Performers have been particularly hard hit during the pandemic, with most paying gigs drying up. This reality was no different for St. Croix’s Julia Coral De Lucia. Creator of CoralFire, a troupe of ...

Aug. 31—Family members used to tell a young Than Povi Martinez they could envision her one day dancing around the skirts of Zozobra. Each year, as the scene would unfold at Fort Marcy Park for the ...

. TODD: THE FIRE SPIRIT IS ZOZOBRA’S ARCH-ENEMY. DRESSED IN ALL RED, ARMED WITH A PAIR OF BLAZING TORCHES, WHE YOU SEE THE DANCER, YOU KNOW ZOZOBRA’S REIGN OF TERROR IS ABOUT TO GO UP IN FLAMES. BUT ...

On the first Friday of every month, crowds watch in awe as glowing performers twirl like living flames and the sparks coming off of their torches light the Jackson Ward night sky.

A burlesque dancer who was trapped in a burning home begged for help before she died in a bungled hit job. Katie Tangey, also know by her stage name Vivien May-Royale, died in a targeted house blaze ...