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Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Awards
MTAAP
application form (PDF)
MTAAp application
form (word)
^MTAAP Awardees List^
Angela Dewey (l) and
Amy Stillman (r)
Photo by LuAnne Kozma
Amy Ku'Uleialoha Stillman
2009 master artist
Ann Arbor (Washtenaw County)
hula
Amy Stillman learned hula dancing as a child in her native Hawai’i.
Now a professor at University of Michigan, she is known for her research
and publications on the history of Hawaiian music and dance, specifically
on hula. While at University of Hawai’i she studied how to chant (oli)
and dance ancient hula (hula kahiko) from master dancers. Amy turned again
to performance and teaching when she came to Ann Arbor and discovered there
was great interest among dancers and few opportunities to teach advanced
students. In 2007 she founded the Great Lakes Hula Academy. Apprentice Angela
Dewey, a first-generation Polynesian-American, began dancing hula at age
five, and performed hula while growing up in Utah. She has taught beginning
hula classes in Ann Arbor. Angela is learning Hole Waimea and other hula
chanting and dances from Amy and hopes to pass on the tradition to her daughter
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