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 ...

In 1991, my father and I decided to host a unique event to preserve a Native artform that began in the Southwest and ...

In a demonstration of healing, Josiah Enriquez’s moccasins etched rapid, intricate patterns in the sand as he danced at the end of a dirt road, a portable speaker offering up powwow ...

Una Fonte ’26 dances across the Ainsworth classroom with a spinning yellow hula hoop. She rolls the hoop across both hands and behind her back, raises it over her head like a giant serving plate, and ...

Hoop dancing has always been a way of life for Manaya Duncan. “Ever since I could walk, my parents gave me a hoop,” Duncan, now 16, said Saturday while waiting to compete in the fourth annual Youth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...