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the fear and delight of fire spinning | MIT Admissions

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do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

quick note: i did a TED talk with kano about fire spinning once, but we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days to prepare, and i shrivel from embarrassment every time someone mentions or finds it. so, i’m writing a very high effort blog about fire spinning to redeem myself and wipe that talk from my memory. when afterthoughts burn and the day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul. Once upon a time… I joined MIT Spinning Arts when I was a freshman, and since then I have spun countless props on fire, danced and performed with it, gotten…

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