As a child, ShanDien Sonwai LaRance never thought her love for hoop dancing would take her around the world. But her dad knew. "Keep hoop dancing," her dad often said. "It's going to open doors for ...

In a pastoral campground south of Lansing, many attendees at the Michigan Hoop Dance Retreat were hooping as if their hair was on fire. Then, Missy Cooke’s hair caught fire. Dancing with a torch in ...

PHOENIX — American Indian and Canadian First Nations hoop dancers will compete in the Heard Museum World Championship Hoop Dance Contest this week. The event will take place Saturday and Sunday.

Kristina Sutcliffe of O Dance; Image courtesy of Kristina Sutcliffe The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Like many who first try hoop dance, I was ...

Before spring break, students at Heights Middle School participated in a Hoop Dance workshop, taught by Diné-Hopi dance instructor Talavi Cook. Farmington Municipal Schools Public Information Officer ...

DANCE AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION. >> HOOP DANCING. A TRADITIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN AND NEW MEXICAN DANCE FORM. >>E W TRY HOOP DANCING THROUGH THE NATIVE AMERICAN HOOP DANCE TO CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT THE ...

The Hoop Dance World Championship has been called the Indigenous version of ice dancing, and while competition can be cutthroat on the arena, the contestants are more like a continent-wide extended ...

Nicole Tucker, a senior at SUNY Cortland, is president of a club that lets students flash back to the 1990s, a nostalgic time when the Backstreet Boys and hula hooping were among the latest trends.

In this Aug. 10, 2018, photo provided by Anderson Gould Jr. hoop dancer Nakotah LaRance performs at the "Hip Hop/Electronic: Indigenous Music & Dance of the Grand Performances" in Los Angeles. LaRance ...

As I step into the hoop and raise it to waist-level, it occurs to me that perhaps a popular outdoor bar isn’t the best place to have my first hooping lesson. It’s been about 20 years since I tried — ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. A competition this weekend honored the man whose passion sparked a chain of events that has brought the ...

Stomach out. Then suck it back in. That’s the way to keep a hula hoop spinning around your middle, explains Rachel Attardi to her class of eager hoopers. But the students in Ms. Attardi’s class at the ...