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the story: it is a multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art venue built for this presentation. It employs the talents of some of Hawaii's most distinguished musicians and performers, combining live traditional Hawaiian music with 8-channel surround sound. performance. Traditional Butoh theatre is blended with acrobatic feats of strength and beauty. Hula is combined with modern dance. Rich costumes, lighting and stage design are woven together into a fi ligree of fantastic images drawn from Hawaiian legend and history, pulling the viewer out of time and into a place of fi lled landscape of the imagination of the ancient Hawaiian story tellers. of other places and other times, both mythic and real. It blows between daylight and night, between times and worlds. It is hopeful and cleansing. The ancient Hawaiian name for this wind is `Ulalena. is a journey, an individual voyage which does not necessarily involve change of place. One is changed by events and the passage of time. (Eugenio Barba, The Paper Canoe, A Guide to Theatre Anthropology.) The use of metaphors integrates Hawaiian chants and dances, original music and choreography, lighting and projections to support the talents of unique performers." discovery is the destination." Touch with the Aloha Spirit." Ulalena will be the buzz of the millennium..." Bergere" is to Paris or the "Phantom of the Opera" is to New York a must see." and by the choreography that went into the making of this show." "An authentic must-see." Experience in all the Islands." |