Fire Shows

Originating in New Zealand and Hawaii Poi and Moi Poi has become a popular activity across the world. Poi and staff provide a base for some stunning performance pieces. From fast and furious speeds to hypnotic repetitive motions capable of taking your breath away or almost hypnotising an audience. The primal enchanting magic of fire brings an extra element to this spectacle.

If you are organising a special event I can tailor the show to your requirements, using music of your choice. Creating fire sculpures and even colouring the fire (red, purple, blue or green) to tailor our show to your event, we also use sparklers and use wire wool to create huge patterns of sparks (If I feel the venue is unsafe or unsuitable for fire I will not perform). If you wish to have a bigger show I can arrange any number of performers and tailor the performance to meet your needs. I am covered by public liability insurance for damages up to £2,000,000 and have a CRB check please ask in advance for copys or to see these documents..

With over ten years of professional performance experience I've performed at events all over the country for such ilustrious clients such as her grace the Duchess of Northumbria and Channel 5. I've had the privilege and pleasure to work with some truly inspirational performers among them: Fairy Fire, Dream State Circus, Lunatricks, Celtic Fire, Lets Circus, Performers without borders, Tepooka,Theatre Elementals, Charlie 'Burns' Carpenter and The Invisible Circus.

Prior Performances
Selected festivals, events and club nights

 

 

Beamish museum. Georgan Fare, Victoran christmas, and Halloween 2005-2010 Stepping back in time in to Georgan or victorian England, fire shows, stiltwalking and Jestering. Huge fun and great responce from the folk enjoying the museums special events.

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Archiolink Inch Scotland 2007-2010. Beltain and Samhain leather craft and circus workshops and fire performances in iron age celtic scotland.

Hebcelt festival 2009-2011 From Alice in wonderland to a Firey king varous different walkabout characters and fire performance to entertain festival goers.

Geilo Ice Music Festival Norway 2007-2009. Fire shows to erie music played on instuments made of ice. Magical and ever changing the music reacts to the environment around it . Watched over by the beautiful full moon we performed for the festivals climax.

Newcastle Green Festival, May 2003-2009 @Leazes and Exhibition parks. Based on the elements we devised a piece with a live band, video projections and pixie like costumes (latex pixie ears, horns body painting, latex and other materials). Blue glow poi was used for water creating a wave like motion passing a ripple along a line of performers. The element of air was created with flags, staffs with flags attached and a huge staff with ribbons which could be snapped to represent a storm and lightning. The element of fire was created using fire fingers, fire poi and a disco ball backed up by cheesy music and a comic sexy dance number. For a climax we lit a fire sculpture and pulled out all the stops with fire staffs, poi, fire eating and Fire Breathing, double glow staffs fire juggling, double fire poi, fire ropes. With internationally acclaimed fire performers and beautiful fire sculptures these shows were one's to remember. Members of Theatre Elementals were joined by Sophie and Jacob of Fairy Fire and the flames grew and flickered as they danced.

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Urban Faries recycling walkabout, fully recycled costumes and the ,Recycle' bike powered recycling centre.

Wickerman Festival 21st July 2006. Fire shows before the burning of the wicker man and boy.

Fire show for the burning of the man

 

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Knockengorroch festival 2006-2010. Communitiy fire performances as well as design and creation of a kinetic fire sculpure with great help from Tapooka and Steve Mischief.

Fire Toys Festival, June 2005 @ Berry saint Edmunds Running Arts and circus workshops as well as performing in the fiery finale.

Solfest 2005 @ Workshops and walkabout performances.

 

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Buddhafield Festival 2002-2006 @ Wellington, Summerset.
With help from Trickswap I set up the childrens fire shows, co-ordinating and running poi workshops and helping to create shows with Majical Youth arts project, Festival organiser, Suzy Cohen and the rest of the Tween-ages crew.
http://www.buddhafield.com/ with pictures of last years fire show at http://www.buddhafield.com/PhotoGallery2002.html

Beautiful Daze Aug 19-22, 2004 @ Escort Estate, Exeter.
The Levellers festival. One of the best new festivals in the country, working as part of the Majical Youth team leading circus skills workshops, as well as co-ordernating safe fire workshops for the children and fire performance in the evenings.

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Chapel Allerton festival Sept 4th 2004 @ Chapel Allenton. Solo fire performance and balloon modelling.

Chopwell Woods Festival July 10, 2004 @ Chopwell. A wood craft based festival with Irish music and lumberjacks, performing with two other members of Theatre Elementals and a live band.

The Blacksmith 21 December 2003 @ Leazers park. A loose rewrite of Erick the Viking with shadow
puppets, live band and actors, written and narrated by Scott Tyrrell, award winning poet and member of the Poetry Vandals. www.poetryvandals.co.uk This story had it all: an evil king, a shining hero, his love, devils and a dragon.

The Big Green Gathering @Chedder 2002. Fire dancing as part of a larger performance.

Prognosis @ Newfield. 2002 A beautiful venue for a riverside fire display. Fire slack rope walking and a unicycle with peddles of fire jumping over an audience member were just a couple of the highlights of this show. Which we finished by walking into the river and letting the fire reflect in it while we danced, finally dipping our poi in unison to huge applause.

