Format
Mentalism and mind reading
There is nothing to catch. No cards, no coins, no box. A guest thinks of something they have never said out loud, and it comes back in their own words. Rooms go quiet for this the way they do for nothing else.
The register
For rooms where card tricks would land wrong
Some audiences are not there to be delighted. A board dinner, a partner meeting, a client evening for people who have been to every kind of event there is. Sleight of hand reads as entertainment in that room. Mentalism reads as something else, and it starts a conversation that runs all evening.
It is also the format that survives translation best. Nothing depends on a punchline, so a mixed international table follows all of it.
What it looks like
Three shapes it takes
At the table
Eight to twelve people, seated. He works one person at a time while the rest of the table watches someone they know react to something they cannot account for.
On stage
A twenty five minute set built around the whole room rather than one volunteer, finishing on something the audience decided together and he could not have known.
Woven through the evening
A prediction sealed and handed to your host at the start of the night, opened at the end. The evening spends four hours quietly building towards it.
The honest part
He does not claim to be psychic
This matters more with corporate audiences than any other. Nobody is asked to believe anything supernatural, and no one is told their thoughts were genuinely read. It is a performance, done well enough that knowing that does not help you.
That framing is also why it is safe in a professional setting. No fortune telling, no personal reading, no comment on anyone's private life, nothing that puts a guest in an uncomfortable position in front of colleagues.
The reel
Watching beats reading
Two and a half minutes from real rooms. Cut from bookings rather than filmed for a website.
The reel plays from Vimeo and only loads once you press play.
What you are booking
- Duration
- Twenty five minutes on stage, or two hours moving between tables
- Audience
- Eight at a table, up to several hundred from a stage
- Space required
- None for table work. A stage set follows the stage-show specification
- Language
- Performed in English or Dutch, and it travels well across mixed tables
- Content
- No fortune telling, no personal readings, no supernatural claim
- Travel
- Worldwide. Travel and accommodation are quoted separately from the fee
Questions worth asking before you book
Can it be combined with close-up magic?
Yes, and most evenings that book both get a better night for it. Close-up at the reception when the room is loud and moving, mentalism once people are seated and willing to be quiet. Two registers, not two acts.
Do you need information about our guests beforehand?
No, and be suspicious of any performer who asks for it. Nothing in the set depends on briefing notes, guest lists or social media research.
What if someone in the room is determined to expose it?
There is usually one, and they are welcome. The material is built to be examined by exactly that person, which is why he prefers them at the front.
From the floor
What the format looks like in a room
Photographs from real bookings rather than a studio. The rooms differ; the distance to the nearest guest does not.
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At the table, leaning in -
Set for dinner, nobody in yet -
Dubai, during the reception -
A gala hall, seen from the back -
Black tie, and the middle left open
Talk it through
Tell him who is in the room and what the evening is for. Mentalism depends on that more than any other format, so the conversation happens before the quote.
Most enquiries are answered the same day.