Fire Pixie Fire Performance

Fire Pixie in New Zealand April 11-30, 2012

2012-01-29T09:22:00.000-08:00

Fire Pixie is traveling to New Zealand and we are ALL kinds of excited. It's a trip for both business and pleasure.. we will be visiting some friends, making connections for clothing sales, and doing as much fire dancing as we can handle.

We will be based in Wellington but traveling all around the country. We've got one performance lined up at a fantastic private party, and would love to bring our firey firey fire show to more Kiwis. So let's do this!

Fire Pixie is a professionally run fire dance troupe which performs at a wide variety of venues in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. We present different styles of fire performance, from tribal, hand-drum driven shows to beautiful flamenco-style dance to polynesian luau fire shows - whatever fits the mood of your party.

We are extremely safety-conscious and insured for up to $2M. Our show has been featured all over the globe - we have wowed audiences in Japan, Bermuda, Brazil, Hawaii, Thailand and Jamaica as well as all over the USA. We're high-end and professional, but giving very low rates for shows in New Zealand - we really want to perform for you!

If you'd like to book us for a show, or are curious about whether we'd be right for your party please fill out our rate request form or contact us at 510.367.4517.

Chinese New Year Aerial Circus Show

2012-01-12T11:36:00.000-08:00

Fire Pixie Entertainment Presents

Dragonflight

A Multi-Cultural Circus Show for Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is known as "Spring Festival," marking the end of the winter season. 2012 ushers in the Year of the Dragon.

Our show begins with traditional storytelling, steeped in the history and culture of China and the mythical animals of the years - dragons, rabbits, monkeys and many more take turns influencing the year's events.

Next, our performers will present an aerial dance circus performance, "Dragonflight" - a story of fantasy and dragons that will astonish the audience and captivate their imaginations as they watch the dancers climb and soar through the air.

We finish the show by answering questions and educating the audience about the circus tradition and the Chinese New Year tradition.

Requirements & Logistics

30-40 minutes from start to finish
$500 for one performance, $700 for 2 performances in the same day
Perfect for elementary or middle school aged kids -We tailor the show to the age group
Sound system and $2MM performer's insurance is included

Rigging Requirements

15-25 foot ceilings required
We can rig from an eye bolt or an exposed support beam
Site inspection for rigging is included

Contact Us if you want more information or if you would like to check availability and book!

Erin St. Blaine
510.367.4517
info@firepixie.com
www.firepixie.com

New Year's Eve Aerial & Fire & Belly Dancing

2012-01-06T09:10:00.000-08:00

For NYE 2011, Fire Pixie was booked at the India Community Center in Milpitas to put on a New Year's Eve circus show. We rocked the house!

Opening act was a belly dance solo by Miriam. I absolutely love her fluttery fabric fans..

Our second act was an aerial tissu duet featuring Miriam and me. I was all kinds of excited about this. I've never done aerial for such a huge venue before and I was nervous as all get out.
We put together a new duet for this show.. the storyline was of a dragonrider and her dragon meeting and flying together. It was choreographed to original music by Darrell, my hubby and partner in crime. There's something so exciting about working together with a musician.. the music and the dance can grow organically together so that they fit together like legos. If the dance calls for a pause or a crash, the music can change to support it, and if the music calls for a legato section we can add that into the dance. It's a fluid kind of creation and frankly, kind of a rush. (More about making the costumes over at Fire Pixie Fashion)

Since it was a new piece, we'd had a "preview party" at my house the week before the performance, so we could perform it in front of an audience before the big show on NYE. This upped my confidence level enormously. And it really worked! I had the jitters until I heard the first drumbeats of the music start, and then found myself transported to that magical timeless flow state, flying through the routine effortlessly, spinning and dancing, climbing and dropping, connecting with the audience.

Moments like that are magical. This is why I choose this kind of life.

See the whole photo set here

After the show, the adrenaline rush took us right through the last set of the night, the fire show. I'll be honest.. we've done so many fire shows of this type that we don't even bother taking pictures anymore.. but we pulled it off with our usual aplomb and then made it back to Miriam's in time for a new year's champagne toast.

