Fire dancing captivates that “realm of consciousness beyond ego and ambition where the mind becomes a silver minnow in a great electric lake of soul and where the quarks and the gods pick up their mail on the way from nowhere to everywhere…” Tom Robbins.

It was a dark night years ago on the hilly back streets of Asheville, North Carolina that Leah and Chloe first came to understand the prowess of the art of fire and from that moment on they were awe-struck, smitten, and determined to acquire such twirling techniques. They each spent many hours accosting themselves with bruises on arms and shoulders, practicing with tennis balls in front of mirrors in living rooms around the world. Leah carried her ambitions on to the Big Island of Hawaii with local Polynesian dancers and tropical dance studios on the fiery Island of Pele herself. Chloe acquired many a trick traveling throughout Guatemala and Southern Mexico satiated with the flaming lust of Latin America.

Leah and Chloe currently do small scale fire performances at festivals, parties, street fairs, and other celebratory events. This undividable dynamic duo contains a number of different techniques ranging from double poi arrangements to staff and fire eating. They are prone to dance with as many live musicians as can be found on the premises and travel with a multitalented kalymba player and occasional stilt walker, although each performance varies, and they will often carry the torch just as two


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