More Christian and Katalina in action. A big thank-you to everyone for the great comments about our show.

We performed 4 hours of mingling magic at Hoosier Park. This was our first time performing at a live race track.

The guests loved it!

Not only did they enjoy live horse racing, they were having a blast watching the close-up magic and mind reading. Although people have seen some magic on TV, most have not seen any close-up magic; it is extremely powerful!

Magic definitely leaves a lasting impression and provides a topic of conversation for days to follow. That’s why magic is perfect for corporate meetings, conferences, and events.

We love performing at colleges and universities that have a high percentage of theater, music, and art majors. The students are very emotive and are familiar with live entertainment. They enjoy the whole performing process since many of them are performers themselves.

Thank-you Becca and the students at Shenandoah University.

Check out our new video on YouTube!

Here we are performing at a theater in Pigeon Forge.

Enjoy!

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Trade show magic is fun yet challenging. The goal is to get conference attendees to the booth, put out information about the company in an entertaining way, and then let the salesmen finish the job. You have to constantly keep an eye on the salesmen to see when the next customers can be sent their way and if they are not ready, continue to entertain them until they are.

Christian and Katalina are naturals at getting people to the booth. Christian hooks them with his boisterous voice and outgoing personality. Katalina jumps in to entertain with something they have never seen before. What a combination!

People return over and over the see us entertain. That is the goal: to get people talking about the entertainment and make them say to others: “You have to go see the entertainers at _____ Company’s booth”. This keeps the company in the forefront of the atttendees minds.

When you can combine entertainment with product and service information, retention of data is much higher.

February was the blizzard month. March is the blossom month. We are so happy to be out of the cold and into the warm, sunny, blossoming southern US. We have had a great time this past week in Georgia. Everyone has been so friendly and warm, just like the weather. We look forward to the next few weeks enjoying Spring in the south.

We are once again in New York. It really is a beautiful state, especially around the Finger Lakes region and the Adirondacks. Many of the activity directors have become our friends over the years as we spend time at their campuses each year. It is nice to go back to a place where we know that not only are the activities directors great people, but the students look forward to seeing us again and it feels like home.

One of the things that we like to do is to get feedback from the students. This is a great way to interact with them after they have just seen things that they cannot explain. We get to find out what they thought were the strongest pieces; the ones that really blew them away. We also get to find out what they enjoyed most about our show. Here are a couple quotes from students:

“I doubted you guys every step of the way, but you always proved me wrong. Good Job!!!” Sheria

“Great job! Second time around I still can’t figure it out.” Amanda

“More than the magic, I loved the interaction with the crowd.” Jess

Christian, Robin, Ralph, and Katalina

Robin and Ralph are icons at TC3. Between the two of them they have over 50 years of experience in student activities! They are great people and we always enjoy seeing them. Congratulations on the new student center. It is beautiful and we know it will be a success.

After seeing our Mind Tripping show, here is what one student said: “It was insane and amazing.” - Mysiah

You can’t stop Christian from entertaining! He absolutely loves it.

These photos are from before the main show and just look at the crowd he already has! This is his passion and it shows.

Christian and I had a wonderful time in Batesville Indiana! What a fantastic group of people! They were a super audience: nice, kind, and fun. We had 2 corporate shows and we had such a good time that Christian didn’t want the fun to end. He performed close-up magic after our stage show not only for our corporate clients, but for others enjoying a meal/drinks in the bar area.

Here is Alex, a senior in high school, performing a magic trick.

Last year we performed at his academy and when we came back this year, Alex was able to show Christian some magic tricks.

He started to learn magic because he loved the magic that Christian had performed for him a year ago. He was inspired and started to study and learn. Alex performed three tricks and did a great job. He took the time to learn and practice and it was good.

What Alex is also learning is that even if you do not go on to pursue magic as a profession, his ability to perform magic can be invaluable in the business world. For instance, what if you have a very important business meeting and a colleague is late. Alex could pull out a deck of cards and do some tricks to not only pass the time, but to get everyone in a good mood, have fun, and forget that the meeting is delayed. Magic is versatile and knowing a handful of tricks is always a good idea.

Congratulations to Alex!

We hope that you are as ready as we are to make 2008 a year to surpass our expectations! We are off to a great start as we did a show for Navy personnel at the Great Lakes Naval Station. They were an enthusiastic and very emotive crowd and it was a great way to kick off 2008. We will be doing some unique things this year and will keep you posted on all of them!

We want to wish everyone Happy Holidays and hope that you have a fantastic 2008!

Thank-you for all of your support throughout 2007 and together we will make 2008 even better.

We just finished a corporate event at the Mavris Arts and Event Center just a few blocks from downtown Indianapolis.

As you can see, it is beautiful with all wood floors, brick, and wood columns; it is a great atmosphere. It is a joy to walk into a building and be inspired by what you see. John Mavris is very passionate about his center and his life and it shows!

You can find out more about the Mavris Arts and Event Center by going to www.mavrisculturalcenter.net.

We were cleaning up after the show and there were some people still enjoying the evening, so Christian entertained them with some card tricks. They loved it! There is nothing more powerful than seeing magic happen right in front of your eyes. Brad, who you see in the picture, was blown away and his co-workers may have to watch him so that his brain doesn’t explode from analyzing too much!

We just finished our last college entertainment run for 2007. We spent the last week in New York and Connecticut. Unfortunately we hit the 1st big snow storm of the season and what would have normally been a 13 hour drive ended up being 17 hours. Thats the life of an entertainer. We are thankful we are home and are ready to jump into our wonderful corporate entertainment events for the holiday season.

We finished our shows with a bang. As usual, students were challenging us in their quest to understand the strange and unexplainable phenomenon going on in our show. The look of stunned faces never gets old. It is a good indication we are doing something amazing.

We often have a conversation about the psychology of watching magic. There are 2 types of people: those who have to figure out how something is done and those who delight in the illusions. Of course it is much more fun to perform for the first group than the second. But you have to be able to perform for all kinds of people and it does keep us on our toes!