Orlando processes more corporate delegates than almost any American city, which means the average attendee has seen the standard evening programme many times over. Matteo Cammisa performs close-up magic and mentalism at Orlando conferences, incentive trips and corporate galas — formats that need no stage, sound or runtime.
The welcome reception. Delegates arrive across a two-hour window, know two people each, and stand in company-shaped clusters. No scheduled act can reach a crowd that assembles gradually; a performer moving through it can.
Session breaks. Fifteen minutes, phones out, attention dropping session by session across a three-day agenda. This is the cheapest available intervention in the whole programme and it is almost always left empty.
The gala dinner. Table to table between courses, so the awards, the speeches and the auction keep every minute they were allocated. Covered in depth on the gala dinner page.
The incentive-trip evening. Smaller group, higher expectation, and a client that chose Orlando specifically to give people something. This is where a mentalism set piece tends to be booked rather than close-up alone.
Matteo moves through the room during drinks or dinner and performs for small groups at a time. No stage, no microphone, no soundcheck — the whole show happens at arm's length. Typically booked from 30 minutes to two hours, sized to the cocktail hour or the dinner it covers.
From $3,500
A seated, focused piece for the full room, built around thought, choice and influence rather than props. Runs 20 to 30 minutes and works as the pivot between dinner and the rest of the evening.
From $4,000
A full theatrical set for a seated audience, with close-up work projected live to screen where the room is large enough to need it.
On request
It does not ask for runtime. Because it works in the intervals that already exist, it is not competing with the agenda — which is why it tends to remain on the sheet when the programme is cut.
It cannot delay anything. No stage build, no audio, no lighting cue, no rehearsal. In a building where the AV schedule is the critical path and rooms turn several times a day, that matters more than it sounds.
It is measurable in the only way that counts at a conference: what delegates are talking about at the next session.
Matteo Cammisa is a member of The Magic Circle in London, of FISM — the international federation of magic societies — and of the Society of American Magicians. Twenty-two years of performing, more than 1,500 events, over 30 countries.
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Something that works in the gaps rather than in the agenda. Orlando programmes are dense and the AV schedule is usually the constraint, so the entertainment that survives planning is the kind that needs no stage, no soundcheck and no runtime. Close-up magic through the welcome reception and the session breaks is the most reliable version of that.
It is one of the more common bookings. Incentive groups are smaller, the expectation is higher, and the client has usually chosen the destination specifically to give people something. That is the setting where a seated mentalism piece for the whole group tends to be booked alongside close-up rather than instead of it.
Later than most things, because there is nothing to schedule. No stage build, no soundcheck and no changeover means it does not touch the AV timeline. The real constraint is availability of the date rather than the production plan.
Bookings start from $3,500. The figure moves with the format, the length of the evening, the number of guests and where in the world the event is. Fees are quoted per event rather than per hour, because what you are booking is presence across a window of the evening, not a block of stage time. Tell Matteo the date, the city and roughly how many guests, and you will have a firm figure within 24 hours.
For a specific date in high season, three to six months is comfortable. Shorter notice is often possible and worth asking about: dates open up, and Matteo holds a small amount of the calendar for late corporate bookings. The honest answer is that the date either exists or it does not, and one message settles it.
Send the date, the city and roughly how many guests. You will have availability and a firm figure within 24 hours.
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