Native performers from around the world will take part in the 33rd World Championship Hoop Dance Contest Feb. 18-19 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix.
Yvonne So For the Arizona Daily Star Representatives of indigenous communities from around the world will gather Feb. 18 and 19 in Arizona to celebrate their cultural heritage through hoop dancing.
People are also reading… Moontee’s son, the current defending adult world champion, says hoops were traditionally made from the wood of the willow tree. “The hoop is a representation of the cycle of life … there is no beginning and no ending, always ongoing,” Sampson Sinquah says. Men and women compete on an equal field, and individual routines feature as few as four or as many as 50 hoops. Dancers are judged on a slate of five skills: precision, timing/rhythm, showmanship, creativity and speed. Contestants compete in five age divisions and cash prizes totaling $25,000 are awarded in each division.
In a culture that reveres passing down tradition, hoop dance is being passed up to Moontee, as he learned the artform from his sons when he was 40 years old. Sampson and Scott started hoop dancing as toddlers. They studied under Quentin Pipestem of the Tsuut’ina nation of Alberta, Canada, the world champion adult dancer of the early 1990s.
Despite Moontee’s late start, he credits the support and encouragement of his immediate family and the larger hoop dance community with helping him capture three senior world titles since he started hoop dancing 16 years ago. They are sharing that love on a bigger platform now the Phoenix Suns are featuring their drumming and singing at home games. A couple years ago, after the Suns changed their jerseys to honor first nation tribes, the franchise commissioned Sampson to make a powwow drum — a three-foot drum that accommodates 10 singers.
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