UNIQUE ENTERTAINMENT FOR YOUR EVENT
Fantail works closely with the client from the first instant; discussing, creating and refining ideas for all performance and conceptual aspects of an event.
We won’t send you down aisles of acts to fill their your own shopping baskets!
Emma meticulously selects or designs the best acts for the event. She choreographs the flow; ensuring cohesion, aesthetically and physically, creating a uniquely theatrical and entertaining experience. Emma is constantly inspired by the ever higher skill-level of circus, street acrobats, dance etc, and will always source the freshest acts for your event. Fantail look forward to discussing your ideas. Contact us now
Festivals
Fantail will advise on how to add those extra, special layers and magic to your Festival, whether it’s 3-day out-of-town weekend, a city arts festival, a long-established event needing a boost or a brand new boutique festival wanting to include performing arts. Performance, walkabout/meet&greet characters, circus sideshows.. this is what we specialise in. Emma has seen Festivals transform from ‘just’ a music event, to becoming memorable, unique and multi-faceted by diversifying the way in which these large scale events entertain and engage their audience and guests.
Corporate parties
Fantail works to highlight and promote your brand/product using performance and visual aesthetics. Emma will also help you celebrate your clients and staff by making your parties unforgettable and fun!
Clubnights
Fantail understands the rhythm and flow of a nightclub. Emma loves to provide performers who work well in this environment and play to the energy of the crowd. Cyr wheel, trapeze, contortion, burlesque, boylesque, MC’s and dancers... animate your night and get the dancfloor buzzing!
Private parties and events
Fantail works closely with clients, tailoring unique entertainment and concept creation for all types of venues and events, using only the most professional and talented of acts. Emma is sensitive to the requirements of security and privacy for our private clients.
Fantail - Collaboration and Programming
Fantail loves to conceptualise and produce event-specific performance with other talented performance designers.
Fantail curates performance programmes for Festivals in Aotearoa New Zealand. Working with you we will understand your audience demographic, budget and ethos, ensuring we research and source outstanding performance for your Festival season.
SPLORE Festival
A long-time partnership between Emma and Splore Festival of Music and Arts has seen its performing arts programme grow to become the most well-known of its kind in the country. This abundance of performance across the 3-day weekend has significantly contributed to the diverse, multiple layers that give Splore its unique richness.
Rhythm & Alps
Emma has worked with the 3 night New Year’s music Festival in NZ’s Cardrona Valley, since 2018. Understanding the demographic was key to creating content to heighten the crowd’s overall experience. Adding roving characters to interact with guests, and animating the DJ stage with pole dancers, aerialists, acrobats, and fire performers added an essential layer to the event.
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LUMA
A night-time midwinter Festival of Lights, in Queenstown’s Queen’s Gardens. An expansive exhibition of light sculptures and installations. Adding layers to this is music and performance, utilising the natural setting of landscaping, lake, park features and pine forest. Each year we design performance to enhance and animate the artworks, for a variable demographic.
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Lumify
2022 saw Fantail collaborate to animate the backstreets of downtown Queenstown, creating a deeply immersive experience within the narrow lanes. A creative team with a broad spectrum of talents, we combined soundscapes, video-mapping, lasers, hazers, characters, wall-dancers and artworks to build three ‘worlds’.
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The Ballyhoo and Freaxpo -
Marvels of Modern Medicine
In 2023 Emma worked to a ‘travelling circus’ brief. She transformed the Victorian band rotunda into the roustabouts’ domain. Draped in vintage red velvet salvaged from a Speigeltent, a commissioned multi-faceted mirror mobile and swags of rich Indian fabrics The Ballyhoo was a warmly inviting space into which a group of Irish musicians, a skilled magician and colourful characters invited public for a wild ‘gypsy’ dance, mind-bending magic and belly-laughs with the roustabouts.
In the ‘Light Circ’ zone, Emma commissioned and collaborated with performer/artist Paul Klaas to create a freakshow of modern-day mutants. These included the Unbelievable Untattooed Man, Balloon Lips and Tek-Nek. Freaxpo- Marvels of Modern Medicine- A highly engaging 15 min show with a humorous message.
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