Working with five hoops was the hardest. ShanDien LaRance modeled every move, flipping hoops forward until they were a flat, interwoven pattern in her hands before she pulled them into a ball ...

Nov. 18—A father-daughter pair from New Mexico's Lightning Boy Foundation performed a hoop dance and drum song this week for first lady Jill Biden and about 400 Native people from all over the country ...

DANCE AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION. >> HOOP DANCING. A TRADITIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN AND NEW MEXICAN DANCE FORM. >>E W TRY HOOP DANCING THROUGH THE NATIVE AMERICAN HOOP DANCE TO CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT THE ...

FORT YATES, N.D. — Kevin Locke played an important role in keeping alive the lost art of the Native American hoop dance. He also was an accomplished flute player, storyteller and educator who was ...

This July, the National Museum of the American Indian’s George Gustav Heye Center hosts Ty Defoe (Oneida/Ojibwe), a multidisciplinary performance artist who will be sharing his traditional hoop ...

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 ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Joy and tragedy merge in the story of the Lightning Boy Foundation. The foundation strives to preserve a piece ...

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 ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. A father-daughter pair from New Mexico’s Lightning Boy Foundation performed a hoop dance and drum song this week ...

The Hoop Dance World Championship has been called the Indigenous version of ice dancing, and while competition can be cutthroat on the arena, the contestants are more like a continent-wide extended ...

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