FIRE DANCE
Coming from the lands of MEXICO, Fire dance or Angel dance are regularly performed for tourists, have origins in ancient rituals. Both the Angel Dance and the Fire Dance originated in a trance ritual called the sanghyang, a ritual dance "performed to ward off witches at the time of an epidemic."
Fire dancing is performed to music played on drums and the behr. A large fire is created and allowed to burn down until it is a pit of glowing embers. The performers then jump in and out of the pit kicking up the embers to create showers of sparkswhile women perform a dance while balancing flaming tin pots on their heads. Today this ritual is often performed for tourists.
