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Tento fanning a deck of cards with a look of surprise
Street performer and magician

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Quick patter that pulls inchildren and adults alike

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Based in Chiba and performing across Japan. His strength is a warm variety magic show carried by quick patter. Built around a street-performance style of magic that is rare in the trade, he mixes juggling, balloon art and sound acts into a single programme.

He discovered street performance at the age of six and entered the world of entertainment. Set on becoming a performer, he turned professional the moment he left high school. The magic that is now at the centre of his act is something he found in his school years.

He has worked at hotels, restaurants, theme parks, shopping centres, schools, in the media, at street performance festivals and at magic bars. On some occasions he has taken on the planning and running of the event itself. It is warm-hearted work that children enjoy and adults enjoy with them.

He builds the programme only after hearing the purpose of the event, the conditions of the venue and who the audience will be. Is it footfall you want, or movement around the site, or longer dwell time, or a sense of the whole room together? Change the aim and the same act is put together differently. He works within the venue's constraints and the running order, so whoever is running the day is not left carrying more.

STYLE

How he can appear

With a stage or without one, indoors or out.

Stage formatFacing the room

Performing from a stage or platform to the whole room. It suits seated events: ceremonies, general meetings and hall events.

RovingMoving the crowd

Stopping people in a walkway or a square and performing with a ring of onlookers. It suits places where people are moving: shopping centres, theme parks and outdoor festivals.

Tento in a striped waistcoat with juggling clubs over his shoulder
Juggling. In street-performance bookings he mixes in acts using props.
Tento holding oversized red scissors and a rubber chicken
A booking for children, where he brings more of the props that get a laugh.
Tento in a black suit with his arms folded
For ceremonies and adult audiences he comes in different costume.

What they can do

Street-style magic Juggling Balloon art Sound act Patter Stage format Roving Indoors or outdoors Event planning and operation
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Best suited to

For anything not listed here, tell us about the event and we will advise.

ON SITE

From past bookings

Hotel banquet rooms, hall stages, outdoor street performance festivals and an amusement park. All photographs are from actual bookings.

Tento performing from a hotel banquet platform to guests at round tables
On the platform in a hotel banquet room, performing to every guest at the round tables.
Tento showing cards to seated guests as he moves between banquet tables
During the conversation at the same event, moving between tables and performing up close.
Tento standing before a crowd filling the barrier at an outdoor street performance festival
An outdoor street performance festival, with the crowd packed around the inside of the barrier.
Tento holding up an oversized playing card on a hall stage
A hall stage. For a seated audience he chooses acts big enough to read from the back row.
Tento performing surrounded by people on benches in an amusement park square
An open square in an amusement park, where passers-by stop and form a ring.
Tento performing under a large tree to families seated on the ground
An outdoor festival, performing right in front of children sitting in the shade.
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