Fire Dancer Busking In Kaohsiung


In the early evening, I sat at the outside tables of Craft - Hotel Indigo's ground floor watering hole.
This is a nice corner to sit-around and relax, watching Kaohsiung's hectic urbanity go by deep into the warm and humid night. The night-market hunters - tourists and locals alike - have started trickling-in!

This is where most of them pass-by from the MRT's Central Park Station on Zhongshan 1st Rd, going to the inner streets, that has hundreds of stores, stalls and hawkers, selling from anything to everything!

Indigo Hotel puts that barricade on the sidewalk (made of tarpaulin-ads), so passers-by don't walk by their tables (that are on the side walk)! But busy as it is, why are these kids in the middle of the road?
So I went near them to ask (ayan na nag-atreber nanaman ang atrevida)! I learned from the kids, that they've just finished setting up (sounds and all), and were now to start their busking performance. Da!


Of course I zipped my mouth and started moving towards front where the performers face hahaha!
Buskers nga, but it's a fire dance show, in the middle of a busy street intersection. Na-excite ako ha?!

Look at those tables and chairs at right (near the car), that's where I came from, I left my beer there!
And I said "aba magaling... mahusay ang batang ito"! Their first performance was to a slow music, very different to what we often see in Boracay, Bantayan or Bohol where fire dancers writhe and wriggle to frenzied usually-Brazilian rhythms. Napilitan ako maghulog din ng pera dyan sa "donation vase" nila!

Vase talaga? Oh eh... titigan mo, ano ba yan? Hindi box yan, mukhang masetera ng lola nya!

Anyway, I'll put a video clip here soon. Ah, eto luto na pala:

During a break in their performances, I got to ask them a few questions and that dancer informed me, that his trainers/coaches (whom he still corresponds with) are actually fire dancers at Cebu & Bohol.

Da! Bow dayon mga higala!
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