Happy New Year! I want to hear about your NYE adventures too!

New Year's Eve Body Paint

2012-01-03T08:16:00.000-08:00

I got so excited about the aerial dance we did on NYE that I completely forgot to post about the body painting I did that night. This was for a schwanky party down in the South Bay at a gorgeous mansion. They'd turned one of their many rooms into a dance club a-la Studio 54, and the lights around the grounds outside were tremendously beautiful. My contribution was painting Lady Liberty, who was positioned in the center of a round table right in the entrance hall. She was delightful!

San Jose State's Fire on the Fountain Show Photos

2011-11-14T21:09:00.001-08:00

I was trawling the internet late at night and happened upon these awesome photos of our fire show at San Jose State University's Homecoming from this year. It was a really fun show.. and TrueNoir got some really great shots!

Here's my favorite... spoooky!

Stilts and Lights in Sacramento

2011-07-06T09:01:00.000-07:00

Wednesday night I performed as a stilt walker and ambient performer / go-go dancer for the Pizza Rock collective on K St in downtown Sacramento. This was a pretty fun gig. The location was interesting - the Dive Bar, Pizza Rock, and Division 30 are all owned by the same folks and all next door to each other on K St, which is closed to traffic and a pretty cool place to hang out. The Dive Bar has a huge fish tank above the bar, in which they have real, live mermaids! (I gotta get in on that next time, I *love* being a mermaid)

Here are a few photos from the night, and a short light-spinning video too. It is *hard* to videotape light dancing but this one turned out ok. I am determined to get some quality lights video someday!!!

San Jose State Alumni's "Viva Variete" Show

2011-07-06T08:50:00.000-07:00

Last Tuesday, June 28, Fire Pixie co-produced and performed in Viva Variete. This was a collaboration with San Jose State University, and the biggest show I've ever produced (or co-produced, I can't say I did all that much). It was at the San Jose Repertory Theater, y'know, the Big Blue Cube theater, and it was a fundraiser event put on for SJSU Alumni.

I hired a little more than half the artists, and Darrell and I did a lot of the pre-planning and conceptual work. The nuts and bolts (lighting, tickets, venue, etc) were all taken care of by the SJSU team, who also wrote the final script and hired the other half of the artists. Tuesday we did a couple walk-throughs of the show and then performed it, and I have to say I am TOTALLY impressed with how smoothly it all went off. It was really a flawless show! No backstage drama. Everyone on time and all the acts were really professional and delightful.

We had aerialists, physical comedians, jugglers, beat boxers, belly dancers, contortion, vaudeville, hula hoopers, and Fire Pixie did a light show. I didn't get any photos from the show, but there was a video crew there and soon there will be footage to share.. yay!

We also had ambient entertainers in the lobby before the show, and these I did get photos of. Roller skating balloon twisters, stilt walkers, and cigarette girls. The costumes for the cig girls were what was keeping me oh-so busy the week before the show, and they turned out ADORABLE and now I have cigarette girl costumes so YAY!

Fire Dancing at Cache Creek Casino

2011-04-20T12:12:00.000-07:00

Fire Pixie was lucky enough to perform for the VIP Club party at Cache Creek Casino last weekend. We did 4 shows throughout the night on their gorgeous stage at Club 88. The whole place was decorated with a Fire & Ice theme.. I love doing fire & ice parties! Being a fire person, I'm really blown away and impressed with ice sculpture. This event had a 6 foot long bar made out of ice, with drinks inside it (how do they DO that??). The Ice Bartender was even brave enough to get her palm lit on fire by Darrell during one of the shows. I guess maybe she was cold? :)

Above is my favorite shot from the night, and here is a slideshow of all the best shots we got. Darrell has been playing with placing a camera on a timer at the back of the stage so it takes loads of pictures.. we have to weed out the blurries but ended up with some great stuff this time. Enjoy!

