Una Fonte ’26 dances across the Ainsworth classroom with a spinning yellow hula hoop. She rolls the hoop across both hands and behind her back, raises it over her head like a giant serving plate, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was way back in 2008 when I first started noticing that the hula hooping fad was making a comeback in Buffalo (see here). At the time, I wasn’t aware that there was one person who was taking the ...

Elvis may have broken the social barrier against swiveling hoops. But it was the folks at Wham-O who really got the world rocking and rolling when they introduced the Hula Hoop in 1958. Inspired by ...

Weighted hula hooping may help support weight loss by boosting calorie burning, increasing core strength, and reducing abdominal fat mass. But more research is needed. Hula hooping is an ancient dance ...