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[oakenguy]

Last night was a get-together for folks interested in fire dancing/fire spinning. (On good Thursdays there's fire, on bad weather Thursdays there's socializing at a pub. I like it.)

Even by *my* standards, it's a wacky group of people. There's a middle-aged voiceover artist, a web designer who just moved here on a whim from Oregon, the voiceover artist's daughter who's a bike courier and radio station intern, and a woman who couldn't make it because her neuroscience work was taking a lot longer than she'd expected.

At one point, the folks on both sides of me were talking costumes: the Oregon woman's housemate is a costumer who works mostly with liquid latex and feathers: she says she'd love to make outfits for fire dancers to make them look like lizards or birds. The voiceover artist has a number of NY friends who love dressing up in giant bear suits and roaming the streets in mobs (she seems to be totally unaware of either the furry or gay male Bear subcultures, btw)--she was talking about organizing a huge bearsuit-manufacturing party. Liquid latex lizards or four-layers-of-fur bearsuits, oh my.

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[malterre.livejournal.com]

As a fire affectionado myself, uhm I'd sort of rank feathers for fire performers right up there with oh, crisco oil or methanol soaked babydoll t's or those sheer cotton pants with the fringe lightly brushed with gasoline..

But the idea of dressing of people as mythological birds that *spew* fire has a certain appeal to me :)

The furry culture would have a field day with this...
*snickering hard into keyboard*
Sorry! I can't help it! It's Friday!

[stonebutterfly.livejournal.com]

I went to a fire practice out in San Francisco when I was visiting friends and it was a lot of fun. Another friend was teaching me sword fighting. No flaming swords for me yet though. ;) I just watched the pretty lights.

I wasn't aware there were any folk who did that around here. Do they support/allow beginners or is it a seasoned group? Just curious. God knows, I'm horribly shy and don't even know why I'm asking but.. curiosity and cats, you know.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Well, a half hour's training and you'll be about at my level. They're VERY supportive of beginners (and even of shy people walking past slowly and maybe, if they feel like it, stopping to ask a question ;) )

[stonebutterfly.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm interesting.

Where is it? And when? Do they have a website or information anywhere?

Curiouser and curiouser ;)

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

That's the rub--while I know it's always around sunset on Thursdays, I don't know the location yet beyond being told "it's one of those places that's easy to get to, but when you try to give directions--pfft!--impossible." But as soon as I know, I'll try to describe it for you.

The central 'net watering hole for these folks is the NE_Poi community over on yahoogroups. (Well, that and the House of Poi, but that's only for looking at the instructional video clips and drooling over the expensive gear). http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NE_Poi

[stonebutterfly.livejournal.com]

I subscribed to the group so that I can lurk for a bit and see what's goin' on :) Thank you for the link.