Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. POJOAQUE PUEBLO — In a demonstration of healing, Josiah Enriquez’s moccasins etched rapid, intricate patterns in the sand as he ...

The 2018 Hoop Dance World Champion will be crowned on February 11, and Tony Duncan has his eye on the top prize. Duncan hopes to bring home his sixth championship win. But, winning isn’t everything ...

Champion hoop dancer Nakotah LaRance, who traveled the world performing with Cirque du Soleil then returned to New Mexico to coach youth dancers, has died at age 30. LaRance, who was Tewa, Hopi, ...

Michael Goedel, a 22-year-old hoop dancer, joined Living Legends where he is following the footsteps of his parents and siblings at BYU. (Jazz Yutung Cheng) Years of practice, family inspiration and ...

Hoop dancing is one of the many traditions indigenous people are still carrying on today. Originally a healing dance, the art form is now performed at powwows and other cultural events as a form of ...

In a gymnasium packed with middle-schoolers, a deep voice broke out: “When I weep, he cries and comforts, and when I triumph, he puffs with pride. He sings, yet I cannot hear, and he dances, yet I ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before spring break, students at Heights Middle School participated in a Hoop Dance workshop, taught by Diné-Hopi dance instructor Talavi Cook. Farmington Municipal Schools Public Information Officer ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Aug. 10, 2018, photo provided by Anderson Gould Jr. hoop dancer Nakotah LaRance performs at the "Hip Hop/Electronic: ...