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PHOTO BY LAWRENCE TABUDLO<\/p><\/div>\n

Kumu hula Patrick Makuak\u0101ne has been transforming lives for decades. Now, the MacArthur Foundation is changing his with its fellowship award.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Many may remember Burning Man 2023 for the relentless showers that turned Nevada\u2019s Black Rock Desert into a mud-soaked mess and left tens of thousands of artsy, counterculture types temporarily stranded.<\/p>\n

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A very bu\ufb00 Patrick Makuak\u0101ne, center, has been able to flex his creative muscles through shows like The Natives Are Restless. LIN CARIFFE PHOTO<\/p><\/div>\n

Among the throng caught smack dab in the middle of those saturated and unpleasant conditions was Patrick Makuak\u0101ne. But his memory of the festival is assuaged by the fact that not even a torrential downpour could rain on his parade \u2014 not when he was about to be showered with one of the greatest honors of his life.<\/p>\n

As the distinguished kumu hula and cultural preservationist recollects, it was amid the deluge that he received an unexpected droplet from heaven \u2014 dew that descended in the form of a voice message from the MacArthur Foundation.<\/p>\n

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Makuak\u0101ne\u2019s dance company N\u0101 Lei Hulu I Ka W\u0113kiu was one of the hottest acts at Burning Man 2019. LIN CARIFFE PHOTO<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019m thinking, ‘What is the MacArthur Foundation calling me for? Do I owe them money?\u2019\u201d recalls Makuak\u0101ne with a chuckle.<\/p>\n

On the contrary, the news was that he had been named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow and, as part of that distinction, he was to be gifted a generous amount of cash \u2014 specifically, $800,000 paid in quarterly installments over the next five years \u2014 to continue expanding upon what he already does so well in the hula cosmos.<\/p>\n

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Makuak\u0101ne performs with H\u0101lau N\u0101 Kamalei in 1983. PHOTO COURTESY PATRICK MAKUAK\u00c5NE<\/p><\/div>\n

Colloquially referred to as \u201cthe genius grant,\u201d the yearly MacArthur award celebrates individuals who demonstrate exceptional creativity in their work through \u201cno-strings-attached fellowships.\u201d While recipients\u2019 past accomplishments are taken into account, the honor ultimately is an investment in those who show \u201coriginality, insight and potential,\u201d according to the foundation\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

Naturally, Makuak\u0101ne was thrilled to receive such a prestigious honor.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you even begin to bring that into your world?\u201d he says. \u201cI know what I\u2019m doing here in San Francisco is my little slice of life. I\u2019ve developed a nice world of teaching hula, it\u2019s been successful, I love it and I\u2019m happy.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you don\u2019t expect anyone from MacArthur Foundation to hear about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The affable kumu finds humor in being grouped with 19 other honorees \u2014 among them a computer scientist and statistician, a cellular and molecular biologist, an environmental engineer and a U.S. poet laureate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI joke about that \u2014 oh, this year\u2019s winners are environmental attorneys, legal scholars \u2026 and a hula dancer!\u201d quips the man who often refers to himself as \u201cthe world\u2019s most imperfect kumu hula.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet even he recognizes the crucial societal role he plays in elevating others through the power of hula.<\/p>\n

\u201cMacArthur Foundation figured out it\u2019s all just the same, too, because hula is as important as all the other activities that the scholars are doing,\u201d acknowledges Makuak\u0101ne. \u201cHula is transformative. I\u2019ve seen firsthand how it changes people\u2019s lives, what it\u2019s done for mine. So, I understand what hula is, what it can be, and what culture and community can do for individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the 62-year-old master teacher, providing people with a secure location to gather and express themselves is what still motivates him after decades of dancing and promoting his craft.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been doing hula for almost 50 years and what I\u2019ve come to understand, especially here in San Francisco, is that, yes, culture is important and so is dance,\u201d he says. \u201cBut the most important thing about what I do is developing and providing community, a safe place for people to be acknowledged, a place where everyone feels welcome but where everyone also puts in the work to ensure that we move forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not easy to develop all these qualities. But when it works, it works really well. As a community, we can do so much. I mean we\u2019re a juggernaut if we\u2019re all putting our minds together to complete a task.\u201d<\/p>\n

The overpowering force Makuak\u0101ne is referring to is his dance company, N\u0101 Lei Hulu I Ka W\u0113kiu, which has been a staple of the San Francisco scene for nearly four decades. Yet the master teacher admits its birth was one of circumstance rather than intention. Back in 1985, he and his partner relocated to the city by the bay to open \u201ca real fancy French restaurant,\u201d yet Makuak\u0101ne believed their stay there would be temporary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were going to save money and then move back to Hawai\u2018i because I wasn\u2019t going to leave hula, although I could do it for a year,\u201d he explains. \u201cBut after a couple months, I was like, \u2018I kind of like it over here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