SFSU AIDS Awareness Day

2011-04-14T08:01:00.000-07:00

Today we'll be performing at the SFSU Aids Awareness Day again.. come on out and see us! We'll be performing at around 12:30 outside the Student Union. Come and support this awesome event and the amazing students who put it on every year.

This event is lots of fun, with games, booths, food and entertainment. The students always turn out for this one - be sure to come by for a fun lunchtime show if you're in the area.

Fire Dancing in the Rain

2010-11-21T09:36:00.000-08:00

Last night we did a fire show for a 16th birthday party in Sacramento. This show had been booked for MONTHS and the hostess was really excited about it.. we were too! It was a very cool location, right near the capital building, and a "Fire & Ice" theme which is some of our best stuff.

When yesterday's thunder storm rolled in, I called the hostess.. Would the show go on? The wind was whipping, the rain was driving and there was dramatic thunder and lightning! We hemmed & hawed for a moment .. but then decided that yes, the show must go on. I braved the traffic and the 2 hour drive, and got to the restaurant right on time.

It was raining BUCKETS. I was a little nervous about the PA system.. electronics and rain do not do well together.. but I was able to borrow a catering cart and drape fabric all around to make a little "tent" for the speakers, and cranked it up just as loud as it would go to overcome the incredible noise of the rain drops. The hostess pulled some capers to trick all the guests into coming outside in the rain, and then the show began.

Remember how fun it was to stomp in puddles when you were a kid?

Well, as the music started, I got a huge surge of energy. There's this moment.. at first, you're trying your best to stay as dry as possible. Keeping the hood up, avoiding the deepest of the puddles, hurrying to any overhang you can see.. and then there is an internal shift. The music starts, your shoulders relax, your jacket comes off and you turn and face the rain... and embrace it. Embrace the wet, embrace the cold, jump into the puddles and smile. The rain drops sizzle as they hit the fire. The audience shivers until you get close and share the fire's heat. The light reflects from the puddles and from the falling drops, surrounding you in a magical halo of warmth and fairy lights.

When you embrace the rain while being embraced by the fire, the magic of the opposite elements twirling around you and surrounding you is absolutely transcending.

The last time I fire danced in pouring rain was at Castello di Amarosa, the very first time we performed there. It was magical, and still one of my favorite fire dancing memories of all time. This weekend's show might not rank up with the favorites.. but it sure did an amazing job of making me feel truly alive.

Being an entertainer means bringing performance and art off the TV screen and into the real world. Sometimes the real world presents challenges.. but if it's too easy, is it really worth doing? Transcendence is easiest to find on the opposite side of adversity.

2010-11-09T09:04:00.001-08:00

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Fire Dancing for Diwali at Junnoon in Palo Alto

2010-11-03T15:35:00.000-07:00

If you're looking for something fun to do for Diwali this weekend come check us out! We will be performing at Junnoon Restaurant on Friday night (November 5) and possibly also November 6. Come have some delicious indian food in an absolutely delightful restaurant with great atmosphere - and of course, Fire Dancers!!

Photo booth!

2010-11-03T11:22:00.001-07:00

..at the Nimitz Halloween Mansion party..

Next time I'll be more careful not to make Darrell mad. ;)

Halloween

2010-10-30T17:30:00.001-07:00

I love doing halloween fire shows! I love parties where absolutely everyone dresses up in costume. I love the challenge of having to give my costume that extra "oomph" so I still stand out as a performer. I LOVE HALLOWEEN.

I did a stilt walking show at the Live 105 Spookfest last night, and that was pretty crazy. There were 4 of us stilt walking altogether and we had blinky spinny light toys (yes, I can hula hoop on stilts and YES it's very difficult) and we had a fun time wandering around the Cow Palace making people's jaws drop. My costume was the Queen of Hearts, or rather the Red Queen from the newer Alice in Wonderland movie, "scaried" up a little bit for fun.

