The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Samantha Gabai has taken a childhood toy — and applied it to dance. The University ...

Lessons she learned from her nearly 25 years in the circus help with her current job as a stage rigger — someone who wears harnesses and handles ropes and cables that performers hang from. She works ...

Stomach out. Then suck it back in. That’s the way to keep a hula hoop spinning around your middle, explains Rachel Attardi to her class of eager hoopers. But the students in Ms. Attardi’s class at the ...

As a kid, hula hooping meant that day in gym class where you tried to get the hoop to go around your waist more than once without it falling. There were always a few who spun circles around the rest ...

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FARGO - Ariel Waloch, of Fargo, started hula-hooping when she was a junior in high school because she needed a talent for a pageant competition. So years later when she found out Inspire Dance and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Twenty-two-year-old Brookelynn Bley takes hula hooping to a whole new level. Bley only picked up hula hooping three years ago, but she's already a total beast at it.

Instead of spinning hoops around the waist as kids have done for decades, Hula-Hoop dancers have some new moves as the trend returns. They are now throwing them into the air and twirling them around ...