Morgan Jenkins — known across the hoop world as Miss Mo’Jangles — is a Los Angeles-based hoop performer, international instructor, creative director, and filmmaker. Named the 2016 USA Hooper of the Year, Morgan has spent over a decade at the intersection of cinema and hoop dance, building one of the most distinctive creative voices the flow arts community has ever seen.

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina and educated at UNCSA with a BFA in Filmmaking (class of 2005), Morgan brought Hollywood to hooping before anyone else thought to do it. She works as a camera assistant on TV productions and channels that same cinematic eye into her hoop videos — award-winning short films that have pulled in 3.5 million YouTube views and taken her to stages and studios around the globe.

Morgan’s path to the hoop was anything but linear — and entirely cinematic. Her first encounter came through a filmmaker friend editing a documentary called The Hooping Life. She dismissed it, took home a giant hoop, and promptly stored it untouched.

“It was like what I had seen in all of the movies — when girl sees boy and everything becomes slow motion and time slows down. THAT is what happened when I saw that hooper dance on stage.”

It was 2012, at an 80s/90s mashup event called Bootie LA, that everything changed. She watched hooper Ellen Phillips light up the stage with an LED hoop and was transfixed. She asked for a lesson. Ellen told her to show up at Venice Beach that weekend — and her first “lesson” turned out to be street performing on the Venice Boardwalk.

She hasn’t looked back since.

Morgan’s award-winning hoop films are not just performance videos — they are short cinema. Produced with the same technical rigor she brings to her day job in Hollywood, each film blends movement, music, and narrative into something the hoop community had never seen before. Combined, they have reached over 3.5 million views on YouTube.

• Despondence
• Halo
• Worth It
• Bang Bang
• Portal
• Ready For It
• Flowmance
• Dark Paradise
• LUCID

“I blend my love for cinematography and editing with music and hooping in a way that focuses on cinema and dance as storytellers. I hope to inspire other hoopers to tell their stories through movement, cinema, and hoop love.”

Morgan’s Hollywood contacts and hoop skills combined to push hooping into mainstream pop culture in ways few performers have managed. Her Showtime acting role in Cameron Crowe’s Roadies — a show inspired by Crowe’s own Almost Famous, Morgan’s favourite film — was a full-circle moment.

Morgan co-founded the Hooptown Hotties, a renowned LA-based hoop troupe known for their innovative creative content, LED and fire hoop performances, and high-production music video work. The Hotties have performed at live events, festivals, and major shoots across Los Angeles and beyond.

What drives all of it is a deeply held belief in what the hoop community represents at its best:

“The flow community can make a positive impact on the world by keeping its arms open to those who need it most. Hooping seems to find people more than they find it, and new hoopers should be celebrated and welcomed unconditionally.”

Morgan has taught at international retreats and events from Malaysia to across the US. Her philosophy — teach people to #hooplikeyou, not like anyone else — has made her one of the most beloved instructors in the global hoop community.

Fun fact: The name “Miss Mo’Jangles” came from a friend singing “Mr. Bo’Jangles” around a campfire in Arizona — replacing Bo with Mo. It was never meant to be her performance name. It just stuck.