ShanDien LaRance started learning the hoop dance at age 8. She went off to join the circus at 19. LaRance, who is Hopi, Tewa, Navajo, and Assiniboine, joined her brother Nakotah, a nine-time world ...
Jul. 29—When Steve LaRance moved to New Mexico 10 years ago, he found no native hoop dancers in the state. LaRance, who lives at Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, co-founded the Lightning Boy Foundation, ...
As a little boy, no more than 4 or 5 years old, Nakotah LaRance went on a road trip that shaped the rest of his life. “His aunt took him on what we call the ‘powwow trail’ where they basically spend ...
Kristina Sutcliffe of O Dance; Image courtesy of Kristina Sutcliffe The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Like many who first try hoop dance, I was ...
Many kids who grow up off the reservation don’t dream of going back to their people’s traditional ways. For Eric Michael Hernandez, Lumbee, who grew up in Southern California away from his tribe in ...
It’s not every day you get to watch a world champion up close and in action. 2011 World Champion Hoop Dancer Tony Duncan will give two presentations Wednesday at Mesa libraries that will allow you to ...
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 ...
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, ...
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