To better cope with being away from the islands, Makuak\u0101ne decided to offer hula lessons. Almost immediately, people began signing up for his classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a way for those people who had left Hawai\u2018i to stay in touch with Hawai\u2018i. All these people who never thought of taking hula when they were at home, they weren\u2019t even interested in it, but now this was a vehicle for them to remain in touch with their culture,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

In many ways, the very liberated and progressive Bay Area was the perfect haven for Makuak\u0101ne to plant roots and explore his creative side.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d say that San Francisco unshackled me whereas Hawai\u2018i always kept me bound to our traditions,\u201d he asserts. \u201cIt was like you could do almost anything in this city and people would support you.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the beginning of me flexing my creative muscles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then, Makuak\u0101ne \u2014 who sees himself as both a cultural preservationist grounded in long-established customs and a maverick unafraid of exploring new territory \u2014 has shined through an evolving style he refers to as \u201chula mua,\u201d which blends traditional hula with contemporary art forms. By combining his own unique take on the dance with theatrical staging and innovative choreography, he\u2019s been able to create a smorgasbord of shows at venues from San Francisco to Hawai\u2018i, New Orleans to New York, tackling hot-button topics such as colonialism and sovereignty with The Natives Are Restless<\/em> (1996), and gender fluidity in Hawaiian culture with M\u0101h\u016b<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n

Along the way, he\u2019s found time to work as a spiritual and cultural adviser for the incarcerated, giving inmates at San Quentin State Prison something to believe in as an evangelist of sorts for hula. He\u2019s also accumulated his share of honors, including the Hewlett & Gerbode foundations\u2019 Choreographer Commissioning Award for Ka Leo Kanaka<\/em> (2012), the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation\u2019s Artist Fellowship (2014), and a slew of Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, or Izzies, highlighted by Best Company Award (2010) for the Roberta Flack classic The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In fact, Flack was so impressed with the dance company\u2019s rendition of her song that back in January, she requested a live performance at her home in Utah. Makuak\u0101ne agreed, if only to pay tribute to the legendary artist who\u2019s currently battling Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s in dire straits \u2026 the only way she\u2019s keeping her spirits and hopes alive while she\u2019s in this debilitating state because she cannot eat, she cannot talk \u2026 is through art. It keeps her alive now,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The 30-minute set, which consisted of Makuak\u0101ne and six of his dancers, turned out to be a memorable one for the venerable kumu hula.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoberta was so gracious \u2026 it was a moment,\u201d he notes. \u201cWhat a huge honor that was.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Makuak\u0101ne was 10, he got his first taste of hula during an Explorations class at Kamehameha Schools, and immediately rejected it.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t because he found the dance form displeasing; rather, hula made him uncomfortable about his own identity. As a result, he laid his internal conflict at the feet of his kumu, an openly gay man.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was looking at him and thinking, \u2018That\u2019s how I goin\u2019 become \u2014 a sassy, big muffy, too?\u201d recalls Makuak\u0101ne, who was raised in Kaimuk\u012b and attended nearby St. Patrick and Saint Louis schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking back, it was my own internal homophobia, and because I hadn\u2019t come out yet, I was thinking, \u2018The whole world will know I\u2019m m\u0101h\u016b!\u2019\u201d he continues. \u201cBut I laugh about this now because I came to love this person for his muffiness, for his flamboyance \u2014 I celebrate that. But back then, it was all about me being scared of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Makuak\u0101ne\u2019s rejection of hula eventually ended at Saint Louis after kumu hula John Keola Lake didn\u2019t take kindly to the youngster\u2019s demand of \u201conly singing Hawaiian songs and not dancing the hula.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe looked at me and said, \u2018In this club, you dance hula and you sing, and if you don\u2019t like it, there\u2019s the door!\u2019\u201d recounts Makuak\u0101ne, who sheepishly agreed to the rule.<\/p>\n

Two weeks later, he was fully converted to the dance form.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just grabbed me in a way that I knew I was going to be doing it for the rest of my life,\u201d confesses Makuak\u0101ne, who later studied hula under Robert Uluwehi Cazimero and Mae Kam\u0101malu Klein.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I also knew that I was going to eventually be teaching it, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on all the accolades he\u2019s received and the thousands of lives impacted over his career, it\u2019s safe to say that many are grateful for Makuak\u0101ne\u2019s willingness to be \u201chooked\u201d by hula and ultimately share his love of the Hawaiian culture with others.<\/p>\n

As for what lies ahead, he acknowledges that he\u2019ll soon have to decide how to use the \u201cexorbitant amount of money\u201d from MacArthur Foundation.<\/p>\n

One idea he\u2019s kicking around is collaborating with several Native Hawaiian artists whose work he admires, and coming up with projects \u201cthat\u2019s inspired by what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n

A second goal is a bit more self-serving but necessary to transform his home life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s important to me is finally having a bathroom that a gay man in his 60s deserves, gunfunnit!\u201d he says with a bit of sass. \u201cIt\u2019s like a friggin\u2019 closet. Can I at least have one that\u2019s as big as two closets?!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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