Tag Archives: Manchester
Henna Matanuska at Manchester Hoop Congress
Henna Matanuska of MataHoops taught and performed this year at the Manchester Hoop Congress in the UK, an event organized by Gail O’Brien of Hoopspin. Here we get the chance to drop in for a…
Jo Mondy: Gold
Manchester, England, was recently host to the annual Manchester Hoop Congress, organized by Gail O’Brien, which had some of the world’s most amazing, dynamic, and talented hoopers meeting, teaching workshops, and performing over what surely…
Sade Amina Nadour
Sade Amina Manour’s very first hooping video proves she is a force to be reckoned with. Working with filmmaker Cal Thomson, together they’ve created this definitively eye catching piece of performance art, one of those…
300 Rochdale Kids Set New Choreographed Hula Hoop World Record
As crowds waited for the Olympic Flame to arrive in Rochdale’s Town Centre in the UK, 300 schoolchildren gathered on The Butts for their attempt at breaking the Guinness World Record for a choreographed hula…
Lucinda Boutin Makes Her Own Hooping Music
Lucinda Boutin started hooping last year to lose weight and she’s been hooping it up ever since. In fact she’s lost 35 pounds to date is looking forward to a summer of hooping herself happy.…
Trading Smokes for Hoops Pays Off
Deborah Platt (pictured), a former smoker who managed to kick the habit, is planning on hooping the entire 10km Great Manchester Run in Manchester, England, UK. Platt, of Clarence Street, Padgate, smoked for about 14…
Hooping at Bonnaroo
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Hilary Palmer hoops it up at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. She lives in Spearfish, South Dakota. Photo courtesy of The Citizen Times