 

Selected Club Nights

The Happenings 2006 a Female fest @ Newcastle Uni. Drag stilt character with a shadow puppet theater under the dress.

Freshers Fair Sept 2004/5/6@ Newcastle Uni. Stilts, New fire sword fight routine. Poi contact juggling breathing eating and playing with fire.

Freaky Dancing 2003/4/5/6 @ Newcastle Student Union and Cosmic Ballrooms. Fire performance, Stiltwalking, Walkabout at various themed events.

The Happenings Sat 23rd Oct.2004 @ Newcastle Uni. Fire sword fights, stilt walking, acrobatics and choreographed fire routines.

Masquerade Ball for Newcastle University Psychology Department. Sat 2nd Oct 2004, @ Castle Keep. Walkabout, Table magic and burlesque entertainment in a Medieval style. Rooftop fire show.

The Mission. Sat 11th Sept 2004 @ Edinburgh. Performed a fetish style indoor fire show with Gareth Davies. Fire swords, staffs, poi, ropes, balloons, eating and magic.

Nonsense Night 2 Sat 18th of Sept 2004. @ Brudenell. New costumes, UV Glow show, Mirror body armour, Balloons, Mad Dentist, Clockwork Orange and UV Moth walkabout. Dagger though tongue, Fire Eating, Fire Show and much much more.

 

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The Happenings Sat 24th April 2004@ The Castle Keep. Newcastle. Fire performance on top of the Castle Keep against the backdrop of the city's nightscape.

Digital soul 2003 @ Newcastle Arts Centre and at Satellite. Both indoor glow performances.

Billy Nasty 2003 @ Newcastle Student Union. Dancing onstage while Billy Nasty performed, we created a specific dance piece and one off costumes specially for the event using latex, body paint and prosthetics, creating magical pixie characters.

Arcane 2003@ Newcastle Student Union (Circus themed night) entertaining the crowds with a fire show while they waited to enter general indoor clowning, balloon modelling and magic.

The opening of Pharmacy 2002 @ Foundation. Entertaining the crowds while they waited to enter.

Selected Private Events

 

BBC Blast 2006 @ Exhibition park Newcastle. Circus workshops and theater inprove workshop with groups of young people for the blast event Newcastle.

Chelsea sensory Garden Opening for Northumberland county Blind Association @ NCBA Reiver House, Morpeth. 6th November. "Fiery launch for town's medal-winning miniature tribute to famous botanist Morpeth's award-winning garden officially opened on Saturday with a flurry of Northumbrian fire, dance and pipe song. The Duchess of Northumberland, joined by Mayor of Castle Morpeth, Coun Mrs Kay Morris, and the Count's Lord Lieutenant Sir John Riddell, cut the tape on the mini-Turner garden at its new home at the town's riverside. Flanked by fire-eaters, flame dancers, jesters, pipe players and 16th century folk, her Grace described the garden as a 'wonderful place'." The Morpeth Herald Thursday, November 11, 2004 (pg. 8)

 

River Festival 2006/5 @ Cliffe Park, Seaburn. Fire shows and stiltwalking.

Tall ships 2006 @ Newcastle quayside. Stiltwalking walkabout.

Sunderland Mela 11th June 2006 @ Cliffe Park, Seaburn. Fire shows and stiltwalking

Refugee event 2006 @winter gardens sunderland. Fire show and stilt walking

Big promotons Football focus filmed for a new Channel 5 sports show 2005 @ Angel of the North. Entertaining 250 children over the course of filming, working with together with Bo the Clown (see links)

Paul's Bouncy Bash. Sat 13th Nov 2003/4. @ Falls Wooler. Entertaining entertainers, promoters and locals at this end of season party.

Gala Bingo Superdraw's 13th Birthday Party sat 16th Oct 2004 @ Gala Bingo, Pallion road, Sunderland. Balloon modelling and entertainment for the clientele

 

Vanessa Ord's 50th Birthday Celebrations Sat 15th April @ Hunwick. Crook. With flags and decorations in the garden to make a beautiful back drop. I performed a show with music tailored to the members of the house.

Wear dale Agricultural Show Aug 28th 2004 @ Saint Johns Church, Wear dale. Solo fire shows.

The Wedding of Jacob and Sophie Jan 3rd 2004 @ Hippies Bar, Kho Phi Phi Island Thailand. A truly magical time on a fairy tail island, I felt privileged to perform with the invisible circus for such fantastic people and to be part of their special event.

Stanhope Christmas Market December 2003 @ Stanhope. Performing a improvised street theatre piece with Kitt Jackson. Solo Fire Show.

Yes 2003 @Durham Market place. Performed with Jacky Scollen, of Theatre Elementals to promote the yes vote for a Northern Regional Assembly.

Etal fun weekend 2003 @ Etal. I performed several solo fire shows over the weekend and was interviewed on border radio.

The Wedding of Nadia and Guy Linkleter 2003 @ Seaham Hall. Tailoring a 30 minute show to entertain the wedding guests, especially the bride and groom who had watched fire dancing while on holiday in Thai land.

Louie Jackson's Birthday Party 2003 @ Bishop Auckland. Performing a balloon and fire show with Charlie Carpenter for Lou and his friends was a fantastic experience as Louie's friend who only has the control of one hand added sound effects to our show with his chair bound computer's voice effects unit the best bravo I have ever received.

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