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.  For more information or help choosing 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. 

Booking Ref: ST1

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

Booking Ref: BA1

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.

Booking Ref: BB1

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.

Booking Ref: LK3

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!

Booking Ref: LJ1

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

Booking Ref: CT1

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! 

Booking Ref: BO1

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

Booking Ref: BJ1

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

Booking Ref: GT1

Amazing crystal manipulation and Ice People living statues 

Booking Ref: JM1

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

Booking Ref: FH1

This larger than life aristocratic Lord and Lady Pompous, straight out of the 18th Century (c. 1760) are all dressed up to the nines, with their fabulous sculptural hair styles, powder faces and gorgeous gowns. 

They are totally aghast at their surroundings and lost in their own pompous aristocratic world. Now available Illuminated!

Booking Ref: AP1

 
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Booking Ref: GB1

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

Booking Ref: JR1

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.

Booking Ref: LA2

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

Booking Ref: MR1

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

Booking Ref: AM1

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

Booking Ref: SB1

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

Booking Ref: CF1

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....

Booking Ref: DP1

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

Booking Ref: MF1

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. 

Booking Ref: CR1

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

Booking Ref: SW2

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

Booking Ref: DB1

Roller girls will liven up any Christmas event

Booking Ref: RG1

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.

Booking Ref: AH1

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

Booking Ref: AH2

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.

Booking Ref: AH2

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

Booking Ref: AR1

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

Booking Ref: BR1

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

Booking Ref: BB2

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

Booking Ref: CC1a

Lovely fluffy snow people

Booking Ref: CC1b

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

Booking Ref: CC2

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! 

Booking Ref: CE1

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

Booking Ref: CE2a

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

Booking Ref: CE2b

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.

Booking Ref: AM2

Walkabout by Dickensian characters completely bemused by modern Christmas

Booking Ref: DC1a

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

Booking Ref: DC1b

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!

Booking Ref: DE1

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

Booking Ref: FP1

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

Booking Ref: FP2

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

Booking Ref: DS1

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

Booking Ref: FF2

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.

Booking Ref: FF4

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. 

Booking Ref: LK1

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.

Booking Ref: FO1a

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.

Booking Ref: HE1

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

Booking Ref: HL1

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.

Booking Ref: HL2

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.

Booking Ref: JH1

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

Booking Ref: LA1

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.

Booking Ref: LK2

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...

Booking Ref: MM1

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. 

Booking Ref: MT2

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.

Booking Ref: MB1

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.

Booking Ref: MH1

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.

Booking Ref: ML1

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?

Booking Ref: RS1

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

Booking Ref: SD1

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.

Booking Ref: SD2

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.

Booking Ref: SW1a

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.

Booking Ref: RR1

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.

Booking Ref: SW1b

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.

Booking Ref: CC3

Beautiful white cossacks

Booking Ref: FF3a

Very ugly sister stilt walkers

Booking Ref: FF3b

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. 

Booking Ref: WS1a

Beautiful white winter stilt walkers from a stunning stilts company.

Booking Ref: WS1b

Super Miss Santa stilts

Booking Ref: SR1

"For Rimski, life has many dilemmas, solo or duet? church or cabaret? ruin or fame? hell.....or Swindon? One thing is certain: he has a long way to go on the piano."
 

A roving piano - and pianist! Now with lights for dark evenings!

Booking Ref: RP1
 

Booking Ref: CR2

Fearing redundancy in the credit crunch, Santa's naughty reindeer have stolen is sleigh and pimped his ride.
Cruising the streets they show off Christmas magic tricks whilst playing their favourite seasonal tunes.
Hooves in the air everybody!

Booking Ref: BE1

Christmas carols such as ‘Stray in a manger’, ‘We Three Cats’ and ‘Ding Dong Tabilly on high’ are brought to you by two tempestuous, tenacious tabbies…In bins overflowing with unwanted toys, unmoved pullovers and hidden Brussels Sprouts they will bring joy to all. Furry Christmas one and all!

Booking Ref: ST2

Booking Ref: AR2

Booking Ref: NH1

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Booking Ref: CH3

A highly talented juggler who not only juggles with footballs and tennis rackets but also juggles Christmas!

Booking Ref: SV1 

Let the Victorian Snow Family melt your heart! Presenting the esteemed Major Wilfred Winterbottom, Lady Uphemia Winterbottom and their little urchin Baby Snowflake. With his business interests in the frozen North failing and his assets frozen the Major has hit the sherry. In response the hard times the family now work the mix n'mingle circuit spreading festive cheer at any Christmas, Winter or Ice themed event.

Booking Ref: CE3

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Booking Ref: MB2

Booking Ref: TM1

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A human tables walkabout performance, available on stilts or on foot the Cake Ladies bring you a saucy roaming tea party dishing up sweet treats with lashings of humour.

Booking Ref: DG1

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These cheeky Christmas puddings can come either on foot, stilts or rollerskates.

Booking Ref: MP1

Nutcracker toy soldiers on stilts

Booking Ref: MP2

Cheeky Santa's Helpers are a comic acrobalance duo who can do roaming acro as a walkabout or perform their 6 minute festive show. They can also be on rollerskates.

Booking Ref: MP3

A Christmas Tree with in built real life fairy!

Booking Ref: SR2

Felix Brent the English Gent decorates his penny farthing with tinsel and fairy lights and plays old Christmas Crooner tunes on his sound system. A brilliant multi skilled performer.

The Victorian Pickpockets are highly interactive comic roving street characters.
They aim to bring a sense of playfulness, fun and lightness to any event.
They are a couple of likely lads with a cheeky, cheery nature who dream of the high life.
They are out to make an impression with the ladies and don’t be surprised if you find yourself falling for their charms or being serenaded down the street.
But be warned better watch your pockets.

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