PCC dancer featured in Seventeen magazine
PCC dancer Tiffany Ieremia was just 17 years old in 2003 when she was on a promo in New York and selected to appear on the cover of Seventeen Magazine
Tupu Tiave: ‘An emotional experience’
Tupu Tiave was the first of seven siblings to work at the Polynesian Cultural Center, starting in 1972.
Tui Hunt Ikihega: A PCC “baby”
Tua Hunt’s mother and father were both working at the Center when she was born . . . and she soon joined them, later returning as a student employee.
Aunty Kela: So much history since we first started
Aunty Kela Miller was born in Laie, learned hula from her ‘ohana, danced at the Hukilau, then became an original Hawaiian Villager and dancer at the PCC.
Brent Malolo: Canoe dancer, night show performer
Malolo grew up in a small village on the Samoan island of Savai’i, and went to school in the capital and near Wellington, New Zealand, before attending BYU–Hawaii and working at the Polynesian Cultural Center.
Beth McKinnon Hunt: ‘Kiwi & Kangaroo’ days
Before marrying George Hunt of Samoa, Beth McKinnon Hunt left Australia to attend Church College of Hawaii in 1963, and ended up dancing in the Polynesian Cultural Center night show.
TALK STORY: Kavika Tiave, Senior Theater Manager
People joke and ask, “Are you still here?” And I answer, I have the best job because I see the night show kids come in and train, and end up graduating and leaving here better prepared.
