Having witnessed Poi spinning by friends during a camping trip to the beautiful beaches of Oman, Ciggie fell in love with the expressionism it created, and picked up a pair immediately upon his return home, and the rest as they say, is history.

Lauded by friends and strangers alike for his passionate and captivating flow, Ciggie has used spinning to express his love for music and life. With a unique flow style that focuses more on entertaining the audience with rhythmic and fluid movements, combined with crafty tech moves, you are assured to witness a show that you will never see elsewhere.

With a repertoire of spinning LED, Flag, Sock, and especially fire, and an enthusiastic, energetic, powerful and passionate stage presence, Ciggie will keep the crowds captivated, with a promise of keep them coming back for more!

Arwa is the Program Design Associate at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST). She has also founded the Agents of Innovation program, an exclusive apprenticeship for selected high potential students from partner universities.

Arwa also mentors a diverse portfolio of startups and students with a focus on education, content, and consumer-focused industries.

On the side of the above, Arwa writes short stories for kids, plays Badminton and Yoga, loves reading books, and is a remarkable MC.

Coven is female-led collective of professionally trained movement artists based in Dubai, performing fire and LED shows across the region.

With a range of world-class skills, unique styles and over 15 nationalities, Coven offers a combination of stylized group choreography shows and solo acts, in collaboration with artists of all calibers around the world.

We tell stories through choreographed performances that incorporate dance, martial arts and theatre. Being the first and only fire show performed at Expo2020, Coven Dubai is available for booking for private and public events alike, and ensures highest degrees of professionalism, safety and a magical show that will leave you and your guests in awe!

Im a multifaceted personality with a diverse cultural background, proficient in English, Zulu, Swahili and i dabble in Afrikaans.

My background is in sports television broadcasting. I've done a variety of shows including Kwese FIFA world cup, 2018 G-Sport Awards, Nedbank international Polo etc.

I've been the host of international German production called Eco Africa and featured on a Netflix mini-series Views from the Couch.

At the fiery heart of the South Africa’s entertainment industry is FireTribe, a FIRE PERFORMANCE troupe with over 16 years of professional experience creating beautiful fire dancing shows for all types of events. They are also the largest manufacturer of fire and flow equipment in Southern Africa and offer training in a variety of different disciplines.

Since introducing fire dancing to Cape Town's iconic beaches, FireTribe has performed hundreds of choreographed and freestyle shows at private and presidential residences, national monuments and at many prestigious wine farms, hotels, restaurants, resorts and casinos within Southern Africa.

They are long standing members of South Africa’s Wedding Industry and are honoured to say that their FIERY MAGIC has created innumerable, gorgeous memories (and photographs!) for newly-wed couples and their guests over the years.

FireTribe's FIRE PERFORMANCES are an exhilarating combination of skill and pyrotechnics and are fully customisable to suit your available space and budget. They also offer optional, more intimate experiences with the fire for newly-wed couples, lucky birthday boys and girls or whole groups of guests. Custom made 2D fire sculptures are also available on request for those who'd like to see their name or logo in giant, fiery lights.

FireTribe also offers LED or LIGHT PERFORMANCES that are an exquisite option for spaces where fire isn’t possible. These shows make use of state of the art LED equipment that is programmed in sync with the music and can display customisable images and colours within their graphic light trails.

FireTribe prides itself in being able to ADAPT TO SUIT THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF EVERY OCCASSION. They believe that ‘nothing is impossible’ and are always willing to go the extra mile to create something beautiful. Whether it’s collaborating with other artists and musicians, or designing one-of-a-kind costumes, we would love to hear your ideas!

FireTribe is not just a group of talented performers doing their own thing on stage but a team of dancers all focused on presenting their audience with a mesmerising and EXHILARATING VISUAL EXPERIENCE, both untamed and choreographed, a thing of beauty, a flame that will be remembered long after it has gone out.

4 years Fire poi experience, 3 Years Double Staff, 2 years Fire Fans and 1 year Dragon staff.

I have been performing professionally for a year now and have performed with some of South Africa's oldest and biggest Fire dancing companies such as Dreams of Fire, Fire Desire and Tandem Flame. I have done meet and greats, stage shows and pixel poi shows.

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Dubai-based Jason Pierre Renaud is a fire dancer. Founder of entertainment business Firestorm, the 36-year-old has been 'playing with fire' since 2005. From fire breathing to body burning (where he can draw a stick of fire along his arm with a completely poker face) and even fire eating ("it tastes like burnt marshmallows"), Jason is an entertainer with several fiery tricks up his sleeve. There is no fear in his performance, but don't mistake that for nonchalance - he is constantly alert for anything that could go wrong. "Fire is one of those elements you'll never be able to control," he says. "You can never get to that point where you think you're in control because that's when your hair goes up or you could lose an eyebrow - or a beard."

Despite the dangers of the craft, one senses an undertone of deep appreciation for the art form every time he speaks of it. It is this desire for self-expression that pushes him to keep exploring how he can better his performances, without getting burnt. Currently, he and his wife (they run the business together) are figuring out how to safely dance with large steel wings that have fire on the ends. "There's a lot of heat involved, so that's still a work in progress; we'd never introduce it at a show before we knew it was 100 per cent safe."

