Alberta
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Alberta's four schools split between Edmonton and Calgary, and between them cover an unusually wide range of styles for such a short list: hula kahiko, hula ʻauana, Tahitian ʻori, Māori kapa haka, Samoan siva and mele all appear somewhere on this page.
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Hoʻomaka Hanu A Ke Aloha Polynesian Dance Society (its name means "to begin to breathe aloha") has taught hula kahiko, hula ʻauana and ʻori Tahiti from Edmonton's Blue Quill Community Hall since it became a non-profit society in 2019. In Calgary, NalaniDance describes itself as the city's only Hawaiian performance arts group; its director travels to Hawaiʻi to study hula with master kumu before bringing routines home for weddings, lūʻau and community events across Alberta and Western Canada.
Between Edmonton and Calgary, the schools below span beginner classes to a performing company, across several different Polynesian traditions. If your hālau, studio or dance group isn't on this list yet, submit it and our curation team will follow up.
Edmonton Polynesian dance and drumming group directed by Tracy ʻKelikaʻ Thorne, teaching the dances and mele of Hawaiʻi, Tahiti, Aotearoa and Samoa for over 20 years through recreational classes, an intermediate program and a performing company.
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