How are hālau judged at the Merrie Monarch Festival?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- When the dancers go on the stage, how exactly are each hālau being judged? So, to find out more about this, KHON2 talked with a kumu, or teacher, who has been a judge multiple times, Kumu Hula Frank Kawaikapuokalani Hewett.
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Unfairly! That's how. Absolutely stunned that AHA did not win. It reminds me of the movie Strictly Ballroom where the most talented, innovative dancer could never win because the judges had an agenda
Kumu explained to us that he was told by George Naope to keep doing what he is doing. There were many styles of Kahiko before contact and Kumu Mark has gone to the Bishop Museum and worked with the cylinder recordings of chants.
Well, judges have personal beliefs about how hula should be and often prefer their own views over Merrie Monarch rules, even though the festival rules are provided to all kumu hula in advance. So kumu hula are often frustrated that they train their dancers to fit within the festival rules, but judges dismiss the rules in order to commit to their own personal biases. It’s a frustration that organizers have to deal with, but ultimately, the responsibility rests with the organizers to get judges to seriously commit to the festival rules and not their own personal ones. It is unfair and unethical for judges to do that.
So they keep moving the goal post...that's what it sounds like
@@roxannetaitano1490 Yep. Total hit and miss from year to year.
It reminds me of the Academy Awards. Why didn't Killers of the Osage Moon win any awards this year? Why not Scorcase? I always feel that the Merrie Monarch standards are totally different from what AHA is presenting. Kumu doesn't care if he wins or not, though I'm sure he would like to place. But they consider him an entertainer and not a world class hula composer. And of course he wears sunglasses and he strikes his ipu heke on the top instead of on the sides. Yes, he is an entertainer, but like many other Kumus he is also a scholar and is very conscious of Hawaiian history and presents so many tributes to it. There is a lot of politics involved. I wasn't disappointed at those who were chosen to win and place. It isn't an easy job to judge. I remember when Kauikapuokalani Hewett was considered "a bad boy of hula" in the 1980's.
So choreography is out….. makes sense why the same halau win every year and AHA doesn’t.
Puzzling over his comment. You would think that is something that would be judged! Maybe too hard to do with just one viewing.
These judges are like corrupt politicians, every year a new group of judges should be selected cause like politicians the longer they serve the more corrupt and biased they become🤙🏽
Example: They Blacklist AHA every year (if he’s not banned) but it doesn’t stop his Halau from blowing the competition out the door! The audience, standing ovation and applaud shows it, you can’t put a veil on the people’s eyes!
@@tawaitaiI guess at least it's a huge honor that AHA is invited to participate. His work is very creative. Sidenote: I think I read a long time ago Hewitt's halau never danced at MM. Don't know if that's still true.
Who like to see scoring for AHA? Maybe they should make scoring sheets public after the competition.
They go over the scoring with the Kumu & the Alaka'i after MM and sometimes that can be helpful for them. They go over it with the Haumana later.
I thought they judged by the amount of numbers appearing on the check slid under the table🤷🏽♂️
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Easy. By how much they payed OHA to play.
So its subjective in all items.😂 smh