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Gala concert of the International "East Fire Festival-2016" was held in Vladivostok on 10th of September at the "Avangard" stadium. The show was attended by about three thousand people. 15 performances, made by fire-dancers from Russia, South Korea, Taiwan and Germany, have been shown during the show.

Fifth anniversary International "East Fire Festival-2016" gathered not only local fire dancers, but also the once from Novosibirsk, Blagoveshchensk, Zheleznogorsk, Moscow, Yaroslavl, Khabarovsk, Seoul, Berlin and Taipei, as total,  about 150 performing artists have been dancing on one stage.

The festival participants showed their best programs during two days.  Dancers demonstrated different styles, themes and eras. Most of the performances are being shown by dancing teams, but there were individual shows also. One of them was shown by Alexander Lir from Vladivostok. His performance got the Grand Prix of the festival.

Another solo program was performed by the winner of Fire Festival Korea - Shin Masta (Seoul), who came to the "East Fire Festival" from Nevada State (USA).

One of the most expected was performance of German Solstix duet. This duet has a Cirque du Soleil performance level.  It took East Fire festival organizers three years to make famous German duet participate in the event.

It is worth noting that the best team of 2016 year East Fire Festival will be announced later, when organizers will make their decision, basing on video-records of all performances.

News source: "Вести:Приморье" [ www.vestiprim.ru ]