The Kaiāulu Hale, also known as the Hale Kaiāulu, Kaiāulu School, the Hālau Hula, or simply the Hula School, is a building in the Lilo & Stitch franchise.
Background[]
The Kaiāulu Hale is a community center most often used used as a hālau hula ("hālau" being Hawaiian for "school") where Lilo, Mertle, Elena, Teresa, Yuki, and Victoria (the last of whom joined later) go to learn the traditional hula dance and many other Hawaiian-based topics, with Stitch often coming along and accompanying Lilo for support. Their kumu hula (hula teacher) and instructor is Moses Puloki. The building primarily consists of an assembly hall and a stage, though it also has back rooms including a kitchen. The building is also used for a number of local events in Kokaua Town, including parties (such as the Halloween party in "Spooky", in which kids outside of Moses' hula class also show up), dances (such as the Valentine's Day dance in "Hunkahunka"), and other functions.
This building can be seen throughout all the Lilo & Stitch films, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, and in a skydome in Disney Infinity. It is likely owned by the local government of Kokaua Town, with Moses being either its operator or simply its most prominent worker. This is likely because in The Series episode "Yaarp", Moses says he could only approve one improvement project for the building, choosing Mertle's mural as the project. He tells a disappointed Lilo to write a letter to the mayor if she wants her alien invasion alarm approved, which happens at the end of the episode when she ends up meeting the mayor face to face.
Trivia[]
- In "Wishy-Washy", Lilo, Mertle, the hula girls, and Victoria graduated to intermediate hula, as did Nani when she was younger as seen in her graduation picture with her parents.
- The building's name, which literally means "community house", was revealed in the episode "Yaarp" by Moses.
- However, in the episode "Phoon", when Lilo, under the guise of "Amber Pineapple Kalanui", tells the rich girls at the Hip Hop Fusion Studio that Stitch (or "Wenceslaus") was saying to her that there was trouble at the building, she calls it the "Kaiāulu School".
- In "Slick", the titular experiment of the episode calls it the "Hale Kaiāulu", reversing the word order.
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