ABOUT ALOHA HULA STUDIO
WORLD DANCE ARTS STUDIO & PERFORMANCE GROUP
Aloha Hula Studio is a world dance arts studio and dance troupe specializing in Hawaiian Hula and Philippine Dance Arts. Our studio offers classes for children, teens, and adults, providing a welcoming environment for all to learn and be in supportive community.
MISSION & VISION
MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is to express the vibrancy of Oceania and Austronesian cultural arts and relationships in the Inland Empire, California through dance, education, and production.
VISION STATEMENT
We envision a creative, dynamic, generative space and community where inter-cultural conversations, ideas, and concepts thrive.
ABOUT TONI TEMEHANA PASION
Aloha Hula Studio in the Inland Empire, California was established in 2012. Since January 2024, AHS has changed ownership and instructorship.
AHS is under the direction of Toni Temehana Pasion. Toni is a practitioner and cultural artist of Hawaiian and Philippine Dance forms, culture-based educator, community advocate, and director. She currently teaches Oceania Dance and Dance Studies courses at the University of California, Riverside.
Toni is a force in dance, culture, application, enrichment, and transformation. Her background as a professional dancer and researcher continue to inform her senses of healthy discipline and integrity in her teaching and learning styles.
Toni is a graduate of Santa Monica College, University of California- Riverside, and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is a former alakaʻi, having a unique and dedicated path between California, Hawaiʻi, and Aotearoa over the span of 25+ years. She is also a longtime dancer with Kayamanan Ng Lahi. As an artist, Toni creates works where dance is ritual, stories are told, and Ocean consciousness permeates.
Toniʻs teaching objectives are for students to learn culture, dance, and the arts in a full, applicable, and knowledgeable way that brings about dedicated, thriving, and creative people to enrich our shared communities and societies.
PASION DANCE COMPANY
ABOUT OUR DANCE COMPANY
PDC was established in 2024, and is an audition-based dance troupe focusing on Oceania and Austronesian inter-cultural worldviews in relationship with and the natural ecology of where we stand. We have auditions twice a year.
