In stage performances and in the studio, the couple behind Jefferson Park’s Hōkūle’a Academy of Polynesian Arts tells their love story through dance LatinoVoicesWTTW
In stage performances and in the studio, the couple behind Jefferson Park’s“I love seeing him do what he loves to do. So I really enjoy when he dances and we dance together,” said Mexico native Ale Gabino of her husband, Chicago native David Acevedo.Gabino and Acevedo are both lifelong dancers. After meeting at a 2003 Polynesian dance competition in Hilo, Hawaii, they married in 2009.
“In Mexico I feel like [at] a family gathering, everybody eats, everybody dances and plays games, stuff like that. So that’s something that I saw in the Polynesian culture, that they are very family oriented, it’s all about the family,” Gabino said. “Polynesian dancing goes very deep into connecting to everything in nature, their ancestors, the land that they live in.”
“Our main focus out of all of the Polynesian cultures are Hawaii and Tahiti. When you go to a luau in Hawaii, they represent all of the cultures, all of the other Polynesian islands, so people just get that idea that’s all Hawaiian dancing. So then when they start learning the dance in class, they’re like, oh there are two different things, you know, completely different styles.
Acevedo and Gabino say their students, who come from all over the Chicago area, often have a personal connection to Polynesian culture that leads them to seek out“I just received a call yesterday from a dancer who was born and raised in Hawaii, he’s lived here in Chicago for five years and he misses home,” Acevedo said. “So for him it’s more about the camaraderie, the fellowship, that ohana, that family sense.
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