PHOENIX – Hoop dancing has rarely ever been about competition for Scott Sixkiller Sinquah. Sure, Sinquah is a world champion hoop dancer and one of the best to ever do it. But he doesn’t hoop dance to ...

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.

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 ...

Last February, master of ceremonies Dennis Bowen (a Seneca elder) welcomed the reigning champion into the 2025 World Championship Hoop Dance Contest arena at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.

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 ...

“Hula hooping is a gateway prop,” says Ellen Phillips, co-founder of Grind City Flow Arts. “It’s usually the first prop that you pick up, but then you start learning all these other flow arts. It’s a ...