Disco Inferno

So The Crucible, one of the local arts education centers, had its annual Fire Arts Festival this weekend. While getting inside the gates was mad expensive, you could walk around the perimeter and still get a pretty good view of everything that was going on. There was a smörgåsbord of pyro-entertainment including a fire opera called "The Fire Odyssey" which The Crucible's website describes as "Blending industrial fire theatre with ballet, opera, hip hop, aerial dance, fire performance, and more....the Fire Odyssey brings together an amazing cast of dancers and performers to create an epic as Homer never imagined it." I'm sure he never did.

However, one of the most entertaining events of the evening was a version of Dance Dance Revolution called Dance Dance Immolation. This is a form of DDR where contestants are clad in fire proximity suits. This way, when they are blasted with jets of fire for making the wrong move, they don't turn into a pile of ash. Pretty fucking sweet. Especially for the audience.