Keo Woolford
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Tribeca All Access® 2005
About
Keo Woolford is a multi-disciplinary artist, born and raised in Hawai`i, who began dancing hula in high school. In 1999, he became a member of Robert Cazimero’s Halau Na Kamalei. Since then he has been performing hula with The Brothers Cazimero around the US and Japan. His career in theatre began in 1995 with his critically acclaimed and self-penned one-man show, He Hawai`i Au. In 2002, Keo completed his run starring as the King in Rogers And Hammerstein’s The King And I at the London Palladium in London’s West End. He currently resides in New York where he continues his artistic pursuits and teaches hula for the Hawai’i Cultural Foundation.
Na Hula Kane: The Men of Hula
Providing a rare glimpse into the only male hula school in Hawaii, Na Hula Kane chronicles the teachings of the legendary hula teacher Robert Cazimero, a major fi gure in the Hawaiian renaissance movement.