With a background of breathtaking Hawaiian scenery, ukulele music, and a beautiful hula instructor, your child can learn to do the hula! This instructional dance video teaches in easy step-by-step lessons, with a skilled hula instructor who smiles and encourages directly into the camera to your child!Each step is taught with music, which conditions your child to feel rhythm. All lessons have been child tested (with children who have never danced a step to those who have six months of training). All children did very well with these lessons, which progress from simple movements to those of increased difficulty and speed. To simplify the dance, mirror-imaging is used. The instructor moves in mirror fashion, saying "Right" though she is moving left. This enables your child to learn easily, without double thinking.
About the Hula Instructor
Taina Passmore is a beautiful, dark-haired island dance instructor who has had years of experience as a dancer, choreographer, singer, emcee, actress, and producer of the "Memories of Paradise" show in Hawaii. The mother of four and very young looking nana (grandmother) of four, Taina teaches children the lovely hula dance with encouraging smiles and a true aloha spirit.
About the Songs
Level 1: Kaholo-Hula
This is a song by Les Fernandez, especially written to teach the first two basic hula steps. The words are really easy to sing and dance to, plus this is FUN!
Level 2: Pearly Shells
This is one of the first island songs that young children in Hawaii learn. It is a song known around the world, and your child can learn to dance to it!
Level 3: Hukilau
Your child can learn one of the first basic songs that island hula dancers learn. The song offers a wonderful variety of hand motions to enrich the dance, such as fishing and pulling in a fish net. - DVD - 25 Minutes
