At the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Indigenous people from across North America tell their personal stories with intricate ...

In 1991, my father and I decided to host a unique event to preserve a Native artform that began in the Southwest and transform it into a World Championship Contest. Little did we know our ...

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 ...

Brittany Colbert was a stay-at-home mom with a dream. Then she learned how to hula-hoop. Now she's the stilt-walking, hula-hooping, fire-dancing owner of Flowstate Entertainment. Axiom Carlson, owner ...

Nicole Raye's interest in hoop dancing has taken her around the country. She's been around Missouri, to Kentucky a couple times, a few other states and also to Mexico. "I traveled alone in my car for ...

Mason, Michigan — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...