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 ...

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.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The rich cultural tradition of Native hoop dancing was on display at World of Winter. Malcolm McDonald, a proud member of the Potawatomi tribe, blended storytelling, dance and ...

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 ...

Several dancers with the Lightning Boy Foundation earned top honors at the 2025 Heard Museum World Hoop Dance Championship. Josiah Enriquez, 22, successfully defended his title and is now the ...

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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 ...