Firedancing

Fire dancing is an art in witch you jiggle or spin the burning balls, they are hinged on chains and called poi you can also spin the stick which has burning ends or spit likewise swallow the fire. The word "poi" comes from Maori language and it exactly means balls hinged on strings. From there too - Maori the whole art has been taken out. -. It is a national tradition cultivated from hundreds of years. Women dealt with it, in order to maintain the nimbleness and proficiency of their wrists (If there weren"t any nicer manners do to so). However, men, warriors and hunters, they depended on maintenance of motor coordination, needed for battles and hunting.

Fundamental difference among original version of dance, the one performed these days is that they used stones for balls " The inhabitants of Maori, were decorating them with flowers, which would be very hard to set on fire because of their heavily inflammable nature. For us the whole fun starts at this point.

Through using special materials as glass fiber or Kevlar, flammable boosters like petroleum or paraffin ( by the reason of continuously jumping petroleum prices and, which is of more importance, its oppressive smell we use only paraffin) we attain burning endings and when a proper actuate is done they give spectacular effects. After certain time of practice and experimentations we have discovered proper matters, which when used give to the fire curious colors, or instead of burning around the dancer begin to sputter hundreds of sparks.

Also, as it has been eluded already, numerous training of fire dancing gives you better motor coordination and correction of skills. Besides that by first months you gain mass bruises (one way the other we are acclimated with that), and more rarely, incinerated seams or fast depilation. However, after a long time dancer stops fearing the fiery shell covering him from all sides and then the (We are not the followers of subtle anneal balls), dance becomes even more spectacular.

Currently Fire dancing is gaining more and more popularity. We can carry out an impression that sometimes the popularity is too big and in pubs on the handbills there is information about, another workshops or weekly shows performed by recently emerged groups.

There are also experienced groups like the theatre of fire which is able to carry on perfectly directed show, with mass presentation of techniques and configurations, which will surely evoke loud acclamation of joy instead of disgust. There is huge diversity in amount of techniques - grinding mill, butterfly, cross hands, as it is possible to dry them e.g. From internet, you can simply think off some moves of your own. That gives you a completely unlimited capability, which will aid your training (And it can aid your burns too).