Thank you! I do like photographing fire performance. My main rule is no flash. I cringe when I see someone photographing fire performers using a flash. Flashes wash away much of what I consider interesting, the stuff that I am trying to capture.

If I were staging photos, I would consider using some low lighting with red or amber gels, to fill it things a little, but not so much that you would notice that there was any lighting done in the final photos. The fire itself creates the light I want to see.