More Like Dancing

My first year at Burningman, I was entranced by the hundreds of poi spinners performing every night.

By my third, I was getting a little tired of them.

The standard vocabulary of poi movies is limited, and after seeing a few dozen people spin fire, you won't often see anything technically surprising anymore. Exotic fire spinning implements can extend the novelty a fair bit, but that too has its limits.

I think it was at Firefly (a small New England Burningman spinoff) that I learned the next l...