This document outlines an introductory course on understanding luau fundamentals. The course will cover the origins and history of the luau, introduce traditional luau cuisine, and include hands-on labs for Hawaiianization, hula dancing, and sampling luau foods. The document provides an agenda that includes discussions of how luaus began as a traditional Hawaiian feast and party usually accompanied by music and hula dancing, and how they became a cultural celebration after religious taboos were abolished in 1819. Hands-on sections will cover writing Hawaiian names, learning basic hula dance moves, and tasting popular luau dishes like kalua pork and haupia.

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2. Understanding Luau Fundamentals

3. Welcome & Administrivia
 Onsite Course:
Understanding Luau
Fundamentals
 Hands-on course
 Duration: 5 minutes
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4. Course Outline
 Luau Origins
 Lab 1: Hawaiianization
 History of the Luau
 Lab 2: Hawaiian dance (for the
dance impaired)
 Introduction to Luau cuisine
 Lab 3: Sampling the Luau feast
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5. Origins
You are here
Luaus are here
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6. Lab #1: Becoming Hawaiian
 Step 1: Open your course kit
 Step 2: Discover your alternate identity
 Step 3: Write your Hawaiian name on your nametag
 Step 4: Assume your new identity
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7. Luau Origins
 A traditional Hawaiian party or feast
usually accompanied by entertainment
such as traditional Hawaiian music and
hula
 In 1819, King Kamehameha II abolished
all religious laws, including those that
required Hawaiian men and woman to
eat their meals separately
 As a symbolic reinforcement of this act,
King K sets up a feast with all the
women, ending the Hawaiian religious
taboos
 This “Luau” becomes a cultural
celebration of this social paradigm shift
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8. What is a Luau?
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9. What is a Luau?
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12. Lab #2: Hula
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13. Essential Hula Dance Steps
 Step 1: 'Ami (Hula hip swivel)
 Right - rotate hips counter-clockwise, one
rotation for each count
 Left - rotate hips clockwise
 Bent knees make the 'Ami easier
 Step 2: Mele (Singing Hand Movement)
 Hand gracefully gesturing at mouth for song
 Step 3: Palama (Swaying Palms Hand
Movement)
 Left arm becomes the land
 Right arm and fingers sway showing a
waving palm
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14. Luau Cuisine
 Kalua Pork
 Macaroni Salad
 Tropical Fruit
 Wakame salad
 Spam
 Haupia (coconut custard)
 Pineapple cake
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15. Lab #3: Sampling Luau Cuisine
 Field trip to Marketing
Conference Room # 504
 Reminder: be sure to complete
your MTM evaluations
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