Profile: Kyle Rasmussen

Last week, Dupont Circle was on fire! Well, at least it was on the north side of it.

This was thanks to a troupe of fire performers led and organized by Kyle Rasmussen:

Photo Credit: Joey Oliver

Kyle and company were presented as part of this year's Art All Night: Nuite Blanche DC. And, a disclaimer: I connected her to the opportunity during my time at the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which has produced the event since 2014.

Kyle is a circus arts and flow arts performer in the District.  And she uses both fire and LED props in her flow artistry. For the Art All Night performance, she used fan (depicted in the photo above) and hoop fire props.

Check out this clip I caught of the troupe from Art All Night.

Kyle and the rest of the participants in the video are members of the local DC Burner community, that is individuals who go to Burning Man and related events in this region and all over the country, even internationally.

It is a community dedicated to cultivating creative and inclusive experiences, often times in non-tradtional and non-established settings and spaces. Which made them a perfect fit for Art All Night, a city supported initiative in five neighborhoods, as of 2015, to get residents and visitors to see, and do, and play with art all over.

Kyle is among a local circle of flow artists dedicated to and skilled at their craft. She's been part of a group that has even represented the District at Burning Man, as one of a number of conclaves who auditioned and were selected to perform the night the Man burns. If you have about 20 minutes, you can see Kyle here in Revoluationary Motion's performance from 2014 at Burning Man.

Keep up with Kyle at her Facebook page, Kyle Intergalactic Virvelvind, as she and other flow artists keep it moving in the District.