Hoop dancing is a form of storytelling through dance. An Indigenous hoop dancer uses hoops to create shapes as they move to music. The hoops represent animals, symbols and designs and are sometimes ...

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Traditional First Nations hoop dancing was on the decline 40 years ago. By the mid-1970s, there were just half-a-dozen hoop dancers in North America, according to SAY Magazine, a Winnipeg First ...

Native American hoop dancing dates back so far that even the tribes themselves are unsure of when it exactly started. What is known is it's more than a performance, it's even more than spiritual. For ...

When Dallas Arcand steps into the hoops, he’s not just dancing, but weaving history, storytelling and tradition into every move. This year, at the World Championship Hoop Dance Contest in Arizona, ...

The World Championship Hoop Dance Contest is held every February in Phoenix. Arizona (Credit: Karen Gardiner) There's no better place to see hoop dancers at the top of their game than at the World ...

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 ...