FLAME Festival is the largest annual gathering of fire performers in the Southeast United States. Every year on the 2nd weekend of April, hundreds of performers gather for the sake of growth and innovation. During the day, we hold classes on a variety of props so everyone – whether you’re new or veteran – can learn and expand your skills alongside like-minded artists. At night, we all gather in the Fire Circle to show our new and old friends how we play. Whether you’ve been spinning for decades or haven’t even started, we would love to see you at the next FLAME Festival. Stay up to date with all FLAME Festival activity at our Facebook Page. Another great way to stay up to date is to join the facebook event for 2016. If you have any questions about the 2016 event, please contact FLAME Festival Team
This year for our first annual Instructor of the Year contest, the Festival directors nominated several outstanding instructors who are pushing the boundaries of teaching and skill excellence.
Becca Becker
Taught at:
- FLAME
- Fahrenheit
What’s your secret power?
- Well, if I told you, it wouldn’t be a secret. 😉
When you aren’t a flow superhero, what is your Clark Kent alias?
- Prop maker / Secretary / home Chef/ Amateur gem and mineral miner
What are your main classes?
- Intro to fan tech: Topics covered – fan geometry, linear wick iso’s, anti-spins, and in-spins, light grid work, and some fancy moves!
- Tosses: Learn how to chunk your fans, and look good doing it. (this was my old class that is now in retirement!)
- Flowers: Various flowers using the VTG.
- Transitions through relations: Using all of the relations of fans and learning to transition through them seamlessly. (My new class for the upcoming festival season.)
Additional Teaching:
- Flowida
- PlayThink
- Flow Camp
- Earthdance
- The Space Atlanta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65NUJ_DgrtU&feature=youtu.be
Krisstina Hawks – Ninja Pyrate
Taught at:
- FLAME
- Kinetic Fire
- Fahrenheit
What’s your secret power?
- I can teach people how to identify their own glitch points, breaking moves into sections for faster progress. No one is immune to my powers! Want to learn 15-minute fishtails? Come look at my diagram. Science for the win!
When you aren’t a flow superhero, what is your Clark Kent alias?
- I am the Cofounder of Ninja Pyrate (fire and glow props) as well as The Floasis Brooklyn, and soon to be The Floasis Atlanta.
What are your main classes?
- Contact Staff FUNdamentals” – 4 half hour blocks that teach a horizontal steve (prepped for the prayer transfer), a halo (wrist-shoulder-shoulder-wrist), a reverse fishtail, and an angel roll.
- Getting Down, Footloose and Ground” – contact staff – class switches between standing work using foot locks, and groundwork coming from a breakdancing background.
- Intro to Dragon Staff” – The first 20 minutes teaches you the chi roll, but the last 40 work on translating contact staff moves to dragon, focusing on the application of duck-outs.
Additional Teaching:
- Flow Camp
- Flowida
- FlowStorm
- Texas Flow Fest
- Eflowlution
- Wildfire
- Mountain Flow Fest
- MoFlow
- Flow Down
- PlayThink
- Earth Dance.
“We believe in providing all sorts of educational content, and film tutorials of others as well as prop making DIY videos. It was an honor just to be nominated, and all that jazz.”
Casey Houle
Taught at:
- FLAME
What’s your secret power?
- I take no credit for my secret power. All credit goes to the Dark Lord.
When you aren’t a flow superhero, what is your Clark Kent alias?
- I work with Incendia, the fire domes. And I’m developing a tv show.
What are your main classes?
- Intro to Grid Tracing: visualizing the nine grid on floor plane. For intermediate double staff.
- Vertical grid tracing: visualizing the nine grid on vertical planes and learning several patterns that draw the grid.
- Exploring the Uncarved Block: Full 27 cube exploration with doubles. Combining horizontal and vertical sequences.
Additional Teaching:
- So Ill
- Kinnection