Fire of Anatolia

The Fire of Anatolia or Anadolu Ateşi is a Turkish dance group consisting of 120 dancers, several choreographers and other technical staff.

The group has performed in more than 85 countries from the United States to China and Japan, in front of an audience of approximately 20 million people altogether.

[1] Fire of Anatolia holds two Guinness records, one for fastest dance performance[2] with 241 steps per minute[3] and another for largest audience, 400,000 people in Ereğli, in the Black Sea Region of the country.

[5] The dance group has performed so far in more than 40 countries, including the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Russia, Qatar, China, Japan, Kazakhstan, France, Egypt (just in front of the Pyramids), The Netherlands and Mexico.

[7] Oktay Keresteci, one of Turkey's most acknowledged ballet dancers and teachers,[8] still performs on stage with Fire of Anatolia, despite his 48 years of age.