Friday, October 31, 2008

Back home in Tallinn.



31. October at 00.00 and at 01.00
Klondaik club, Halloween party.









26.October at 15.00
Performance at the biggest stage in Estonia - Saku Suurhall.
Opening ceremony for the finals of big international Budo competition.
Tv cameras, big screens, lots of people....very big stage and finally no problems with space .)




25. October 01.00 at night.
Alien club
Just like before, a night of Fire Angel...




10. October 21.00
Birthday party at Unique Stay Hotel
lots of balloons...they all broke when my fire got close...a special effect of a sort.... .)

Back from Spain

Trip to Lloret de Mar, Spain ( 22.September - 07.October)
To the 9th yearly international stage arts festival - Buen Viaje 2008.

We - small group from Estonia, brought back second prize medal.

It was echoed in numerous news papers and journals in Estonia. For example - "Just", "Referend", "Den' za dnjom", "Lasnamäe leht" etc.
Also on channel 2 news - "Reporter" and a longer interview with our manager on channel STS.


I thank FireCat for his help.



This is how our medal looks like .)

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Back in Estonia:

Currently preparing for the trip to Spain, preparing a new fire dance specially for the competition.....

5. September
A bigger performance on the end of summer celebration in Mustla. Same people who invited me for the same event last yearl, then my fire show was a warm up for Dj Sash(Germany), this time it was the surprise of the evening and also a warm up for DJ Puffendorff (Germany).
Big stage, lots of cameras, projections on the big screen...everything was great and my two assistants did a little solo and a little duet for me as well! Everything went great.

30. August
We did a 20 min straight show in Kaiu a small place celebrated its 15th birthday, one of my assistants did his own small introduction solo for the first time there. And how proud I am of my student .)
Even though most of the show we did under the rain, no one left and everyone really enjoyed the show.

23. August
Big wedding in the "Winter garden" in Viimsi. I prepared a new gypsy fire dance called "Roumania" specially for the wedding.

15. August
Shooting the dance at Kanal 2 studio, for the talent show.... soon to be on Estonian tv.
Specially for that I prepared a short theatrical fire dance called "The War".
Luleå Kalas!!! ---31.07.08. - 02.08.08.---

Three day festival job on the biggest summer festival in the North Sweden with lots and lots of participants, singers, dj-s, events and activities for almost 24 hours a day. Side by side with other artists like Alcazar, Andrea Johansson, E-type, Lars Winnerbäck, Millencolin, Nordman and otehrs.
Our schedule looked like that:
from 10.00 to 13.00 - open circus school for kids in the park
from 14.00 to 18.00 - improvisation spontaneous shows on the streets
and in the evening about 23.00 - fire show

There was lots of interviews and pictures of us, also interview for the Swedish channel 4 news program. Sadly I didn't have enough time there to collect the papers, but I have found some internet posted interviews and articles.



First article is from http://www.nsd.se/noje/artikel.aspx?ArticleId=3880275
The picture is from www.kalaset.se, Me and Matte are on the pic, it's from one of the mornings in the park with children.
There are also other articles on http://www.kuriren.nu/nyheter/artikel.aspx?articleid=4021415
http://www.alltforbarn.se/article.php?id=3066
http://www.pitea-tidningen.se/noje/artikel.aspx?ArticleId=3878357



Couple of pix from there:


1. Matte's hands were so broken from playing drums for many hours non stop.
2. Hiding from the rain under the table, last morning in the park.
3. Erik with my yellow ribbon on the stilts !!!


1. Definitely the poster could be better made...but, oh well...
2. Me and Emmy ready for the evening fire show...
3. Our matching outfits for the show.



That's roughly about how tired we all were there, and that was just the first day .)

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Advertisement of Ember that came out in July of this year.


(Danne is doing his hand stand against the post, Emmy sitting and juggling next to him, on the smaller pics in the corner, I am doing fire finger, Emmy juggling and little Henke with his diabolo)
In the beginning of the summer we went to the park and put up some of our stuff, like the slack line, did some pois and acrobatics. The head of culture of Umea Fredrik Lindgren joined in with us for a while. Since then Ember had arranged little activities in the park every sunday all summer.



(I am standing on the background with ConstantDark)
26.July Club Alien, Tallinn.
An evening called "Margarita Fire show"!!!

The poster from www.fanartists.ee
that they used that night.

Standing next to the poster of me... :)


25. July at 19.00 show in Maardu, Tallinn for students
Went well, it's always fun to do shows for children and young people.
25. July at 22.45 performance at the Glen's Castle (Gleeni Loss), Tallinn
A big wedding, my dance finished by a big firework, it was a perfect fit :)