Jason's commitment to safety is evident in that he makes it very clear to clients that while he is deeply devoted to promoting the art, he would not hesitate to cancel a show in the event of a change in circumstances (like the weather) that might lead to compromising the team's safety. "We're not huge fans of risks," he says. "We've done a lot of shows that are high impact - but that's after days of preparation and practice, so that when we actually do the show, we know (in the case of indoor shows) just how high the ceiling is, where the exits are, where the A/C vents are, etc. It's the reason we're safe today and able to continue doing what we love."

Fire safety is of utmost importance for both the audience and performers. We at FireStorm take a number of precautions at each performance to ensure that the event runs smoothly. This includes the provision of a Fire Safety individual to assist the group with the equipment and any other precautionary measures during every fire performance. The Fire Safety is familiar with FireStorm and with all of our equipment, and is typically a member of our group. Because of the emphasis we place on safety during the performance, the Fire Safety individual is provided free of charge. Additional fire safety measures we adhere to including the following:

Firestorm is fully certified by Santis UAE in the use of Fire Safety

All of our fire performers are appropriately trained in the art of fire dancing and understand the risks involved in fire dancing and fire breathing.

Prior to the performance, we view the location and assess whether the amount of space, weather conditions and overall performance area is appropriate for fire dancing. If deemed unsafe, we either liaise with the event organisers to establish a more secure location, offer an LED performance as an alternative to fire or cancel our performance at the event. (Cancellation applies only if the weather conditions are unsafe and in consultation with the client).

We work with the event organisers to establish a location for our equipment and fuel; this location is well away from the crowd, with adequate distance from the stage.

In this area, we prepare our equipment by giving it a thorough check to ensure all parts are locked in and secure and that we have all of the necessary fire safety items (fire extinguisher, wet towels, fire blanket and first aid kit including burn spray) on hand in case of an incident.

We fuel our equipment by soaking the fire toys in the paraffin and ‘spinning off’ the excess fuel to ensure that little or no excess fuel comes off during the performance. By doing this, and by ensuring our performance space is adequate, the crowd is not affected.

At the end of the performance and depending on the length of the set, the fire dancers will either ‘spin out’ or put out the flame with the wet towel that is on hand. All equipment is re-checked for the next fire set, or if the performance is finished, the equipment is left to cool off and then packed up. Fuel is put back into the original storage units using a funnel and all equipment is accounted for.

Fire and light artist, traveled around to spread my passion for this ancient art.

Experience includes performing at music festivals and clubs in the UAE, Turkey, and India.

Reed is a multi-prop flow artist from Northern Caucasus, born and raised in The Middle East, and currently based in Dubai, UAE.

Her mesmerizing visual style is achieved through the masterful manipulation of Levi-wands and a multitude of LED and fire props.

Her training in dance, martial arts, and theatre, coupled with her magical looks and costumes, are sure to captivate audiences of all ages at every occasion.

She is the founder of the female-lead movement platform and performance troupe; Coven Dubai, which was the first and only Fire Show at Expo2020.

Sondos is a highly talented Emcee, based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Everyone’s a “Photographer”

I consider myself to be a memory keeper, of sorts. I love to journal, but especially, I love pictures. I consider myself a “picture freak”.

Pictures, to me, hold pieces of everyone’s past; they are something to be treasured. I love my grandparents pictures , my parents pictures, and my own growing up as a child of the(bad hair and all).

It was several years ago when I first started taking photo’s just with my point and shoot camera, that I noticed that there was something so much more out there with photography: there are pictures, and then there’s fine art photography. I was so jealous of every true professional photographers’ work. And that was when I decided I needed to learn more, and I bought my first DSLR and a decent lens.

A “decent” camera does not make a professional photographer

In the first 6 months with me and my DSLR, I nearly tore my hair out. I would compare my photos to professionals, and I could clearly see the huge gap between my work and theirs. How can I have the same camera and lens

and not get the same quality?

I read everything I could get my hands on, and I still do.

As I slowly started to improve, people started to say things like “oh you should go into business!” and that seemed like the logical next step to me. I own a decent camera, I’m starting to learn to the right way to use it: business time!

This is when I learned several extremely important lessons. I do not have a business mind. I don’t want to have a business mind. Photography as a business takes the fun away for me. I don’t handle the pressure of performing for other people well

I feel that I am simply not good enough, and I found myself being one of those “photographers” that wanted to have everything just right , which seemed to me that really I provide less than quality work And most importantly, I meant this as a hobby. I can keep it as just a hobby. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now I’ve realized that I can enjoy studying and appreciating true photographer’s work (like the 50+ truly professional photographer I follow) and feel zero competition. I can appreciate their work in an artistic sense, and also as a hobbyist who knows I’ve got a long way to go and isn’t completely ignorant of what it took for them to get where they are. And that makes me appreciate their work all the more.

I feel like I can buy things for myself, here and there- a new lens, actions, and so forth, because it’s my hobby, and it’s something I care deeply about. Like any hobby, you can put money into something without strings attached that you must recoup what you’ve spent. Why? The fun I’ve had learning, plus the learning I know I still have to go, makes the journey completely worth it.

So you love photography, too. Ask yourself, do you love photography or a photography business?

I’ll bet for many of us, the journey of learning, the fun of taking our camera everywhere we go, snapping those one in a million shots of our kids, and the newfound love for things we used to ignore like a beautiful sky or the gorgeous lighting that sunset offers, is more than enough.

I started prcticing the bubble show since 2015. I developed my tools by myself. I participated in many events and festivals in KSA & Bahrain. One of them Riyadh Season 2019 for three months.

Ready to paricipate inside or outside KSA whenever I’m free.

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