From now on, every time I go to a concert or a show at a huge event center like the cow palace, I'm doing it on stilts. I could *see*! And there was room up there to spin my spinny toys without hitting anyone. And.. well, I got a backstage pass and preferred parking and got paid to be there instead of having to pay to get in.

It was challenging though.. the crowd was thick and young and energetic, and there were plenty of spilled drinks on the floor. Wet floors + thick crowds + stilts is a recipe for disaster.. and I did slip and fall at one point. I had my kneepads on so I didn't get hurt too bad, but I did bruise my right elbow and my left palm, and my nose just a bit too. Luckily there were about 15 cute, costumed 20 year old guys around to pick me back up again. I was amazed at how quick I was back on my feet.

I guess a fall is inevitable at some point in one's stilt walking career, and I'm glad it's over with. :)

Tonight is a fire show at the Nimitz Mansion on Yerba Buena Island. I'm pretty excited! Halloween RULES!

2010

2010-03-05T13:39:00.000-08:00

Wow, it's been a while since I updated - so much of my exciting news gets posted on facebook these days that I don't always remember to post here as well.

A couple fun things to share.. I will be featured spinning fire on an episode of "What would Brian Boitano Make?" which will air on March 28 at 1:00 pm on the Food Network. I can't wait to see how it turned out!

Also, Darrell is starring in a new GMC commercial, which can be seen here. Fun stuff, that!

As for now, the shows are starting to roll in, and plenty of excitement is on the horizon. We'll be traveling to Brazil to do some performing in late March and early April, and I'll be dancing at Forbidden Island's annual luau on May 16 - I've done this event the last 3 years and it's always a complete blast! Come on out if you're in the neighborhood. :)

Back to Business

2009-09-14T19:59:00.000-07:00

It's been a week since the California State Fair run ended and we're *finally* feeling fully rested. It's always both exciting and a little sad when a show reaches its end. We met so many wonderful people during the run, and really pushed our limits with the heat and the sheer physicality of the shows. It's good to be home, where the delicious rain lets us know that fall is on its way, but I do miss the excitement and energy and adventure that the fair offered.

Here are some awesome photos, taken by the amazing folks from Fairytale Productions, who had a face painting booth near our stage (and wandered by several times a day in princess costumes, which made me giddily happy).

We did a luau fire show for a 40th wedding anniversary this past weekend and were astonished at how very *slow* our regular luau music felt compared to the frenetic craziness that was our state fair set! But after that performance, I have to say that my own style and showmanship has developed quite a lot over the last few weeks. I don't know how much it might show, but my control and awareness during the show has certainly attained a new level, which feels really wonderful.

Also, I've got a million new show ideas, and now that my body's had a bit of a break, I'm diving in headfirst. We got the opportunity to go to Teatro Zinzanni this weekend with some friends, and now we're considering putting together a gypsy fire show. I'm also working on some cool ideas with aerial tissu, black light and LED dancing all combined with video projection.. my imagination will run away with me, if I let it!

Looking forward to seeing what surprises the fall season brings.. :)

California State Fair

2009-08-30T09:05:00.000-07:00

We've made it to the halfway point of the State Fair! Yay!

Our show has been rockin', and the audiences are really a lot of fun. The only major drawback is the heat - yesterday it was up to 104 and we were melting on that hot, hot stage. When it gets that hot, we have to be extra careful and aware since accidents are all lining up to happen. Fire tools are igniting early, as soon as they get anywhere near a fire source, the bright sun makes it hard to see lingering flames, and the heat makes us feel heavy, sleepy and a little clumsy. We're drinking gallons and gallons of water and sweating it all right out again, so overall I imagine this is good for us in the long run, even if it's not a whole lot of fun in the meantime.

The weather report says today will be cooler, and Monday through Friday looks to be way down in the 80s. We are keeping our fingers crossed. :) At least the evenings have been beautiful - we have a longer break between our last two shows and have taken to wandering around the fair at dusk, seeing the other shows and taking silly pictures and looking at all the animals. Our favorites: newborn piglets, the garden of gigantic proportions, and Frank Olivier's Twisted Cabaret show.

