World Arts West collaborating with Patrick Makuakane to create and present a dance piece inspired by ancient Hawaiian astronomy, “Maui, Turning Back the Sky,” premiering at the 30th anniversary of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Makuakane is exploring Hawaiian astronomy and the story of Maui, the great ancestral navigator/astronomer who guided all Polynesian ancestors to the Polynesian islands around 3000 B.C.
