We at West Coast Juggling teamed up with Red Swan Entertainment for a Halloween fire performance on the Inferno Stage at Knotts Scary Farm (Knotts Berry Farm) in Los Angeles, CA. With crowds averaging 800 to 1,000 people per show, we had an incredible weekend! What a fantastic experience, sharing the stage with so many other skilled fire performers.
Devil Stix Dave has been joyfully spinning Fire since 2002. He is an insured fire dancer with advanced skills in Flower Sticks/Devil Sticks. Skills also include Nunchaku, Staff, Whip Chain, Meteor, Rope Dart & Buugeng. With a versatile style of performance that can easily & smoothly transfer speed and rhythm, he has enjoyed being a member of the fire performance troupe Controlled Burn for the last 7 years, and has been included in the Great Circle of Fire at Burning Man for the last 5 years. Performances also include: the City of Reno (Artown events), the Nevada Museum of Art, Knotts Berry Farms Halloween Haunt '09, Compression Fire Arts Festival (Reno '09) & The Village at Mammoth Ski Resort (New Years '09). He has a unique flow & energy that will be sure to ignite your next gathering with the passionate flames of fun and excitement.
Here's a bit of constructive criticism, nice stage although a bad performance, you NEED a planned routine. Your devil sticks are good but lacking in style and your bodily movements are too sporadic. It seems you all have skill but unless you learn to work together as a whole your just working against each other, unfortunately this performance shows that. Sorry I don't mean to be rude, I like your other work. Just a couple of tips from one performer to another, sometimes less is more.
dreadedjuggler 1 year ago
@dreadedjuggler Everyone is entitled to there own opinion my friend, I have to say that there were a few issues to that performance that you are obviously not aware of. First there was a VIP area to stage right that we were showing off for, two there were 4 shows a night and each was different. We choreographed the shows minutes before we went on and all of us were new to performing with each other. Three the stage was very slippery, you had to have very solid footing or you would slip.
burnonedown2day 1 year ago
@burnonedown2day The stage is 100 years old so we were only able to perform on a designated section that was covered in fire proof plastic that was caching humidity and making it very slippery. I would very much like to see some video of one of you performances so I can see what you are talking about.
burnonedown2day 1 year ago