Andrew D'Ascenzo is the co-founder of the entertainment company Bacchanal Promotions, and has been performing professionally since 2003. He started his career with fire poi, and trained with professionals from Toronto to San Francisco learning advanced techniques and new props. Andrew soon began innovating on his own, and now performs more than 5 fire acts professionally, in addition to other circus arts such as sword swallowing, jumping stilt acrobatics, unicycling, juggling, and more.