Posts Tagged ‘performing tips’
KEH066: Educational Magic: Tips for an Engaging, Powerful Show
Educational Magic: Tips for an Engaging, Powerful Show We kick off Series 4 of the Kids Entertainer Podcast with no less than educational magic show master, Doug Scheer. In turns insightful and entertaining, this first part of his interview will inspire and encourage you not only to try your hand at school assembly performances and…
Read MoreKEH063: How to Win an Audience’s Attention
How to Win an Audience’s Attention Featured in this week’s podcast episode is the incredibly funny and award-winning entertainer John Kimmons. Here he shares how to win an audience’s attention, what his philosophy on entertaining is, and how he turned a race game into a brilliant routine that wins everybody over. Go click on that…
Read MoreThe #1 Way We Know to Create a Successful Show
Is there gold right under your nose? There probably is and you just can’t see it. Here is a simple exercise we are going to do. It’s simple but it’s probably one of the hardest things we’ll ever do. First, we have to honestly, hands on our heart, say that we have accepted a particular…
Read MoreKEH055: How to Entertain Different Audiences
How to Entertain Different Audiences: Performing Tips, Learning from Failure, and Many More Out from our Vault of Wisdom this week is a conversation filled to the brim with tips on how to entertain different audiences and how to grow from failure. In this episode, we talk with well-known family and corporate entertainer and lecturer…
Read MoreKEH054: How Important Are Props, Presentation Skills, and Personality in Kids Entertaining
How Important Are Props, Presentation Skills, and Personality in Kids Entertaining What makes a successful kids show and entertainer—the performer’s props, presentation skills, or personality? In this podcast episode, award-winning children’s entertainer and ventriloquist John Kimmons discusses all these three and more.
Read MoreHow to Control Your Nerves: Part 2
In my previous post about how to manage your pre-show jitters, I talked about shifting your focus to help you quiet your nerves. Now we’ll go into another tip that I’ve followed myself to gain more confidence. If you’re like me, this will sound familiar to you: You’ve worked on a trick, planned its first…
Read MoreKEH053: Lessons Learned from Decades of Performing
Lessons Learned from Decades of Performing: Tips and Insights from a Seasoned Children’s Entertainer In this episode in the Vault of Wisdom series, we share lessons that a long-time kids entertainer has learned from years of performing. Greg McMahan, an all-around professional entertainer who uses magic, comedy, balloon twisting, juggling, and clowning in his shows,…
Read MoreKEH052: How to Bond with Your Audience
How to Bond with Your Audience: Performing Tips for Kids and Family Entertainers Many children’s entertainers start out thinking it’s the magic tricks, the puppet handling skills, the balloon twisting designs that’s going to make them a stellar and successful performer. All those technical stuff are important—no doubt about that—but the KEY to being a…
Read MoreKEH051: Hospital Entertaining Tips for Children’s Entertainers
Hospital Entertaining Tips for Children’s Entertainers Hospital entertaining is rewarding—there’s no doubt about it—but it isn’t as simple as it sounds. From the condition of the child and his/her parents, to the almost constant coming and going of medical personnel, to the culture of the different wards, to sanitary precautions and hospital regulations, there’s actually…
Read MoreKEH047: How to Run a Super-Fun Kids Show
John Breeds – How to Run a Super-Fun Kids Show: Tips for Children’s Entertainers There’s nothing like a fun kids show to give children the time of their life. And to help you ensure that you run an amazing show that your young audiences will be babbling about even after the party, we offer you…
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