The Sacramento media has found us, and we've gotten to do a couple of TV spots, with one more scheduled on Monday morning. Here's a link to our favorite one!

State Fair Diaries

2009-08-23T08:59:00.000-07:00

We made it through Day 2 of the California State Fair! :) 2 days down, 16 more to go. Here's hoping we don't melt into little puddles or burn ourselves crispy in the process!

We're doing 3 or 4 shows every day - at 4, 6, and 9 pm on weekdays and 2, 4, 6 and 9 on the weekends. Our shows are a half hour long, so that means 2 full hours of fire on the weekends - exciting, and also exhausting!

Friday it was *really* hot. We got in and found our site, after much wandering around carrying gallons and gallons of fuel. We are sharing a trailer with the African Acrobats, in the Weird, Wild and Wacky zone right in the center of the fair. There's also an awesome magician and a bird show right in our area, so there's a lot going on and things were pretty crazy the first day. Also, did I mention it was HOT?

Our stage is really awesome. It's... well.. wacky, with a funky corrugated-metal-and-mirrors look. It is also a nice reflecting mirror, so the Sacramento summer sun can get us from 3 sides instead of just one, while we help by twirling huge fireballs around. The first day we sweated and panted through our daytime shows, rocked the nighttime show, and then dragged home and collapsed.

Saturday was much better - the weather was cooler, the audiences were bigger, and we weren't feeling so off-balance - we knew where the stage was, where the water was, and where to find air conditioning and iced coffee. Also, after just two days we've performed this show seven times, and it just gets tighter and sillier every time. At the end of the first day we knew all the things we needed to change. At the end of the second day, we know all the things we want to develop. By the end of today we're going to be Vegas, Baby.. and by Labor Day, the WORLD. Muahahahahaaa..

I'm looking forward to the opportunity to create and try out a lot of new choreography, as will inevitably happen when we get sick of doing the same show over and over. I'm doing fire hula hoop for this show, which is fairly new to me, and I'm enjoying it a whole lot (last night a little girl came up to me after the show and told me the hula hoop was her favorite part! I must be doing it right!).

If anyone wants to come out and see us, I really recommend coming to the 9:00 show - it's dark so the fire shows up, it's not so hot, and we seem to regularly ROCK that show!

I will post some pictures soon, and stay tuned for more wacky adventures to come. :)

San Mateo County Fair

2009-08-15T09:50:00.000-07:00

We do a lot of private parties, and people are often asking me where they can see us perform in public.. well, tonight is the night - the first of many!

We'll be performing tonight at the San Mateo County Fair at 9:00 PM on the Carnival Borough Stage. If you can't catch us tonight, we'll also be there tomorrow (Sunday), as well as Wednesday and Thursday the 19th & 20th.

San Mateo County Fair

Then, starting on Friday we'll be at the California State Fair in Sacramento. We'll be doing 3-4 shows a day, every day from 8/20 - 9/7 in the "Weird Wild and Wacky" area.. shows will be at 4, 6, and 8 pm with a 2:00 show added on weekends and holidays.

California State Fair

Please come on out and play with us!

That 70s Show

2009-08-06T14:05:00.001-07:00

Yesterday I had a pretty unusual show - it was a blacklight / glow light show for kids at a summer camp at Club Sport in Fremont. The summer camp theme was centered around the decades of the 20th century, and for a blacklight show, I was assigned the 1970s.

What fun it was! I got to dance to great songs like "I will survive," "Dancing Queen," and of course, "Greased Lightnin'" from the Grease soundtrack. It was also my very first public hula hooping performance (I recently got a blacklight reactive hoop and so was very excited to try it out). It went really well!

