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I don't really know why I gave this topic its own section, but on the basis
that it's something i spend a large chunk of my time doing/practicing these days, it
should really have one. Maybe if i find something more exciting in a few months it will
get relegated to somewhere else. Anyway, the entitling this section 'fire' is a perhaps
a bit non descriptive. What I actually mean is fire performing, but the words 'fire performing'
contain too many characters to fit on the menu system i made for the site, so it got left off.
Now back to the blurb, which i'm sure you can't wait to read.......
Like most people I've always liked fire. I'm not a pyromaniac in a criminal sense, I
don't set fire to buildings and watch the fire brigade put it out whilst I pleasure
myself or anything like that, but I do have a healthy love of and respect for the stuff.
I'd seen fire performers at various times in my life before, so it's not like it was
anything new, but at festivals in the summer of 2002 I saw various people playing with fire
and was inspired to say the least. The main difference this time was that instead of it
being well trained circus folk whom I'd never met, many of them were people I'd already
met in previous summers and knew to be rather ordinary (sorry guys, but you don't live
exactly live in gypsy caravans and tour the country with a bearded lady). In all honesty watching it done
was probably one of the coolest things I've seen in a very long time, so within days I
was making my own gear and learning moves. A few months later I was using proper fire
props.
The idea of taking an element as dangerous and beautiful as fire and playing with it,
spinning it around your body at high speed on the end of chains, is an extremely
exhilarating experience. Fire can never be tamed, if you loose respect
for it then it will hurt you, but at the same time being able to work with something as
primal and mystical as it really is privilege. It's hard to put into words, but it is
possible to become totally intoxicated on the high that follows a good fire performing
session. Or maybe that's just the result of breathing too many toxic fumes, I dunno :-)
At current I use 2 different types of props for performing, fire chains and fire staff.
Details on each can be found by clicking the links in the table on the left.
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