Fire Dancers

Fire performance is a group of performance arts or disciplines that involve manipulation of objects on fire.Fire performance includes skills which are based on juggling, baton twirling and poi swinging and other forms of object manipulation. It also includes skills such as fire breathing, fire eating and body burning; sometimes called fakir skills.Performances can be done as choreographed routines to music (this type being related to dance or rhythmic gymnastics); as freestyle (performed to music or not) performances; or performed with vocal interaction with the audience. Fire performance, or at least some of the skills that form part of it, has been a traditional part of cultures from around the world.