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someone once told me what the official term for spinners/throwers etc. apparently it replaced the term 'circus skills', but i can't remember what it is - does anyone know? or for that matter, have an interesting idea for a name?
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i always just call myself a fire dancer or a fire performer
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I usually use the term Fire Arts to describe the general field. I refer to myself as a fire spinner or fire performer.
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quote:Thats fine if your spin fire, but it doesn't really cover everyone. Alot of spinners don't use fire at all. Hmmmm I seem to be calling us spinners...I think there is probably something out there better than spinner?!?!? !?!?
Originally posted by Royal:
I usually use the term Fire Arts to describe the general field. I refer to myself as a fire spinner or fire performer.
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you could just use the general term performance artist
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I think spinner works, but if you do fire, then I have heard most people refer to it as fire dancing. performance artist is just too bland, it does not really describe anything.
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Fire Dancer,
Fire Performer,
or
Fire Whore...
..depending on the day and person, of course
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Location: Seattle, WA
too bland? sounds more professional to me. N those of us promoting our troupes generally use something along the lines of performance artist working with fire(or as Pele would say I believe working within the medium of fire), because it denotes simply more than jumping on stage and spinning fire, but giving attention to choreography, story lines, other fire performance that dont involve spinning, costumes, sets, and use of other skills as well(acting, stilt walking, acrobatics, fight choreography in our case, juggling, the list goes on). There's a reason for everything neh
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Location: Cardiffy, Londony places
'Things that go POING in the night'...
maybe a little mouthful though...
what about...
dexterously gifted, rotationally inclined performers...
I dunno...
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I hate the term fire dancer...i don't dance with it...i spin it...
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i love dancing with it getting my body to move with the flame letting the flames lik my body as closely as i can get them... end up with lots of fringed hairs and lots of funnn... i do it for myself not for others i just love it thats the heat....
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I would say the term "fire-performer" covers it all very well...
within in the fire-performing you can do disciplines, like:
- fire spinning (or twirling), which in my opinion is the fast, ninja style/marshall arts style of spinning.
- fire dancing (my favourite in poi), a combination of graceful moves of the body and poi or staff, where the flow from one movement into the other is more important that the number of tricks you perform.
- contact staffing(my favourite in staff), where the staff is moved over the body, trying not to incorporate the grabbing of the staff.
- and some more (fire breathing).
so basically what I'm trying to say is that it depends upon what you do weather you're a dancer or a spinner, but the header would be fire performer.
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oh yeah, that's right!!!!
I have a performers license for the main square here and one of the other regular performers keeps shouting about us, that the audience should not pay attention to us, because we are "just hippies with a drum"!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Location: the state of flux, Ireland
I've heard us described as "M'n'E players"
The M'n'E stands for "manipulation and equilibria"
When I heard the term first though, I thought that it was going to be like S+M
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Location: Cardiffy, Londony places
But surely that would just confuse little children with sea anemonies?
"Look mummy: I see an M'n'E"
or am I just filled with sillinessness
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i usually say 'firetwirler'. then i have to explain myself. some people just have no idea!!
then when they think they have it, they ask if i use a firestaff/stick. and then i have to
explain what poi are.
and so the conversation goes on...
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And what would the collective noun be?
A cripple of beamers?
A twack of staffers?
A singe of fire dancers?
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"cripple of beamers" - I'm going to use that one for sure!
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I prefer calling myself a poier : o ) and the lot of spinning folk POIple...: o )
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
I can only speak from Melbourne culture that these arts/youse are by and large referred to as firetwirling/firetwirlers, and often accompanied by gasps
but it's a bit different here.. not only is it colder, but fire staff is more popular than it generally appears in most other places of fwiralage - so there is less emphasis on the term 'firespinning'.
let's make a law about it - hell there's alreay a law about me *requiring* me to wear pants when in public. pfft!
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