Miss Olive Dip
Miss Olive Dip is a fire spinner from Sydney Australia. She mixes just the right amount of sex and fire to fuel some truly awe inspiring performances.
"Flames of Artistry: Miss Olive Dip Sets Sydney's Stage Ablaze"
by Mr. Wrath
Welcome to the scorching world of Wrath and Love Magazine where things are heating up! Recently, I had the great pleasure of interviewing Miss Olive Dip, a fire spinning, hula hooping, circus performing, flow artist from Sydney Australia. With a fiery passion that can light up a room, Olive’s performances are truly breathtaking and sometimes death defying. Although the flow art subculture may often remain elusive to most outsiders, we're here to provide you with an opportunity to dive right in. So grab a fire extinguisher and things are going to get hot, hot, hot!
What is Flow Arts?
“It's like object manipulation, using what you'd call a flow prop and just moving with it. You build up this kind of knowledge of tricks and you just kind of moving and grooving with it like with a hula hoop.”
-Olive
Palm Torch Performance
A ROAD LESS TRAVELED
A ROAD LESS TRAVELED
The path of fire spinning is an extraordinary one, traversed by only a select few. In the realm where individuals dance with flames, encountering an artist who spins fire for a living is a true rarity. So how Olive ended up here is a testament to the profound influence of universal intervention. When Olive was in her early 20s she was a frequent club goer with a true love for dancing and became a core part of her life. However, it wasn’t until she broke her ankle that Olive was forced to discover new ways for her to itch that scratch for seductive, hypnotic movements. This began her hula hooping. This became a pivotal point in Olive's life that led her to finding the world of flow arts.
Olive: “It took me into this kind of like hippy phase, which is what led me to Southeast Asia. We just happened to be on a train going to Bangkok where we met some people that invited us to their hostel to freshen up. When I went to the hostel and went to the bathroom there was this sticker that said something like “Free flow of 10 days of five spinning Flow Arts lifestyle Festival,” and I was like, Holy shit, I am going to change my entire trip. I'm gonna go to this festival in Cambodia.”
Olive did end up attending the festival but unfortunately contracted salmonella with half of the other festival goers and missed her opportunity to learn this incredible artform. However, she remarks that it was this experience that “planted a seed” for her. Fast Forward a year later and Olive is introduced to the organizer of a fire spinning festival in Australia who invites her to come and learn how to spin. Olive said that she quit her job almost immediately and decided to devote herself to this artform. Ultimately she ended up discovering more about herself then she ever did before.
Olive: “It was the moment that I spun fire for the first time and I was like, the adrenaline was just incredible…it took me on this crazy journey of really breaking down all of the blockages I had with me for performing because I've always loved performing since I was a kid. It was always what I wanted to do when I grew up. But along the way I just stopped thinking that I could do it. It felt like the universe was really on my side and just the timings and the same synchronicity that brought me constantly back to this festival that provided me the space to like crack open this love that I always had, and reconnect to performing in this really alternative way.”
Within the past decade, flow art has been gaining momentum and becoming more recognized as a respected form of performance art. But that isn’t to say it doesn’t come without its own set of stereotypes. Olive hopes break those misconceptions.
Olive: you do get a lot of hippies fire spinning, but you also get a lot of people who definitely aren't close to hippies at all, that are just really passionate about science and working with the elements. They're really passionate about movement, but in a nerdy, kind of way, which is so cool, you get so many different types of people in the flow art scene.
My last question to olive was “what is one thing people should know about you.” Olive responded by saying this:
“Everything that I have experienced and what I do, you can also do and you can create your own reality of creativity being the forefront of your experience.”
Miss Olive Dip Performing to the dong “Toxic” by Britney Spears