#poi spinning
While working at a South Sinai camp in 2015, Donia Genena recalls how one of the camp’s guests left behind a fire poi, which comprises two round weights tethered by a string. Intrigued, she picked them up and attempted to understand what they were, when one of the camp’s guests, a young Indian woman, approached her and asked to use them. The guest began swaying them around in harmonious fashion as Genena watched, her curiosity growing with each rhythmic movement.…
