{"id":74580,"date":"2021-11-30T22:09:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T03:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=74580"},"modified":"2021-12-17T22:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T03:14:23","slug":"dallas-arcand-owns-to-the-hoop-dance-who-he-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/dallas-arcand-owns-to-the-hoop-dance-who-he-is-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Arcand owns to the Hoop Dance who he is today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dallas Arcand is a multi-talented artist who won the world spotlight with his Hoop Dancing at the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. A three-time World Champion Hoop Dancer from the Alexander Plains Cree Nation near Edmonton, Alberta, he recently spoke to The Pulse\u2019s Gunargie O\u2019Sullivan about his life and work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen I first started this journey as being an artist, a lot of people didn\u2019t think that I would make it anywhere, and even people in the industry like other professional dancers or choreographers\u2026sat me aside and said, \u2018Hey, Dallas, you have a backup plan or is there something else that you can do in case this doesn\u2019t work for you?\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He is now passing on his skills and experience to his children. His son, Dallas Jr, is making a go at Hoop Dancing and has his own shows. Of the experience, Dallas says \u201cit\u2019s a lot easier to teach somebody else\u2019s kid. It\u2019s always been an ongoing challenge for me to teach him and guide him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dallas Arcand will be in Vancouver on December 12 for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1040143943226091\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UNSTRUNG<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a benefit concert for Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Land Defenders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listen to Dallas Arcand interview\u00a0 below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Resources:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasarcand.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dallas Arcand\u2019s website<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This interview is the second in a series on Indigenous Role Models<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Arcand is a multi-talented artist who won the world spotlight with his Hoop Dancing at the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. A three-time World Champion Hoop Dancer from the Alexander Plains Cree Nation near Edmonton, Alberta, he recently spoke to The Pulse\u2019s Gunargie O\u2019Sullivan about his life and work.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":74582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,221,204],"tags":[8790,11532,980,11533,741],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74580"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=74580"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=74580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}