Fire Twirling Articles

You europeans sure know how to throw a party. This sounds like it would have been a blast of an event to attend or participate in.

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I don’t know why, but I’m always more thrilled to hear about fire performance happening in places I think of as conservative. This is just a quick little article but worth noting for the Salt Lake City connection if nothing else. :)

A cute little article called “Pyromania: Taking the Leap From Mundane Existence” about Wanderlust, a Salt Lake City based fire performance group. What is it about Salt Lake City and fire performers??

Who knew Greensboro, NC was home to so much hotness? Great little interview with Patika Starr.

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Now that’s a tasty cocktail. This sounds like it would be absolutely perfect to wash the flavour of naptha out of your mouth.

It’s worth checking out this article just to see the picture of the little old bulgarian lady walking across the bed of red hot coals.

Oddly, many of the things they mention about their rituals being a consecration of a space, and the spiritual harmony between the musicians and the ‘firedancers’ resonates with my personal experience of ‘our kind’ of fire spinning.

I want to go spin fire in Hawaii! Hey Meilin and Ken, if we come to Hawaii can we hang ten with you? :)

A bit of insight into Controlled Burn, a conclave based in Reno that was under the man with us (and 700+ others) at Burning Man this year.

It figures that in New Zealand they’d have a post-secondary institute teaching fire twirling. Read the article for an excellent warning for men planning on taking up the hobby. ;)

A funny article about odd jobs listed on tribe.net. Fire dancing is one of the least outrageous, what does that tell you?