Themed Acts for Christmas

Whether you are organising a Christmas party, a corporate event, switching on the lights, or putting on a seasonal festival,  we have a fantastic selection of themed performers for you.  Below are a selection - for a CD of the full range please call or email Tarby. 

These Arctic Explorers are still trying to claim unknown territory for the Empire. It could be a car park, shopping mall or street. Be assured there will be challenges on the way, with benches to scale, flags to plant and patriotic tunes to hum. 

Balloon-ing elves will make all sorts of Christmas balloon models

As if poor Santa hasn’t enough on his shoulders. He now has a cheeky elf as well to bear. Very funny stilt act with juggling, music, magic and balloons.
Santa incorporates a small sound system so that the pair can carry on a lively banter.

Bjorn is a fully animated pod puppet. A highly skilled performer is inside operating all the movements including the facial animations - blinking eyes, sniffing nose, opening mouth and also live polar bear sounds.

Bruce, clad only in shorts, inflates a six foot balloon, into which he disappears bit by bit. Once inside he dances, protruding hands and feet. 
Then comes the climax. To a countdown the act ends with the bursting of the balloon, to reveal Bruce fully dressed – as Santa Claus!

Stiltwalkers with themed costumes. ‘Star and Moon’ capture the feel of a frosty night in the deep midwinter.

Fred The Christmas Tree, stands 8ft high and looks like a normal Christmas tree until he starts moving by himself, chatting with spectators and playing his own Christmas carols! 

Santa with a difference - this one glides about on his throne giving hearty cheer, seasons greetings and mince pies to those that he passes.

Two great Christmas stilt acts – Reindeer and elves and Wise Men and Camel

Amazing crystal manipulation and Ice People living statues 

'Jack Frost' and 'Snow Queen' on stilts really capture the spirit of Winter

The giant snowman carries a Victorian musician who plays a selection of Christmas tunes on ukulele and tuba. Lots of fun.

Probably not how you imagine paradise, but a lot more fun. These angels appear to hover above the ground in flowing illuminated white costumes. As they zoom around your venue, perfecting their formation gliding, they are accompanied by heavenly music.

The side-splittingly funny nun on the mobile grand piano, already has her Christmas repertoire ready to take to your event 

Two highly talented pixies take to their podiums to entertain your audiences with amazing routines and strange banter. 

Your favourite Christmas tunes as you have never heard them before. The Red Hot Santas’ swing, ska, funk and jazz versions will soon have everybody’s feet tapping

There is nothing like a dame. Rubella, Salmonella and Buttons, bring the magic of panto to the your venue, either walkabout or with short shows. Excellent panto

Inspired by Charles Dickens' novel and bearing an uncanny resemblance to the film character, Ebenezer Scrooge is cantankerous & downright miserable -
Bah-humbug! In contrast  - the jovial ghost of Christmas Pasts' uncontrollable peals of laughter and high spirits are highly infectious. Chocolate coins are magically produced for festive onlookers- teasing Scrooges' avarice further... 
Stunningly immersed in a magical snow storm, mounted on a vintage sledge, the stage is set - no matter which character you may agree with....

How could you possibly eat your Christmas dinner when you’ve met Bernice and Matthew, these friendly tap dancing turkeys

The Snow Queen and her Ice Chariot, complete with Snow Elves performing amazing acro-balance on her moving stage, and Fanny and Florrie, the fat Cockney fairies who sprinkle lucky fairy dust on passers by. 

This jump jive band can adapt to suit the occasion, wearing Dickensian or other costumes for Christmas and giving all those Christmas numbers a beat that will have people dancing in the streets

Magic and manipulation in a true Dickensian Style. 
Straight out of a Dickensian novel, spreading Christmas magic and sporting monocles, pocket watches and a healthy slice of Good Old Victorian Cheer! Two very talented performers teamed up for a high quality Christmas Duo

Roller girls will liven up any Christmas event

A mere doodle on paper come to life, join this animated stick figure girl as she hoops and jives across the stage to that fabulous Louis Prima track ‘I ain’t got Nobody’. Revealing more and more hoops as she goes, stick figure girl deftly manipulates 1 through to 6 hoops on different parts of the body at the same time. She will do the seemingly impossible by hooping a triangle and a square! 
It’s a visual feast of hooping tricks.

This is a high end corporate routine and uses silver holographic hoops. It combines jaw dropping tricks with a funky track and costume to match

Choreographed to the toe tapping classic Jackson 5 disco anthem ‘Blame it on the Boogie’, this is high level, high energy, high skilled hooping at its best! Audiences will be mesmerized by this hypnotic sparkling diva of hula as she effortlessly gyrates her body in every way to seamlessly manipulate first 1 through to 5 silver hoops about and around her. This dynamic routine is bought to a stunning climax as Angie deftly catches and hoops over 40 rings around her body.

