Introducing Howard Chen, physician and fire safety director for Flow Arts Institute. Together, we’ve created a Fire and Fuel safety program. The content is split into 3 parts: Fire Performer Safety for those dancing with fire, Fire Safety Personnel for those keeping the dancers safe, and Fuel Safety for safe protocols for managing your fuel spin off, storage and disposal. There …
The FireDrums XIII Video Tutorial Contest has opened up submissions for the Video Tutorial Contest! They are taking submissions until March 15. The prizes are pretty huge as you will have the chance to win one of 3 ticket and travel stipend combos to FireDrums. You don’t have to enter this contest if you want to teach at FireDrums (but …
The flow arts community is all about flow. It’s our namesake. We understand the value in finding that blissful state between mind and body connection. Now there is a research institute dedicated to studying why and how this state occurs. Perhaps we will see some research come out of fire performing or other aspects of the flow arts. You can …
You may have caught it at Kinetic Fire in 2014, but here it is a gain. In order to do this trick, you must work on your point balance by focusing on the mid point of the hoop and stay under it while it balances on the back of your hand. Keeping your arm straight and lifting up letting the …
Noel Yee explains the history and uses of contact staff. Contact staff refers to spinning the staff without using the fingers or thumbs to grip the staff. Many of the modern contact staff techniques come from baton twirling community and the Chinese art of Fei-Cha. Contact Staff artists create remarkable visual effects since the staff movement seems so smooth and controlled …
Ken Hill shows us a different way to catch the nunchuk on our bicep versus our hand. He then adds a transition slicing the nunchuk over to our back shoulder. This is a really neat move to practice your ninja like skills. Try it out with your contact poi, too.