I feel oh-so gutsy, being brave enough to perform a hula hoop routine for the first time ever, in front of a big group of 7-12 year old girls.. ALL of whom could probably hula hoop me right out the door. But they loved it.. and I knew a trick or two that some of them didn't, so they were duly impressed. :)

I also had the opportunity to perform with my new amazing light poi. A friend made these for me recently. They are about 5x as bright as any other light poi I've ever seen, let alone owned, and are programmable (!!!) so I can make them do pretty much whatever I want - colors, strobe rates, brightness, patterns.. there's even a music reactive mode, where they listen to the ambient sound and flash accordingly. Amazing! And they're controlled by a remote control, so my tech guy can make them change on the fly. The kids went crazy!

The third new thing were the Dancing Wings I got at Faerieworlds.. these are amazing. They're a beautiful costume addition, a very easy performance tool, and they were everyone's favorite thing! With light shows I let the kids play with the lights after I'm done dancing, and the kids wouldn't put these down. I got the black light reactive ones in green, and let me tell you, they SCREAM under UV light.

I really need to get some photos of all the new stuff, but black light is notoriously hard to photograph or videotape. If you're local and wanna help, please drop me a line!

Fire Arts Festival

2009-07-24T09:33:00.000-07:00

Fire Pixie had the wonderful opportunity to perform at the Fire Arts Festival this year with Copper Lantern Fire Theatre.

Fire Arts happens once a year and people really pull out all the stops: huge metal monsters that shoot fire, all kids of art and beautiful kinetic sculptures everywhere, great people and great energy, and lots of amazing performers! We were honored to be invited to perform this year. :)

Fire Pixie's performance was an acrobatic balancing, fire eating routine which was just a small piece of Copper Lantern's longer show. Our costumes were very much fun - the story line was full of beasts and lizards and fantasy creatures, and we got to be slinky, silly cat creatures. We went crazy with the face paint and crazy cat-eye contact lenses. Performing as a non-human is so fun and silly and liberating!

Also, we LOVE doing big stage shows, and love performing with so many wonderful dancers, fire spinners, and artists. Fire Arts Festival really does a great job of building and fostering the fire community in the Bay Area.

Tissu at the lake

2009-07-15T09:57:00.001-07:00

I've been up at the lake the last couple of days and it's been lovely. We strung the tissu between two trees and did lots of photographing.. it's a lovely place to hang out. I haven't been motivated to actually practice any choreography, which is becoming a more pressing problem as faerieworlds is in 2 weeks and I've only got the first 1/5 of the dance choreographed. The bugs, the sun, the breeze, the beauty, the big box of gingersnaps, all seem to distract me though. Also, the lack of music.. and the lack of mirrors. I'm pretty spoiled by my living room performance space I guess.
There was much adventure in rigging. Darrell was the mastermind and had a whole bunch of tools and confusing-looking gear.. several tree-scrapes, rope burns, failed attempts, near-death frights, trips to the hardware store, and hours of precarious ladder-balancing later we managed to string a cable between two trees and hang the tissu from it. It works really, really well! I'm very impressed with Darrell. We were describing the idea to lots of folks before we tried it, and got lots of skepticism and nay-sayers, but the amount of tension on the cable is just perfect - a little bouncy but that actually makes it more comfortable to bounce and drop and stuff, and it feels super safe.

Originally we wanted to hang it at 30 feet but we had only a 16 foot ladder. The first time we tried rigging I climbed all the way up the rope to a 30 foot tree branch and then freaked out and my body seized up and brain stopped working, and I had to BREATHE and slide back down the rope and shake for a while (got a nice rope burn on my shin from that one) and we decided rigging lower down, from the ladder, was the way to go this time. We've got ideas for setting up a belay so we can rig from higher heights but this time it just wasn't gonna happen. Plenty of height for close-up shots though.. the far-away silhouettes will just have to be next time.

