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Fire Performance Friday

Whether you’re planning on heading out to the nearby St Anthony’s Italian Festival or looking for a nice evening out, stop by Union City Grille this Friday, June 17th.  We’ll be street performing out front throughout the evening, and singer Steve Silicato will be performing inside.
Their menu is online at unioncitygrill.com, which you should peruse [...]

Happy St Patty’s Day!

Hey there everyone! We’re finally getting some warm weather and there’s a great event this weekend where you can get out and enjoy it.

The St Patty’s Day loop is taking place this Saturday, March 12th in Wilmington, DE! For those of you who haven’t attended one of the local loops, this one is one of the best! The way it works is that you head to any participating venue (We suggest Club 3) to pick up a wristband. This gets you access to 21 different venues with a complimentary shuttle bus running between them. This is a great way to check out a lot of really cool spots in and around Wilmington all in one night.

We’ll be performing out front of Club 3 (Formerly the Funkey Monkey) fro 9pm to midnight. For those of you who’ve seen us perform there throughout the winter with glow, this will be a show you won’t want to miss! For those of you who haven’t seen our glow performances at Club 3, we’re there every Friday night partying it up with DJ Gizmo. Come join us!

Spring is coming…

Winter’s almost over, and we at The Playing Mantis are excited to be able to get outside and play! We hope all of you other object manipulators and fire dancers feel the same way, and we have some big news for you…

Our online store is now up and running!

You can click on the “Store” tab to browse our most commonly purchased props and supplies. Pick your new props up now and be ready for that nice weather! You can, of course, still order custom-made props by contacting us directly.

We’d also like to invite everyone to come out and join us every Friday night at Club 3 in Wilmington. We perform with LED, glow, and lasers throughout the evening along with beats provided by DJ Gizmo. It’s a great party that keeps growing, so come on out and enjoy!

WoW: Cataclysm Launch

Join us at GameStop as they celebrate the launch of the newest update to the World of Warcraft series: Cataclysm.

We’ll be at the Glen Mills store for the midnight launch, performing in the parking lot out front. Directions are available on our events page.

For more information, or to pre-order WoW: Cataclysm, you can call GameStop at (610) 558-3514.

Hope to see you there!

Ruins

Last year’s Firebird Festival in Phoenixville introduced us to Mitch Martinez of Stamphill Motion Pictures. We came up with a number of ideas about what we could come up with by combining our talents, and decided that the best way to test some of the concepts we’d been batting around would be by exploring those ideas through a video. We’re looking forward to working with Mr. Martinez in the future, and we hope you enjoy what we’ve come up with so far.

So, without further ado… Ruins.

RUINS – Fire Dancers from Stamphill Motion Pictures on Vimeo.

Produced by Stamphill Motion Pictures – stamphill.com