These mesmerizing tricks blend ancient and modern movement-based disciplines in the rave scene, and beyond.
Welcome to the world of flow arts ...
Welcome to the world of flow arts ...
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00:00A lot of people use a prop to initially hide behind, but then it becomes a reason for them
00:15to be seen.
00:16There's a lot of traditional definitions where flow arts has meant individuals access
00:30the flow state, which would be namely a state where you kind of are doing something without
00:37thinking.
00:53Fire spinning tends to be a huge portion of flow arts, namely fire manipulation.
01:01I think the definition continuing to be sort of wide has enabled flow arts to bring more
01:06people in.
01:07I think it might seem easy when I think a lot of people really put a lot of time into
01:11their skill development.
01:12There's plenty of free tutorials on YouTube for any of these props you're ever interested
01:16in.
01:41I came from the Burning Man community.
01:43That's where I first found flow arts.
01:45Burning Man has a large fire conclave, basically a large group of fire spinners, organized
01:51of course, spin fire around the big man prior to its ignition.
01:58So in America, we started having these things called flow festivals.
02:01The flow arts culture has often been a workshop-based culture where people share a lot of knowledge
02:06at the event.
02:07There's different communities all over the world that are experiencing this movement
02:11differently.
02:22I think it can be very therapeutic for people to really reach that flow state.
02:27And for me, it's really therapeutic for me to technically advance my skills.
02:36I do think that there's a lot of stigma attached to it.
02:40There's lots of access points that aren't necessarily drug users or people at parties
02:47and raves.
02:48I'm almost 40, right?
02:49I've been doing this since I was 24, maybe even younger.
02:54One thing that has really been good for me is just seeing how it's improved me as a person.