Dallas Arcand: Hoop Dance 101
Angelika Gawronski of Shaw TV in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, recently did a profile on Dallas Arcand, the three-time World Champion Hoop Dancer and she learned a lot about the nature and basics of aboriginal/native hoop…
Category Archives: Native American
Tony Duncan with Arvel Bird
One of the most fun times any performer can have on stage is when the choreography is put aside and the art of improvisation is embraced. Formality takes a back-seat as the performer brings a…
Kristen Schoenknecht
Kristen Schoenknecht is a contemporary hip hop hoop dancer who was taught by World Champion Hoop Dancer Dallas Arcand. She puts her own modern spin on the traditional here at the Gathering Our Voices 2013…
Hoop Dancer on So You Think You Can Dance
What happened when a hoop dancer with a modern native american style turned up to audition for So You Think You Can Dance? He was kind of treated like a crazy person.
Arik Pipestem, Pyrobelle and Electric Hoopster
What do you do when your house guest is a very well known hoop dancer? Why, you make a video of course, what else? Electric Hoopster (Deejay Dassylva) and Pyrobelle (Victorious Wood) – had an…
Electric Hoop with Arik Pipestem
In “Electric Hoop”, a documentary short by Ashley Bomberry and Mohsen Nazeri, the unexpectedly unique Erik “Arik” Pipestem describes his process of exploration on story telling through hoop dance. Fusing several traditional Native American pow wow hoop…
Nakotah LaRance
Nakotah LaRance is a six-time World Hoop Dance Champion whose star has really risen performing not only with Cirque Du Soleil’s “Totem” show and elsewhere, but he truly captured the hearts of a whole lot…
Red Cliff Women Hoop Dance in Wisconsin State Capital Rotunda
Women and girls hoop danced for the water, land, air and living creatures inside the Wisconsin State Capital Rotunda today while Wisconsin State Senators were inside debating a massive mining deregulation bill that would directly…