Biography
She was born Joann Marie Wheeler on May 20, 1930 in Kansas City, Missouri, to George V. and Leona Lavena (Moore) Wheeler. Wheeler attended grammar school in Des Plaines, Illinois and Whitefish Bay High School in the village of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. She later studied at Northwestern University, receiving a BSS degree in 1955, an MA in 1965, and a PhD from Indiana University in 1976, with her dissertation being "Theory and methods for an anthropological study of dance." In 1953, she married Thomas Samuel Kealiinohomoku. They had one child, Halla, and divorced in 1963. She was the dance reviewer for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from 1960-1963. In 1970, she published one of her best known works, "An anthropologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance".
Kealiinohomoku served on the Board of Directors of Native Americans for Community Action in Flagstaff, Arizona from 1977-1982. She is a member of the Society of Ethnomusicology, where she was co-founder of their Southwestern Chapter. She was also on the Board of Directors from 1974-1977 of the Congress on Research in Dance, and in 1981 was co-founder of Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, a dance research organization in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she has been a permanent member of the board of directors. In 2008, it was announced that the CCDR collection is to be transferred to the Herberger College of the Arts at Arizona State University Dance Department in Tempe, Arizona for permanent curation.
In 1992, Kealiinohomoku was the series advisor for Dancing, an eight-part public television series on Thirteen/WNET, which first aired in 1993.
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