Speakers
Identifying and finding the right speaker for your important
event can be a really laborious task, but with NPE’s expertise and experience
it’s a breeze! You want a keynote speaker? We have the tools to unlock your
aspirations. A famous sports person? Knock the audience for six with NPE’s
stable of sporting legends. Or perhaps some motivation is required, or an after
dinner raconteur maybe? Step right up Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Sir Steve Redgrave,
Dr David Bellamy, Bob Champion and Gyles Brandreth all recently booked by Nic Picot
Entertainment. Penny Smith and Juliette Morris will expertly link and present
your award ceremony or even host your conference for you.
In addition to your speaker why not have some audience
participation? Get your guests and delegates interacting with one of our
effective team building or motivational programmes. Our unique acts teach
communication skills through their circus, magic & mime workshops; it’s
innovative and something delegates certainly won’t forget! All events are
tailored to suit individual requirements so that you get exactly what’s right
for your company. Call us for a friendly chat and we’ll come up with ideas to
suit your business requirements and your budget.
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for all Corporate and Private Events both nationally and internationally. Magic (conjuring), art of entertaining with tricks that are in apparent violation
of natural law. The principles of deception that magicians use are psychological;
the methods are manipulative and mechanical. The psychological principles are
misdirection, suggestion, imitation, and concealment. The spectators do not
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they see things that do not happen. Such faulty perception leads to false assumptions,
fallacious logic, and, in the end, to the conclusion that the performer has
achieved an impossible result. Sleight of hand (that is, deception by manual
dexterity) consists in the performance of certain actions that are not perceived
because they are concealed, or are misconstrued because they imitate some innocent,
natural action. In the more difficult magical tricks, the performer employs
sleight of hand without the use of special apparatus. Mechanical methods involve
the use of camouflaged apparatus that the audience sees but does not comprehend
themed evenings and of apparatus that is not seen. The tricks
employing apparatus include stage tricks in which objects appear, disappear,
change, float on air, survive mutilation, or penetrate solid barriers. Mentalism
is a branch of conjuring in which the magician simulates telepathy, clairvoyance,
and precognition (see Psychical Research). The earliest written records indicate
that a distinction has probably always been made between magicians who are entertainers
and the tribal witch doctors and medicine men who claimed that their incantations
and spells could control nature and human destiny. exhibition entertainment
The first magicians of recorded history were those team building events
of ancient Egypt. The Egyptian magician Dedi (fl. about 2700 bc) gave a performance
in which he decapitated two birds and an ox and then restored their heads. Other
Egyptian magicians were noted for their skill with the trick of the cups and
balls. In this trick small balls seem to pass lookalike agencies
invisibly from one inverted cup or bowl to another. magicians and mix
and mingle entertainers Finally, they are converted into larger spheres
or such unexpected things as oranges or live baby chicks. Sleight of hand with
coins, dice, and, later, playing cards added variety to the performances of
medieval magicians. The tricks of the cut and restored string and of thrusting
a dagger through the arm without injury were performed in taverns and in marketplaces.
The Italian Giuseppe Pinetti was the most imitated magician of the 18th century.
His repertory included automatons (that is, machines that operated by themselves);
pretended second sight; and novel tricks with apparatus.The 19th-century British
magician John Henry Anderson, called the Wizard of the party bands
North, was a master publicist. after dinner entertainment Among
his promotional schemes were elaborate street parades, flamboyant posters, and
advertisements stencilled on pavements. His tricks frequently related to current
news topics, and he often denounced as frauds people professing supernatural
powers. In the same period, the French magician Jean Houdin, a clockmaker who
at the age of 40 became a professional magician, revolutionized the art of magic
with his ingenious stage mechanisms and effective presentations. His textbooks
were the first to treat magic scientifically, and he was the first to use electricity
corporate entertainment as an aid in stage mysteries. Another
19th-century French magician who developed original techniques was Joseph Buatier,
known as Buatier De Kolta. Two of his outstanding inventions were the vanishing
birdcage, a trick in which a live canary and a metal cage disappeared at his
fingertips, and the expanding die, in which a 20-cm (8-in) cube suddenly increased
20 times its original size and was then lifted to disclose a seated woman. The
popular conception of a magician as a slender man with a moustache, goatee,
and casino evenings satanic air probably started with the Herrmann
family, for the famed magicians of this family all answered to the description.
Carl Herrmann, a native of Vienna, won acclaim in Europe and America. His younger
brother, the American magician Alexander Herrmann, called Herrmann the Great,
and his nephew Leon Herrmann also toured extensively in America and abroad.
John Maskelyne and his partner roadshows and promotions David
Devant, the leading British magicians at the turn of the century, presented
many of their acts in the form of skits or short plays. Their London theatre
was world famous. The American magician Harry Kellar took his show, company
fun days which included sleight of hand, illusions, and the duplication
of feats performed by alleged spirit mediums, around the world. He was the best-known
magician in America when he retired in 1908. His successor, the American magician
Howard Thurston, performed throughout the United States for 28 years. His show
included such spectacular features as the vanishing motor car, the Indian rope
trick, and levitation. Harry August Jansen, who used Dante as his professional
name, and Harry Blackstone carried on the tradition.
