When I was a little girl, I used to love hula-hooping. That said, I’ve never had a very good sense of rhythm, so keeping the hoop moving was a bit of a challenge for me.
But, as it turns out, hula-hoops aren’t just for kids anymore! Lots of gymnasts, dancers, and hobbyists have worked together to pioneer a whole new art form called hoop-dancing. Needless to say, these women do not share my lack of rhythm.
Perhaps inspired by rhythmic gymnasts like Margarita Mamun, hoop-dancing routines incorporate the traditional spin that we’re used to — that hoop spinning around the hips that we all recognize — but also get far more complicated.
In fact, hoop-dancing routines can involve everything from simple spinning to complex hoop-based acrobatics, as we saw with this dance troupe in North Korea. It’s all a matter of what kind of choreography the dancers are capable of creating.
And for the ladies at “Hooptown,” it seems like there might be no limit to what they’re capable of doing with a hula-hoop in hand! This routine, for example, is set to the Jessie J hit “Bang Bang,” and it involves sultry dance moves, incredible displays of balance, and some truly mind-boggling visual effects. Check out the amazing moves in the video below.
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