South of the Border with Serge Becker

The Blue Angel Cabaret on Walker Street didn't just jumpstart the modern burlesque revival back in 94 when Drew Barrymore used to strip and make a scandal of herself and all concerned. It also produced professional operations from many of it's performers and definitely of much of it's clientele. Serge Becker used to revel in it's excesses where Flambeaux headlined with his partner Lilah. This was also where his fire headdresses appeared to mimic the tribal culture of the underground 90s.
Becker whisked Flambeaux off to Bowery Bar and Grill, Joe's Pub and the Box. Now, 2 decades later, Becker has opened 'Bodega Negra' - a boutique Mexican Restaurant geared more towards raucous fun than to authenticity, at 16th Street's fashionable 'Dream Hotel' (launched with FF shows in 2009)
Think 'Dawn-to-Dusk' Mexico. Hot vampire girls and Herradura Tequila and all.
Says Becker to Flambeaux....."Set the place on fire Flammie.....safely!"

'Flammie' went straight for the new FF-girl team and snatched up Paula Kaiser (ex-P Cult), back from Brazil, with Natalie Hope to form the fun team for the A-list excess crowd of celebs that cram into Bodega Negra on Monday nights. And he looked at what he had made and found it good, for it was, but it needed something.
"We'd started rocking out fire gigs with Stefan Zeniuk and his flaming saxophone at the Gowanus Ballroom. THAT was what we needed!"
Set the place on fire? Uh....naaaah! Make it LOOK like they set the place on fire? Uh......yaaaah!

"Church of Girl' Human Candelabra Collection

The Times Square gala for Chashama arts organization was the setting for a developing vision; the 'Church of Girl', featuring wax-covered models 

Cassandra Rosebeetle, Ali Luminescent, Christine Geiger, Christine Pawlovski and Kim Kahuna.
Weeks of drip-dripping of melting candles preceded it with Zen-like patience but the result was a shrine to beauty where the audience could worship and light candles upon their favorite goddesses. 
It was an extension of last years' interactive candelabra with Sarah Sparkles where the audience dripped the candles directly onto her, forming the wax encasement.
All these things are now a line of live candles/wax installations and experiences made by Flambeaux for events and gatherings, so give us a call if you'd like them. And much thanks to Chashama arts organization who have supported us through the years and whom we enjoy contributing our works to annually for their Times Square gala.....

Flambeaux Fire with Empire of the Sun for MTV IGGY's Music Experiment 2.0

"It's a Pagan-Burning Man-Mad Max-Aesthetic," read the email from the producers. 

"DUH," we thought. That's kinda what we do! The event featured the totally hot right now Australian pop-duo Empire of the Sun, a band known for its theatrics, dancing, amazing costumes and HEADDRESSES. 
We were a perfect fit for the show, which was a free "secret" concert taking place at Gotham Hall on June 20th, the first in the 2.0 collection of the Music Experiment series. 
Flambeaux Fire performed a six person fire show to the sounds of African drummers and tribal-themed projections integrated with the megalithic architecture of Gotham Hall. 
The audience was right there with us, almost close enough to touch and there was almost a call-and-response atmosphere with the whole room responding to our movements with screams and cheers. There was a sea of cell phones taking pics and recording, so from stage it looked like the whole room was lit up like bioluminescent creatures (wish we had a pic from our view on stage of y'all!)

Some of our costumed performers roamed the room, partying with everyone and rocking out with LED hula hoop and angle-grinders. It was such a fun, amazing night and we were totally stoked to be a part of MTV Iggy's concert series. Big thanks to Nusrat and Roye at MTV for having us as well as Giant Step Productions and Atomic Entertainment! You guys totally rocked us out! 
photos by Warren Whitmore, Ray Wu, MTV, and from random twitter feed....

The Calling

"The Calling" is an immersive fire theater show produced by Flambeaux Fire. It is also an original musical and living art exhibition, using wearable fire sculptures as well as including steel and bronze fine art sculptures in the storyline. 

Styled as a large-scale spectacle show, "The Calling" is a magical quest for truth and freedom in a conflicted fantasy world that mirrors our own current reality. The story and production is a creative collaboration of those with hearts of fire, and for those who dare to live in dreams. It brings together an expanding cast of NYC's best artists that believe in dreaming and playing out fantasies and presenting themselves through archetypes.

The 'other-worldly' experience of the show is heightened by its location: the seemingly clandestine and cavernous Gowanus Ballroom in Brooklyn, NYC. A metal fabrication shop by day and performance and art exhibition space by night, it is an ideal industrial setting for our dark fairy tale, and a safe, mostly concrete location for fire art.

We hope to continue making our dreams a reality and our reality into our dreams. We are aiming for our next shows to take place in mid-July and min-November in Brooklyn. After that….we hope to take Manhattan on our journey as well. 

Here is a sample of some of the cast of past shows and future:

THE CAST:

Kai Altair - The Red Witch.
Flambeaux - The Fire Spirit Guide
Abby Hertz - The Fire Fairy
Ali Luminescent - The Oracle
Fayzah Fire - The Lady Bravah
Shane Ravenbane - King of Darkworld
Masae - The Fire Nymph
Jimmy Joe Connelly - The Mercenary
Claire DeLuxe - The Queen Giant
Christine Geiger - The Unicorn Sister

Francis "Faceboy" Hall - The Narrator
Ahnika Delirium - The Gypsy
Natalia Perlaza - The Timekeeper
Veronica Varlow - The Sorceress

We self-produced the first two shows and are currently raising money through Kickstarter to produce the next two shows! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2137924645/the-calling-by-flambeaux-fire