- a cool walkabout to get your audiences into the festive spirit

A very big Santa. Rudolph loves his night on the tiles so Santa has to keep a tight rein on him! 

Holly & Ivy, Christmas elves creating mayhem from inside their Christmas tree homes

An exciting Christmas performance from a premier stilt and performance company. Up to 5 acrobats available.

Lovely fluffy snow people

Santa has lost his Christmas Jingle and needs help to find it in time, he gets all the help he needs from the Christmas Fairy herself, his elves the Sleigh Bells and even Frosty the Snowman. Includes lots of classic Christmas songs.
A 3 x 20 minutes show or combination of show and walkabout

Two colourfully dressed elves carry a spectacular swaying eight foot tall tower of presents. Armed with quill, clipboard, pocket watch & whistle Head Elf Horris attempts to keep their delivery on schedule, as Junior Elf Norris struggles and clowns with the teetering tower of presents. Both elves are ever watchful for people with names on the list of those who have been good! 

From across the desert sands come legendary storytellers Ruby Murry and Baba Ganush on their magical flying carpets. 

Lock up your fish! These pint sized pip-squeaks are carried around by two inquisitive larger than life birds. The Penguin Family have arrived!

Having lost their wisest man, the remaining two wise men have set it upon themselves to recruit a substitute third wise man.
Are you wise enough to join them? But it’s never easy to pass the tough tests of wisdom that they set whilst at the same time laughing at the hilarious gags and ridiculous props that they are armed with. The 2 wise men collar members of public (male or female, young and old) and quiz them with a barrage of trick questions and bizarre brainteasers to see if they have what it takes to be a wise man.
Fantastic costumes. massive beards and a pythonesque quality makes this walkabout act a real festive hit at any occasion.

Walkabout by Dickensian characters completely bemused by modern Christmas

Two explorers are bringing to justice an elf charged with mischievous behaviour during the festive season.

This show is performed by a group of highly trained fire artists. Each, a true master with his or her own skills.
They use contemporary inspiration and the element of fire is presented in a multitude of forms to create a blend of light and dance. With Professional stunt artists & members of the Guinness Book of Records for fire performing, this show is designed with the Wow factor in mind.
Our 4-6 person fire show includes a variety of exciting fiery tools and techniques, including, acrobatics, highly skilled fire stunts, stage pyrotechnics, and displays of dance and martial arts.
If you wish we can add contortion and aerial. The show has been fully choreographed to music and lasts 15mins. The artists create together really stunning effects throughout and ends
with a real Spectacular finale!

Really good face-painting at an event will make it an extra special day. 

Two elves with their ‘Goodometer’ test who has been good enough to receive presents from Santa.

How to Survive Christmas: A great comedy Christmas show from a master of street entertainment, packed with interactive fun and seasonal advice.

In a magical tree lined snowy glade families can make snow angels and crazy silhouettes then be photographed with their creations

The world’s leading LED and Laser-Dance performers delight audiences with an ice-cool Winter Wonderland as they spin super-bright graphics of holly, snowflakes, stars and reindeers through the air in this unique and tightly choreographed festive performance. 
 For added Wow-factor: company logos and seasonal messages can be custom programmed into the Pixel-Poi equipment - guaranteed to give the audience goose-bumps at the high points of the show.

Victorian themed twins, with Penny Farthing stunt riding, juggling, object manipulation, contact juggling, robotic body popping, close up magic, impeccable manners and fantastic chat, all to the accompaniment of period, (and not so period) music from their suitcase sound system and sometimes live music on the ukulele and banjo uke too. 

Beautiful and bizarre, two awesome-looking characters in intricate white costume, their entire skulls a brilliant metallic silver. Viewed high above their audience, they are elegant creatures of a tranquil and mysterious world.

Beginning centred on a revolving podium, two sculptured acrobatic figures entwine, using lifts of pure strength and counter balances of graceful beauty. This continues further…ascending high onto two suspended hoops; the figures rotate in the air, taking the show into a whole new dimension. The shows zenith is a drop of sheer courage and trust creating a breathtaking bow.

Revolutions; a powerful, hypnotic and captivating show.

A Christmas hoop extravaganza. The cheeky trio perform their amazing acro-balance and hula hoop act with classic Christmas songs, original moves and comic touches. A very high-energy, technically skilled, tongue-in-cheek show

Performed in blackout, the light-up hoops will dazzle and amaze. 
Three performers spin and twirl the stunning colour changing hoops in a beautifully choreographed dramatic routine.

