Hoop dancing is more than just an activity. It is a way of life. Micco Sampson, a professional hoop dancer, smiled at his 4-year-old son at the University of St. Thomas Anderson Student Center while ...

A circle, or hoop, has infinite sides and infinite angles. “Google it,” Lumhe Sampson encouraged the crowd at a music festival in St. Paul’s Mears Park. From the stage, Sampson held up a white plastic ...

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 ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context 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 ...

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 ...

As a child, ShanDien Sonwai LaRance never thought her love for hoop dancing would take her around the world. But her dad knew. "Keep hoop dancing," her dad often said. "It's going to open doors for ...