We did 2 shoots on Monday - a sunny one and a dusk one. Then Tuesday we did an early morning shoot and a late-night, after dark shoot (at which the swarming bugs were the main event, oh MY), and then one more early morning

on Wednesday. Tissu dancing is one thing.. tissu hanging-and-posing is a bit different, and pretty tough on the ol' arm muscles - most especially at 6:00 am! (try to squeeze your fists hard enough to support your body weight right after you wake up.. combined with morning stiffness and chilliness.. that photo shoot was TOUGH!) The light was just beautiful though, with some mist on the lake and everything really still.. I think we got some really beautiful photos.
It's funny.. I remember going through this phase with fire dancing, when I'd been doing it for just a year or so. All I wanted to do was dress up, experiment with the techie stuff, and take pictures.. fun locations, crazy costumes, interesting lighting, colored flame.. no

w that bit of fancy has been transferred to tissu. I really hope tissu follows the same path as fire dancing, where I've gotten to perform so many amazing places that I don't feel the need to bother with photos anymore. :)

In the meantime.. my next wacky idea is to rig from the Donner Lake Rainbow Bridge. Let me know if you want to be involved! We'll need photographers, grips, and someone to stand there and spin me around so I'm facing the right direction.. ;)

Iowa State University Trip

2009-04-20T15:47:00.000-07:00

It's a sleepy Monday after a long weekend of traveling and fire. We had a 5-dancer show at the VEISHEA celebration at Iowa State University on Saturday night, and really had a great time on the trip.

This is the second year we've performed at VEISHEA and this year the weather, despite forecasts to the contrary, was just beautiful. The party was hopping, the crowd was really enthusiastic and the show was really well received.

We did two sets, ending at around 3:00 am, and dragged ourselves back to the hotel room to sleep while the college kids continued to party. (It seems they do it right, it Iowa.. :) This type of event always has lots of other fun entertainment as well, and we got to see glass-walking, juggling, mentalism, fun with a tesla coil, and even chainsaw juggling between sets. I loved being a part of such a wacky show!

Got home a day late, due to missed connections at the airlines, and not all the dancers have made it back yet but everyone is finally aboard a plane and on their way back to the Bay Area. Trips like this fill me up at the same time they tire me out. I'll be sleeping really well tonight.. but I'm glad I did make it back in time to take a nap before performing at the 4/20 party for Harborside Health Center tonight. (Oasis Nightclub in Oakland! We're at 9:30 and 10:15, come on out and don't miss us!)

San Francisco State AIDS Awareness Day

2009-04-15T08:17:00.000-07:00

Today we're doing a fire show at San Francisco State University for their AIDS awareness day. We've performed at this event the last 2 years as well and it's always a lot of fun. The student organizers do a really great job, and despite the bright sun (never a fire show's best friend!) the crowd always seems to enjoy our show.

This year we've added a whole bunch of new acrobatics, especially during the fire eating routine. Here's hoping it's not too windy! Eating fire while standing on someone's shoulders can be slightly problematic in a stiff breeze ;) and yesterday's windstorm was pretty intense. Well, I will do my very best. Come on out and see us, if you can make it! 1:16 at the Student Union.

Fire Show Season

2009-03-31T12:12:00.000-07:00

As winter turns into spring our Fire Show season is really picking up. We're doing a lot of interesting shows this year, and really enjoying the dual challenges of performing in new and different spaces, and of creating new material and new shows for our fantastic repeat clients.

The Bollywood theme is hot this season! We've been doing a lot of Indian and Afghani weddings and parties. Our Bollywood show is rapidly becoming our new favorite.. with such upbeat music and silly, fun energy and dance styles, it'd be hard not to love performing to Bollywood music!

We also had the privilege of performing at Rhythmix Cultural Works this past Sunday morning for a church service put on by the Alameda Spiritual Living Center. Each month they focus on a theme and March's theme was fire. We had a really wonderful time performing for such a connected, loving group of people - their "handshake" is a warm hug, and their enthusiasm for fire and new experiences was really unmatched. What a wonderful way to spend a Sunday morning. :)

We're looking ahead to several really fun shows in April, including performing at San Francisco State's AIDS awareness event again this year, and traveling to Iowa State University's huge springtime party called VEISHEA. Here's hoping the weather stays beautiful!