Theo Dari, also known as Laserman, works with lasers to create dramatic, high-energy, and highly visual entertainment acts. The artist has performed at numerous events, including at the Long Beach Arena's new Pacific Ballroom debut.
Photo: Courtesy of Long Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau
Tryon Entertainment is offering new so-called “human disco balls” for events. The stylishly dressed four-member crew makes appearances with text scrolling across LED disco-ball-shaped heads. The text can be customized with the event’s message.
Photo: Tryon Entertainment
Broadway singers and musicians perform in their underwear as the Skivvies. Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley do stripped-down (so to speak) versions of covers and originals for some can't-look-away entertainment.
Photo: Courtesy of The Skivvies
Among De Leon Productions' offerings is a team of performers who do sideshow feats. Think sword swallowing and the so-called "human pincushion."
Photo: Courtesy of De Leon Productions
Key Artist Group offers so-called "living vines" for event booking. The human foliage can interact with guests and with one another for slightly surrealistic entertainment, just right for seasonal events.
Photo: Courtesy of Capital Home and Garden Show
Interactive buffet heads from Day Entertainment & Events include a glittery, grinning human cupcake.
Photo: Courtesy of Day Entertainment & Events
Originally commissioned by Swarovski for the window of its flagship store in London, Private Drama's "Twilight Flutterby" costumed performer features a tornado of colorful butterflies encrusted with crystals.
Photo: Courtesy of Private Drama
"Tell-A-Vision" (as seen on America's Got Talent) is live performance art conceived and developed by Dorene Collier and AJ LeBlanc of Event Show Productions. Through two years of research, they created what they’re billing as a “moving storybook" that uses wireless technology and incorporates video screens joined with live performers.
Photo: Courtesy of Event Show Productions
What event doesn't need music and a little nosh? Marc Weiss, also known as DJ Chef, bills himself as a culinary entertainer. He cooks his signature dishes while he spins for the crowd.
Photo: Courtesy of DJ Chef
Toronto-based street painter David Johnston uses chalk to make realistic trompe l’oeil images at live events for brands such as 20th Century Fox, Canon, and Loblaws. He creates the seemingly 3-D scenes and objects on flat surfaces such as cement or canvas.
Photo: Courtesy of David Johnston
French artist Antonin Fourneau practices water light graffiti, a process that involves using a damp sponge brush to draw on an installation made from thousands of small LED lights that light up when touched by water. Fourneau’s interactive performances are customizable, allowing audience members to try their hand at the art form.
Photo: Filip Wolak Photography
Kansas City, Missouri-based Quixotic Fusion offers an eclectic swirl of acrobatic feats, pulsing rhythms, and colorful digital images and light projections. The group can perform from five-minute openers to 75-minute features.
Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Companies including Google and Disney have booked iLuminate. Dancers wear bodysuits outfitted with wirelessly controlled lights that coordinate with the dancers’ movements, resulting in sci-fi visuals.
Photo: Courtesy of iLuminate
At a Prudential Real Estate conference in Orlando, Dallas-based Corporate Magic paired live dancers with digitized butterfly wings projected inside floating orbs to create a single, fluid movement of person and pixels onstage. In-house animators achieved the effect by using green-screen technology.
Photo: Jeffrey A. Davis
Lumina the Laser Violinist puts a futuristic spin on a classic instrument. The musicians, booked solo or as a duo or trio, play with a laser bow while standing among pulsing light beams.
Photo: Courtesy of Lumina the Laser Violinist
