Artist, actor and musician Moontee Sinquah said he loved to dance but he didn’t begin hoop dancing until he was 40. Now, 15 years later, he is the senior world champion and uses dance to deliver a ...
We're profiling extraordinary kids doing extraordinary things. Kicknosway, who is Potawatami and Cree, has travelled across Canada and beyond doing traditional hoop dancing. He starting learning the ...
The 2018 Hoop Dance World Champion will be crowned on February 11, and Tony Duncan has his eye on the top prize. Duncan hopes to bring home his sixth championship win. But, winning isn’t everything ...
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 ...
A circle, or hoop, has infinite sides and infinite angles. "Google it," Lumhe Sampson encouraged the crowd at a music festival in St. Paul's Mears Park. From the stage, Sampson held up a white plastic ...
There's no better place to see hoop dancers at the top of their game than at the World Championship Hoop Dance Contest in Phoenix, Arizona. Sitting in a circle around a big drum, a group of men struck ...
The hoop dance, is believed to have started as a healing ceremony among Taos Pueblo medicine men, is now a vibrant expression of artistry and athleticism On the weekend of Saturday, Aug. 2, and Sunday ...
The National Football League isn’t alone in crowning a world champion in Phoenix this month. The 33 rd annual World Championship Hoop Dance Contest takes place at the Heard Museum downtown Saturday ...