Outdoor Aerial Dancers
Scarlett Entertainment (281.900.4176, scarlettentertainment.com) now offers site-specific outdoor aerial dancers for events. Available nationwide, the artists use aerial and ballet techniques to perform across the face of buildings and can incorporate silks, ropes, zip lines, bungee cords, and partner balancing tricks.
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Digital Aquascapes
Coral Morphologic (coralmorpho logic.com) is teaming with the Miami Science Museum on a multimedia project to be displayed at the Miami International Airport, where high-definition screens will showcase corals as living art forms in digital aquascapes. The installation is meant to build excitement for the museum’s new $275 million facility opening in 2015.
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Handmade Doughnuts
Toronto's Glory Hole Doughnuts (gloryholedoughnuts.com) has been garnering buzz with flavors like maple bacon, chicken and waffles, and lemon meringue. The supplier can deliver as many as 300 handmade doughnuts or 500 “Lil’ Glories” for events.
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Karl’s Event Services now has a patent-pending temporary structure called the Mirage Series, which incorporates a hard material facade as well as glass and vinyl. The series can be used for temporary events like showrooms, retail spaces, and fashion shows, and was most recently seen during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York.
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Available to rent in the U.S. for the first time, Denver-based EPS-Doublet’s (800.227.0337, epsdoublet.com) Stretch Tent line, manufactured by RHI Tents in South Africa, is made with waterproof stretch fabric. Larger tents can have sides up or down, while poles can be repositioned to accommodate more guests; units can also be wrapped around trees, rocks, and walls. The tents can be custom-colored and printed.
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Karl’s Event Services (917.449.3844, karls.com) in Belleville, New Jersey, recently developed a custom mezzanine-level option to be incorporated into clearspan structures, intended for extra seating niches or V.I.P. areas.
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Classic Tents (310.328.5060, classictentrentals.com) in Torrance, California, reports an increase in requests for hard structures. The company was called upon to construct a custom, hard structure with glass and branding for last summer’s Nike U.S. Open of Surfing.
Photo: Courtesy of Classic Tents
