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Spinning fire dancers of Udaipur perform traditional dance. Fire dancer with poi. Fire performance is a group of performance arts or skills that involve the manipulation of fire. Fire performance typically involves equipment or other objects made with one or more wicks which are designed to sustain a large enough flame to create a visual effect.
Sanghyang is a sacred pre-Hindu dance from Bali which aims to ward off evil. Sanghyang is a dance of spiritual communication between humans and the supernatural by singing songs of praise to the accompaniment of beats. In this dance there are always three important elements; api (fire), gending sanghyang, [definition needed] and dancers.
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Poi artists may also sing or dance while swinging their poi. Poi can be made from various materials with different handles, weights, and effects (such as fire). Poi originated with the Māori people of New Zealand , where it is still practised today.
Freddie Letuli, (April 30, 1919 as Uluao Letuli Misilagi in the village of Nuʻuuli in American Samoa – 2003), originated the fire knife dance in 1946 at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, previously dancing in Hawaii and Los Angeles with two knives. Along with performing, Freddie was also the teacher to the early fire knife dancers.
A Fire Dancer of the Baining people, with kavat bark cloth mask. The best-known aspect of Baining artistic culture are night dance ceremonies, often called "fire dances", during which the dancers run through, leap over and kick the embers of a fire.
The Fire of Anatolia or Anadolu Ateşi is a Turkish dance group consisting of 120 dancers, several choreographers and other technical staff. The group has performed in more than 85 countries from the United States to China and Japan, in front of an audience of approximately 20 million people altogether. [ 1 ]
Kecak dancers chant facing the dancer playing as Ravana. The dancers consist of two types: the kecak male-chanters and the main Ramayana dancers who play the roles of Sita, Rama, Lakshmana, Ravana, Hanuman, Jatayu, etc. Some of the kecak male-chanters who chant chak-chak-chak have their own tasks during the performance.