With lightening speed, Jon creates giant painted artworks before your very eyes. It could be this jolly Santa, a winter wonderland or a Christmas entertainer.

Hilarious walkabout with high-speed grannies out to do their Christmas shopping!

From the company that gave you Tribe and a host of arcane beasts, come the Winter Creature, Lofty and Holly, a pair of gentle woodland elves and the winter elves, on the run from slaving in Santa’s workshop.

Mr Scrooge and Mr Scratchit bring their ‘carol singing’ carriage to your seasonal event and ruin everyone's fun.
Father Christmas is blown up the chimney and everyone is wished a thoroughly miserable Christmas...

Famous aerial and character stilt actor, Mark Tate, has some dramatic seasonal characters for this Winter. 
Frozanne, is the mistress of the Arctic world and the newest addition to winter themed act ‘Thawed’. Covered in hundreds of hand sewn crystal beads, icicles and snowflakes, she epitomizes Winter and is watched over by her two protectors, ‘Frostbite’ and ‘Yeti’ . . ‘Frostbite is a beautiful jewelled Ice Lion on quad-peg stilts and ‘Yeti’, a snow beast bounding around on the bouncing stilts. 

Can you imagine an 18 stone man pretending to be a pretty fairy on the top of a 6ft unicycle? Well, here he is. A comedy act to have you aching from laughter.

Did you see Elvis Presley just go by? An 8 foot stilt Elvis angel on his comeback tour plays Xmas hits and classics, shakes his wings and mingles with his fans.

She is cold, magical and glamorous, and she shall have snow wherever she goes. Accompanied by acolytes, she is quite happy to chat about her penguins back home and discuss the latest styles in fridge freezers. 

Up to 10 performers.

Two of Santa’s elves have been sent by the big man himself to adorn the streets with Christmas Karaoke! 
They’ve got the music, they’ve got the moves, all they need is a singer or two. Could it be you?

Mother Christmas stilt walkabout has lightwire stars on her costume. 
Mother Christmas and the elf are also ground-based balloon modellers.

With more than a smidgen of mischief, this oversequinned couple combine their superbly skilled acrobalance and dubious tango dancing with a generous helping of comedy. Strictly Dumb Prancing have honed over ten years of performance experience and made the best of the faces they were born with to bring you this masterpiece in physical comedy loved by both children and adults. From somersaults and handstands high up in the air to the shameless misuse of superman pants, Strictly Dumb Prancing expertly lay waste to the passion and raw sexuality of tango. Audiences are caught between gasps of amazement for the acrobatic feats and clutching their sides at the hilarious battle of skills, wills and cheesy smiles. 
Strictly Dumb Prancing can dazzle with their cabaret piece or amaze with their street theatre version.
Once seen never forgotten.

Betty Twinkle, an old Victorian fairy borne on the back of Robin, her reliant red breast. Heeding Santa's warnings of staff shortages this Christmas, Betty Twinkle and Robin have left their country life to bring Christmas cheer to all throughout the land. Robin whistles classic Christmas songs whilst Betty works her magic with fairy dust, snow and chocolate gold coins for those who have been good.
A delightful solo walkabout, beautifully designed and wonderfully executed.

Bring a twist to your Christmas event with Father Twistmas's dazzling contortionism stage show. A fantastic display of acrobatic and comedic contortion demonstrating an extreme flexibility rarely seen in modern man! Yule love this act! Performed on a raised stage to music.

A pair of slightly round Christmas Fairies, Sugar and Plum, gorgeously attired in pink and silver with the their very own giant Christmas pudding. These fairies are full of Christmas fun and downright greedy. This walkabout is accompanied by background music from the Christmas pudding itself.

A Winter Rose of yesteryear,
Is here to share her festive cheer,
Her cargo decked with things that grow,
Holly, ivy, mistletoe.
She’ll summon up traditions past,
And leave a memory sure to last.
So banish winter’s cold and gloom,
And delight in this Yuletide bloom.

A delightful puppet walkabout show featuring the ancient wayfarer puppet ‘Winter Rose’, carrying her colourful cargo of festive flowers & foliage and interacting with the public.

Beautiful white cossacks

Very ugly sister stilt walkers

A stunning stilt and aerial company.
Both acts are available as stilts or aerial. Airlight perform a beautiful choreography of changing lights, and a multi-coloured swirl of costume. 

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Beautiful white winter stilt walkers from a stunning stilts company.

Can't see what you want? Call Tarby for a full list of Christmas themed performers