About Lady-Flame

Lady Flame offers dance entertainment and theatre for events such as private parties, fundraisers, celebrations, and festivals, with live or recorded musical accompaniment. We are fully insured and provide dedicated fire safety crew for all performances where open flame is used. Our material is intended for all ages.

Bio - Rebecca Firestone

Rebecca Firestone’s performance background includes over 25 years of dance training, as well as Aikido, Kung-Fu, and Kupigana Ngumi, an Afrikan fighting art. Dance styles include West African, Middle Eastern, and Jewish folkloric. Since coming to California in 1998, she has added fire performance and avant-garde circus theatre.

After graduating from Oberlin College in 1986, Rebecca moved to Washington, D.C., where she studied Aikido under Sensei Mitsugi Saotome, Senegalese dance with master dancer Assane Konte, Kupigana Ngumi with Mfundishi Tayari Casel, and Shaolin Kung-Fu with Mfundishi Bakari Alexander. During this time she supported herself as a technical writer for a consulting company that provided decision support analysis for the United States Postal Service.

In 1993, she moved to Boston and became a work-crazed yuppie, doing documentation and training for a telecommunications billing system, traveling to places like Malaysia, Australia, and London. While in Boston, she studied Caribbean dance and the Katherine Dunham dance technique with Cle Douglas, who has since passed on.

In 1998, weary of the chilly Boston winters, Rebecca moved to California, where she continued to work in the software industry while studying Yoga, Middle Eastern Dance, and circus arts. She participated in several large-scale Burningman art projects, including the Nebulous Entity in 1998, the L2K project in 2000, and the Bonefire performance of 2002. During this time she performed with the Dancers of the Mystic Sun under the artistic direction of Azar. She also did ensemble and solo work with Technomania Circus, with shows in Oakland, San Francisco, and San Diego.