Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TUPELO – Sixty-seven years ago, a toy company named Wham-O began mass-producing brightly colored plastic hoops. The Hula Hoop, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

MASON, Mich. — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hoop dancing has always been a way of life for Manaya Duncan. “Ever since I could walk, my parents gave me a hoop,” Duncan, now 16, said Saturday while waiting to compete in the fourth annual Youth ...