Hoop Dancing

Hoop Dancer and Healer Jones Benally Has Seen it All

Lee Allen

4/15/15

Age is only a concept to Dine hoop dancer Jones Benally, born in an octagonal home on the Navajo reservation in the dirt floor/no water/no electricity days before birth certificate...

Nakotah LaRance: The World's Best Hoop Dancer Stays Humble

Lee Allen

3/11/15

In a classic case of the student besting the mentor, 25-year-old Nakotah LaRance (Hopi/Tewa/Assiniboine) hoop dancer from OhKay Owingeh Pueblo, New Mexico, took top honors in the H...

Video: Dallas Chief Eagle Teaches Young Students How to Hoop Dance

Christina Rose

6/25/14

Dallas Chief Eagle, Sicangu Lakota, has hoop danced internationally and won first place in the Reno Red Cloud Memorial Hoop Dance Contest, Oglala Fair in 1997, and in the Senior Di...

Watch Tony Duncan's Performance at the Heard Hoop Dance Championship

ICTMN Staff

2/24/14

At the Heard Museum's annual World Championship Hoop Dance Contest, held February 8-9 in Phoenix, Derrick Suwaima Davis was judged the top hoop dancer in the world for the second c...

Cirque du Soleil's 'Totem' Debuts in NYC at Citi Field

ICTMN Staff

4/16/13

On the 25th anniversary of the first visit of Cirque du Soleil in New York City, the troupe is back in the Big Apple with their acclaimed production Totem ...