pm
Free
Do you LOVE to dance?!? We do!
A couple years ago, many of us Still & Moving dancers got together to dance in the parking lot for what became our Still & Moving Center landing page video (see snippets from 1:46 onwards.) https://youtu.be/o2NRoaBmAAI . We had SO MUCH fun we asked ourselves: “Why not do this more often?!?” And now we are!
We invite you: Dance with love. Dance with your own style. Dance with us!
Join our Still & Moving dance teachers and students for a participatory event, including:
Qigong with Deeshen Shah & Jade Chan
Hula with Kumu Mālia Helelā & Doris Morisaki
Align with Regina Lumsden
Ballet with Elizabeth Lentz-Hill
Turkish Belly Dance with Murat Demirtas
Argentine tango with Josefina Stellato
Floor Barre with Cathy Izumi
Danceability with Genevieve Dunn
Ballroom Basics with the Morisaki’s
Line Dancing with Eva McKinsey & Thuan Nguyen
Teachers will each give us a short demo and/or lead us in a warm-up, dance to a song, or teach a special sequence or piece of choreography. And if we have time left over we’ll all jam to great music!
Let’s also celebrate the winners of our ‘Light Your Path to Health’ Summer Benefit Challenge!
Sound fun? Invite your friends and sign up!
Kumu Hula Mālia Helelā
Kumu Mālia Ko’i’ulaokawaolehua Helelā strives to live a life of grace. Her hālau (hula school), which meets at Still & Moving Center, is Nā Hula Ola Aloha. Completing her ‘ūniki (graduation) under Kumu Hula Pulu’elo Park in 2002, she now teaches hula and oli (traditional Hawaiian chanting) to a wide range of students, from infants and toddlers to kupuna. Mālia studied oli under Kumu Hula Keola Lake. She began her formal training in lomilomi massage as a teenager. She was licensed by the State of Hawaii as a massage therapist in 1998 and as an esthetician in 2002. Her hula practice and lomilomi practice, she says, are the same. She continues to look to the beauty and grace of the Hawaiian environment for grounding and inspiration. Mālia has become a respected and beloved cultural practitioner in Hawaii.
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