“When I performed with two fire batons, the stadium lights were shut off….I loved to listen of the audience reactions when I would do my high-flying and twirling fire batons. When you’re down on the field, it was hard to see tiny, intricate moves,” she said. It looked exciting, and I wanted to go for a ‘big’ show. “There were batons with lights or ribbons, but I liked the idea of fire. She recalled that she added fire to her baton routine after hearing about it from other twirlers while she was still in high school. Sister Long immediately thought of her own fire baton twirling when she first visited the PCC as a tourist in 1985 and saw the Samoan fire knife dancer routines. and as a BYU marching band majorette in the mid-1960s. Sister Sue Ann Long, volunteering at the Polynesian Cultural Center (left). She eventually became the baton majorette for her junior high and high schools in China Lake, California, as well as solo twirler for the Brigham Young University marching band in Provo, Utah, in the mid-1960s. Ten-year-old Sue Ann taught herself how to twirl the baton after receiving one as a Christmas gift. LDSP oversees charitable contributions to BYU and BYU–Hawaii.īut Sister Long has a hidden talent that helps her to appreciate the level of expertise necessary to perform with the Samoan fire knife at the Polynesian Cultural Center. ![]() She perfected that skill after working as an administrative assistant for the director of LDS Philanthropies (LDSP) for 13 years, and was then assigned to digitally compile LDSP’s 40-year archives. ![]() Sister Sue Ann Long, 73, is a senior volunteer missionary from Provo, Utah, who is helping to digitize the PCC’s archives. Former baton majorette looks at Samoan fire knivesĪ former baton-twirling majorette shared several interesting observations after watching the Polynesian Cultural Center’s recent Samoan World Fireknife Championships in May 2017. PCC Samoan cultural ambassador, knife dancer and artist Kap Te’o-Tafiti shows us his fire knife rig.
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