Hire a magician in Dubai

Send your date, venue and rough guest numbers. James replies with what suits the room and holds the date while you decide.

What happens when you get in touch

No booking form that disappears into a diary. A conversation about your room, then a recommendation.

What to send in your first message

Five things, and he can quote from them without a second email.

How a booking gets confirmed

Four steps, and none of them needs a meeting.

How quickly you will hear back

Within a working day, from James rather than an assistant.

Enquiries are answered personally. If your date is already booked he will say so immediately rather than leaving you waiting, and where he can he will suggest another performer worth speaking to. If the format you have asked about is wrong for your guest numbers, he will say that too. Walk-around magic for 300 guests means most of your room watches other people get it. Better to hear that now than after you sign.

Where James travels

Dubai is home. The work is not.

James is based in Dubai and performs across the Emirates, most often in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. He works regularly across the Gulf, in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and has performed in nine countries in total, including regular work in the UK for FTI Consulting over five years. Travel outside the Emirates is quoted with the booking rather than added afterwards, so the figure you put in your budget is the figure you pay. For remote or split audiences, the virtual show reaches every office at once with no travel at all.

Which format your numbers point to

Guest numbers settle this faster than budget does, so here is the honest map.

Up to 50 guests seated for dinner, the Platinum Show is built for that exact room and every person is close enough to take part. Between 50 and 300 with a stage and a speech slot, stage mentalism is your headline act. A standing reception of any size wants walk-around magic, which properly covers about 120 to 150 guests in 90 minutes. Above that, take both, because one performer cannot reach 300 standing guests in an hour and a half and a guest who watched other tables get the magic feels worse than one who never knew it happened. If your audience is remote or split across offices, the virtual show reaches all of them at once.

The three mistakes people make when booking

Each one costs money. Each one is fixable in a single short call.

Booking direct or through an agency

Both work, and it is worth knowing what changes.

James is represented by Motivate Talent, so if your company already books through an agency the work can go that route and your procurement process stays intact. Booking him directly means you speak to the person performing rather than to a booker, which usually gets a straighter answer about whether your format is right. The show and the price are the same either way. Need a supplier on an approved list? Say so in your first message and James will name the quicker route.

What James needs from your venue

Almost nothing, and it is worth telling your coordinator early so nobody plans around a problem that does not exist.

Walk-around magic needs no power, no sound, no lighting and no rehearsal. If there is a room and there are people standing in it, the act works, which is why it survives terraces, yacht decks and conference foyers. A stage set needs a microphone, a clear area of roughly three metres by two, and lighting that keeps the audience visible rather than in darkness. No stage build, no backdrop and no technical rehearsal, so it can follow a dinner service without a room turn. James sends a single page to your AV team ahead of the day covering all of it.