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-Fire is primordial, right?

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It's part of all human life.

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It's where we've gathered
around for all of human time.

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There's something about it that
just feels really thrilling

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and elemental to be part of.

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So we're here at Volunteer Park.

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We're hosting our
Community Fire Jam,

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which is a monthly
summertime event produced

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by the Seattle Flow
Arts Collective.

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♪♪

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Seattle Flow Arts.

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So we were founded
officially in 2020.

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We're part of a really broad
collective of flow artists

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and fire dancers who've been
in the city for decades.

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And we realized that we
needed to have some more

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serious infrastructure
to grow our community

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in a way that we didn't
think we would be able to do

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if we were just a scrappy
band of loose artists.

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♪♪

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You can really start from
nowhere and nothing.

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If you can hold an object
and move your hand,

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you can do it.

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Of course, there is
progressively more

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advanced technique.

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You're basically building
increasingly complex patterns

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together to create something
that is effervescent

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and sort of greater than
the sum of its parts.

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Something that
people don't expect

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when they light up
for the first time

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is the sound of the fire.

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It really brings you
present in the moment.

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[flames crackling]

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So it's one of the things that
brings me most into my body

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and present with what I'm doing
with the people around me.

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[flames crackling]

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People sometimes get burned.

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It's part of the thing.

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If you play with fire,
you're going to get burned.

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They say that for a reason.

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♪♪

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When people watch us perform,
what I most want is for

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them to feel inspired.

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I remember the very first time
that I saw people spinning

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fire and I was like, wow.

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I don't know that I could
ever do anything like that.

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But then I did.

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Learning something new and
really pushing past those

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boundaries of discomfort,
it made me realize that

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I could do anything.

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♪♪