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Anyway, I was thinking about a name for a Fire Performance pair. We're not really a troupe, because there is going to be between 2-5 of us. We could use a name, and for reference, these are off-limits:

The Ash Circle
Cult du feu
Dragonfire
Fire Works Dance Co.
Fireworks
Thermogenesis
Cabiri
PyroSutra
Pyrotica
Pyrotechnique
Cirque Du Flambe
FireFlies
Fireflys
Fuego Boys
Fuego Girls
Fire Fairies
Pheonix Tribe
Pheonix Society
Dragon Tribe
Belly of the Dragon
Circ de Fuego
Pyromorph
Wick Effect
Thermal Echo
Fire at Random
The Flaming Butterflies
Memory and Dreams
Fireweavers
Luna Flare
Earthdream
Anthelion
Centrifugal Burn
Burn!
Firestorm
Flamethrowers
GotFire?
Midnight Sun
Esoterotica
Orbital Bliss
Pyrogeist
Flam Chen
DEATH GUILD
THE FLAMING PUSSIES
The Third Degree
Ignis Devoco
Firetribe
Thermotrance

I was thinking "Promethean Gift" or possibly "Flame Kin". I am completely open to any suggestions for nifty names, and also notice of any more names that are currently in use, and should be avoided. "Solar Fire" was another one...

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After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK

well this is us, The Suitcase Circus.

3 person circus, all girls, 2 sisters (myself and Ilsanya) and one close friend (Raro) who is practically family as she basically lives at our house we do street theatre shows mainly, busking at events or we get hired. brings in the cash though

originally it was just Ilsanya and i, and we were just a fire twirling act. back the we were called Stella Urwa (elvish for Sisters of Fire) but then we became more of a circus doing contortion, acrobalance and other cool stuff and we got our wonderful new member so we became The Suitcase Circus. we chose this name mainly becasue all our gear we carry around in suitcases, and at the start of our show Critt (our other member) comes out of the suitcase.

recently we have discovered that there are in fact other Suitcase Circus' and also Circus in a Suitcase. fortunately i dont think they are based in Australia so we are fairly safe...

well i think i stopped making sense a while ago, but i hope you come up with a name. one way we thought of to get a name was to put lots of words that we felt were relevant (or not ) and put then in a hat, then drew them out. we came up with some interesting combinations but settled on The Suitcase Circus instead.

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solar
nocturnal sunshine
carnival of the divine imagination

Holistic Spinner (I hope)

PYROTATION

is offically off limits to everyone in the WORLD!!!!

its my group of friends who spin casually every tuesday at parliment house lawns in hobart and do occasional gigs. one of the groups little brothers made it up a year or two ago, and since then we've made some t-shirts . there are about 10 of us in the group but its very rare that we're all together for a spin or a show.

so, fear PYROTATION, for tis a wikid name (we think its the best )

"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"

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Dont forget: Pyroflow, Carpe Ignem, and of course, Flame Oz.

Oh, and United Chains of Fire is taken too



Thats the only one's I could think of from the top of my head

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Ahem.

Me too

Ok, so FirePoise seems a bit unimaginative... but, we're dancers (poise etc, le sigh) and noone in this country has seen poi before... so it's good for the clients too.

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"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"

jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley

Its possibly a good idea to not pay attention to Lemonkey... I did once, and we both got into a lot of trouble for it.

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."

Just remembered... Pyraddickted

Booya!

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."

Is everyone forgetting Burnt Toast?

I think the idea of having a name in another language is a good one...



Also sometimes has more of a ring to it, and is a bit more memorable than a play on words that you just made up (kinda like the one above )

Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.

Shaddap.

We got us a gig in september, biatch.

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."

after trading briefly under a few names, ive now settled in with someone i know as 'phoenix entertainment'

there are two of us, though we bring in extras if we need it for the gig.

we do any combination of fire spinning, fire eating, juggling, acro, magic, escapology, statueing and freak stuff and have performed on large stages, on the street, small stages, doing walkaround etc.

cheers, pete

"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"

*proud owner of the very cute fire_spinning_angel, birgit and neon shaolin*

Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK

"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"

jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley

"I'll carry this....It's harder to spill a hat" - Chellybean
"...like a rabbit caught in a lighthouse?" - Chellybean

pyrotation has heaps of imagination!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what about a person that always uses the same 4 letters for their name, you do realise there are 22 other letters you could use!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"

jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley

"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"

jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley

Does it really matter?

Performance group names aren't for the benefit of other spinners after all - surely they're for random non-spinnery clients?

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