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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Jul. 29—When Steve LaRance moved to New Mexico 10 years ago, he found no native hoop dancers in the state. LaRance, who lives at Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, co-founded the Lightning Boy Foundation, ...

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.

As Native youth performed traditional hoop dance in a competition in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the movement of the hoops created meaningful designs born of nature. Hoop dancers weave their hoops into many ...

Apr. 10—Shadé-Phea Young's path to becoming a hoop dance world champion wasn't supposed to include a missed flight and a long drive to Phoenix. But those were the cards dealt to the Santa Fe Indian ...

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 ...