Every fall
semester around Halloween Fire Arts puts on the Danced of the Damned, our big
fall show. This year’s theme was Satan’s Circus. It went great! We have a bunch of new members who only
joined this semester and everyone did a really good job with their
numbers. We had hypnotists, jugglers,
acrobats, snake charmers, clowns, demons, and a peanut vendor among
others. There was quite an audience the
first night, it was over 100 (probably around 120), and the second night had
about 60 people.
We had been
preparing for this show since mid-September and it was great to see it come out
so well. I was in two of the numbers:
the intro to get everyone’s attention and later I tortured a damned soul with my
rope dart. (Really, I threw a ball of
fire close to her face and she fell over as if she’d been hit.) It took a lot of practice, but I think it was
worthwhile.
Our shows
are usually planned by picking a theme and then all our members choose an idea
related to that theme that they want to pursue.
The different numbers are then stitched together in a way that makes
sense. We decided that since it was our
Halloween show we wanted to do an evil circus theme. From there it developed into Satan’s circus
in which he tortures his damned souls.
Here’s the
lineup:
An intro to
get everyone’s attention (a “Pink Elephants On Parade” remix)
Satan’s
dance with demon backup dancers (“I’m the Bad Guy”)
An evil
clown attacks a damned soul (“That Laughing Track”)
An acrobatic
Succubus (“Seven Devils”)
A hypnotist
(“Sacred Somnom Woods”)
The fight
between the hypnotized victim and a demon (“Adventure’s End”)
A peanut
vendor from a circus in New York accidentally wanders into hell and is made to
perform (“Take It Off”)
Some demons
decide they like the peanut vendor and have her join them (a “highway to Hell”
edit)
My torturing
of a damned soul (“Gods and Monsters”)
A juggling
act (“The Jitters”)
A martial
artist (“Evil”)
A famous knife
thrower who has now swapped to the more satisfying hobby of just stabbing
people (“Father of Victory March”)
Satan’s
goodnight (“Blood on My Name”)
Do you have
any questions? Please email me at ameliaberle@lclark.edu