Hula Concert at Wakiki Shell - 10/11/2009

Pi’o Anuenue, the Rainbow Connection, made up of several Hula halaus including some from Tokyo held a free hula and Tahitian dance concert featuring over 100 dancers last Sunday. It started around 4pm and didn't end till after 8pm! It actually featured a graduation of 5 of the members of the troupe.
As part of the graduation, the students had to perform different types of hula chants and dances.
They also had to perform using different hula instruments.
One of the kumu hula was from Tokyo and spoke in Japanese.
The graduation was very emotional for the students.
The dancers from Japan also performed. There were a LOT of them from Japan.
After the sun set, the stage was lit up and the Tahitian dance performances began. It was dark even w/ the stage lights and my camera had a hard time keeping the focus so the image are a little soft and grainy from the high ISO.
There were even young performers who were really cute and talented.
There were so many on the stage, it took three shots to create this panoramic. I was actually surprised that PSE was able to merge them since people were actually moving in these shots. I had to manually link the photos but PSE was able to blend the image and you can hardly tell the overlaps. I am so amazed what PSE was able to do.