![]() ![]() This was a really long time ago,” remembers Sequoia. I used tennis balls and braided my own cord, and started just trying to mimic the moves. I didn’t know what it was called so I decided to construct my own pair of what I saw. “I kind of let it go, and at some point, I decided that something in me just wanted to explore that. In the United States, poi wasn’t popularized until the ‘90s when it became a thing at raves, nightclubs, beaches and parties.įollowing her first contact with poi dancing, some time passed before Sequoia reconnected with the art form. “Poi” means ball on a string in the Maori language, and they were initially used in training for hunting and battle. It spread like wildfire over a 4,000 square mile area throughout Polynesia. It is believed that poi and fire dancing originated amongst the Maori people of New Zealand. I didn’t know what it was and just got sort of mesmerized by it.” I remember all these women and colorful things flying everywhere. There were a lot of people and there was a drum circle and they had colorful poi. Sacred Fire’s founder, “Sequoia” Jennifer Criteser, recollects, “I had seen many years ago in San Francisco a group of people in Golden Gate Park spinning poi. If you’ve been to the California State Fair in the evening recently, you may have seen Sacred Fire, a local dance company that features fire dance performance and is impossible to ignore. ![]() And so it goes with the artistic wielding of flame in the form of dance and performance art. No matter who you are or where you come from, fire is hypnotizing. ![]()
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