Useful Links |
Advice and Construction:
Poi Spinning - a site offering a book packed full of poi tricks and info.
Poi Poi - check out their Tuition section for some excellent guides.
Art of Poi - for all you Germans out there, here's a guy in Germany offering a poi instruction book in German and English, as well as fireshows and workshops in poi.
Floating in Quiddity contains many useful links to other chain and baton twirling resources. There's also a great collection of stories for surviving hecklers.
Making Firedancing Apparatus by Adam Rice includes some good practical advice.
Performers and Performances:
Beltane Fire Society - based in Edinburgh, Scotland, they organise and perform the annual Beltane Fire Festival.
Burning Man - the site dedicated to this great festival.
The Cabiri - based in Seattle - wild theatre and performance art.
CircusOz - based in Melbourne, Australia. Circus Oz also run training courses.
Firedancing Jenny has some cool photos taken from her performances.
FireFlyDance - a New York City based company, teaching and performing and organizing aerial dance, circus art and fire manipulation.
Fireflys at Firechains.co.uk Performers based in the UK also offering poi workshops.
Fireworks Dance Company - based in Melbourne, Oz, they offer performances, workshops and equipment for sale.
Flam-Chen - based in Arizona, US.
Flaming Butterflies - this group have toured internationally and appear to be based in the UK and Australia.
Ignis Devoco Industrial Fire Circus, based in Seattle, US.
Jennifer Steele - America's sexiest pyro. Thanks to Fusion at Pyrosutra for this one ;-).
La Chambre Magique Monthly dance event on the south coast with fire poi and fire staffs, including photo gallery.
Primal Fire - performing groug based in Victoria, B.C., Canada.
Pyrophilia - based in Los Angeles, US.
Pyrosutra - a fire dancing troupe from Seattle, US.
SIFI Fire - The Art of Celebration. An Australian multi-disciplinary fire artist. An interesting take on things...
Thermogenesis - a friendly group based in Seattle, US.
Triptych - based in London, England. Triptych also run workshops on poi twirling.
Commercial Sites:
Bearclaw Manufacturing, based in California. Bigger, badder, brighter, better.
Enjoypoi, based in Oxford, U.K. A company who sell poi and other fire equipment, as well as giving demonstrations.
Firechains.co.uk - a site based in the UK, offering poi related gear for sale.
FireGear.com - based in the US, specialising in poi essentials.
Firetoys - based in the UK.
FlammaAeterna - fire equipment and supplies based in Arizona, US.
Glowballz - a company based in the Netherlands who are offering an exotic-looking and streamer-covered Indian version of poi for sale.
Home of Poi - based in New Zealand, they ship poi equipment internationally.
Luxotica - buy fire spinning supplies, including kevlar wick and firetoys. Based in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Poi Poi - a portal to plenty of Poi shops around the world.
Primal Fire - a variety of poi-related gear on sale, including poi, staff, glow-stuff, flags and more. Based in Victoria, B.C., Canada.
Renegade Juggling - based in California, US, stocking fire equipment as well as other juggling essentials.
And The Completely Unrelated:
Ring of Fire - some of the earths plate boundaries.
A Different Sort of Ring of Fire - Your gateway to spicy food information and products on the internet.
Photographing Fireworks - top tips from the Smithsonian photographers.
Sparky the Fire Dog - go Sparky, go!
Fire extinguisher training - always handy.
Bow drill firelighting. Regress. Find your primitive soul.
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