TUPELO – Sixty-seven years ago, a toy company named Wham-O began mass-producing brightly colored plastic hoops. The Hula Hoop, as it was named, became a fad. Seven years later, in 1965, Wham-O added ...

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 ...

Chelsie Welker uses an LED hoop and fire hoops to dance, Tuesday, May 26, 2015, in a Cape Girardeau County creek. Chelsie Welker uses an LED hoop and fire hoops to dance, Tuesday, May 26, 2015, in a ...

Nicole Raye's interest in hoop dancing has taken her around the country. She's been around Missouri, to Kentucky a couple times, a few other states and also to Mexico. "I traveled alone in my car for ...

Brittany Colbert was a stay-at-home mom with a dream. Then she learned how to hula-hoop. Now she's the stilt-walking, hula-hooping, fire-dancing owner of Flowstate Entertainment. Axiom Carlson, owner ...

Mason, Michigan — 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 ...

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 ...

When Dallas Arcand steps into the hoops, he’s not just dancing, but weaving history, storytelling and tradition into every move. This year, at the World Championship Hoop Dance Contest in Arizona, ...