Hoop Dance History and Lessons with Wayne Fox

And it’s just it’s just the things you do especially when you pick up this dance the hoop dancer it’s with one of the oldest type of dances and as any human being you’re going to have your own struggles in life you know and that’s where the hoop dance comes in when you’re dancing you you see how beautiful it is on how the world is if you look back at it and you and you really reflect on everything that we do and it comes down to being a circle you know or like I said our water cycle our four seasons are the trees even the plant cycle you know how they die how they come back and we look at it as even in life when we start from here where we start you know we’re an infant where we come to an infant and as we go along we become a young adult young adult a child and then we come down here then we become that young adult and in between this process here we become a parent a parent here and as we go through this process back up here we become that elder so we’re back at the same stage as a and I’m not saying an elder and a baby are the same but I know my mom she’s getting up there in age and you know I always have to say well you better call me when you go somewhere are you know how you get worried and that I think that’s one of the things and you know we my brother or my sisters I was texting did you see mom no she went off by yourself oh geez you know so you know so you you come you come back in full circle to that stage and so that’s how we see how you know how we see life and as you know as that hoop dancer and the same thing you know maybe through this stage here to this stage are from this stage to this stage there’s a struggling part that we go maybe that we go through whatever it might be you know and here you know so you know this this the circle the hoops they tell them they tell us you don’t know just the story of every individual you know if I told you to grab the hoop and yeah I told you here tell me your story by use of this hoop and then you would come in and you would start to go and you would really be truthful all the way through these stages I think that’s that’s one that’s one of the beautiful things about the circle you know to reflect on that and that’s one thing I always try to show my son about you know about the circle about the hoop and I think I know every time he was small he was so eager to eager to learn this dance and not only this dance but also the grass dance and but this dance has been in our family on my mom’s side the Haddad sucide the good bear side for many years and the story that I told was I know we were down and in ace Coast and we were performing I was just young then as well little or younger that he was and you know a gentleman named Kevin Locke came up to me you know no you could’ve asked him and I you know then later on he I you know asked me in where’d you learn this was that why I learned it from a from a man you know from a young man you up your way and I asked him what his name wasn’t he said Arlo good beard and I just like really shot now as I asked my uncle that’s my mom yeah that’s my mom’s brother and so it was kind of strange and once again you know you see the circle coming back again and into that into this dance so now that you know I’ve handed it to my son you know I’m hoping that you know what continues on you know within our family I know he has the young boy that’s a pretty eager I know he’s he’s starting to kind of get a little bit you know at first he didn’t want he would do Valyria apprehensive and then now I kind of look to the left of being and he was kind of start to dance a little bit so you know and we word we don’t you know we don’t force our kids to dance we don’t fort we don’t it you know I think it has to come and so I think that’s what he’s doing