Fire Poi in Cape Town South Africa
Isa Isaacs is the founder of Temple of poi fire dancing school, and is well known as one of the original and best fire poi dancers. Take a look at some of her videos below, they are old, but even back then, she was making it look awesome!
Here is one of her performances from 2008:
Here is another even older one from 2007:
I am a huge Glitter Girl fan, she rocks!
I finally got a chance to break in my new medium sized cathedral fire poi from Home of Poi last night when I was invited to a fire night by Arise and Hoop, where they light up a variety of fire toys every week.
I have been eager to give these poi a spin and I must say that was not disappointed at all.
These are really solid poi, they are quite large for medium sized poi, and have a long burn time because they can absorb so much fuel, which also makes them quite heavy at first. They also come with a strong ball chain as opposed to a flat chain, and leather finger loops.
Thomas Nevisoul is a poi legend, I love watching his videos because his movement is always to graceful but at the same time perfectly executed. I really like this video of him performing at the Kiev Fire fest (Ukraine) in 2009, its an old video but I think its cool so I though I would share it here 🙂
What do you think? Pretty slick hey? 🙂
The Psychedelic Theatre was born in 2010 in one of the world’s largest Psy Trance music scenes. The Psychedelic Theatre is the brain child of dancer, physical theatre performer, fire dancer and actress, Lanél Van Der Kolff, and actor, fire dancer, and poi artist, Marvin-Lee Beukes.
They burn Poi, Hula-hoops, Rhythm Sticks, Swords, Ropes, Staff and breath fire too.
G is a world renowned poi master and poi teacher, and has worked a lot with Nick Woolsey from playpoi.com
He has studied Poi as a movement art since 2003, and possesses a unique ability to apply his knowledge and understanding of object manipulation to a variety of arts such as staff, contact juggling, whips and an array of juggling props, some not quite intended for this purpose. [Read more…]
If you have been doing fire poi for a while, and are part of one of many poi communities in South Africa, then you would have heard of or met Jaco le Roux. Jaco is one of South Africa’s very own poi masters, he travels around the country teaching poi workshops and entertaining as he goes, and is currently based in Durban.
The first poi workshop I went to was one run by Jaco in Stellenbosch, and was hosted by Marvin and Lanel from the Psychedelic Theatre company. [Read more…]
I have been watching quite a few of Michael Parisi’s videos lately, I love his style, loads of plane changes and body tracers. Check out this video of his which is my favourite right now:
If you like this, I highly recommend subscribing to Michael’s youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/ParisiFire
I found an awesome video of Ivan Gorbunov AKA ‘Mel’ from the Ukraine doing some freestyle fire poi at the Live Fires Festival. How sick is this video?!
So what do you think?
