DARAT at East-West Center honors 120 years of sakadas in Hawaii with dance, music, fashion

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A special production is celebrating the 120th anniversary of the arrival of the first sakadas, Filipino plantation laborers, in Hawaii.

The House of Gongs presents “DARAT: A Dance Runway in Five Movements,” created for Filipino American History Month at the East-West Center.

DARAT, Ilocano for flowing sand or land, transforms the fashion runway into an immersive, ceremonial space bridging ancestral memory with contemporary movement…

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