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AcroBack’s Shane Geraghty is now based in Los Angeles. We’re now able to provide regional talent and performance design services from both coasts to bring you our incomparable services with increased cost effectiveness.

AcroBack’s in-house tumbling team for the Knicks completed another successful season in the Garden, and capped it off by winning the fan’s appreciation vote for best entertainment!!!

http://www.nba.com/knicks/entertainment/acroback.html

AcroBack’s Head Video Designer, Casey Geraghty was recently hired by Direct TV to head their web-video launch for “The Dan Patrick Show”. Now subscribers to www.dpshowdirect.com can watch the stars of their favorite sports show behind the scenes. In addition to shooting and editing content for their website, Casey has created multiple advertisements for the show which aired on Direct TV. One of which can be seen here: http://vimeo.com/10258198

AcroBack teamed up with CSI (www.csi-dc.com) to provide Bouncing Bartenders dressed in “Miami White” for L’Oreal to flip cocktails and heighten the fun at a mansion party on Star Island in South Beach.

At Acroback Productions we aim to please, so when the request came in for “a few of her favorite things” we were on it. With Rent and Magical Quick Change Artists on her wish list we arranged for two of the original cast members of Rent for a mini concert and brought in from London the Quick Change Duo featured on “Britain’s Got Talent.” It was a very Happy Birthday Party.

What’s the best way to atmospherically fill a space as fantastic as Cipriani 42nd Street with one person? Mirror Man’s 5,000 glass mirrors contorting in the air! Once again, Cipriani’s Star Group Productions hit Mirror Man with stellar lighting giving the Motorola event an extra punch to keep the guests abuzz long after his descent.

2010 came in to the Belterra Casino with constant performances leading up to the countdown by Acroback Productions’ Mirror Man, Stilted Creatures, Contortionist, Hula Hoop Artist and Jugglers. We are thrilled to be continuing our relationship with The Belterra.

Special Events Magazine
Acroback was thrilled to be featured as a unique way to “Shake Up The Service” with our Bouncing Bartenders in Special Events Magazine. Special thanks to Kelley Gillespie of CSI:

If martinis are best shaken not stirred, then what must a “flipped” martini taste like? According to Gillespie, success. Her “bouncing bartenders” take the cocktail to new heights — literally. Shakers in hand, acrobatic bartenders flip head over heels to mix drinks, blending beverages with entertainment. “The [acrobats] play off each other, and move to the front of the bar to entertain the guests, who are absolutely mesmerized by the show,” she says.

Acroback Productions was proud to be the “go to” company to provide the performance concepts for the re-launch to the Special Events Industry of the Hilton New York’s redesigned Ballrooms. With a 1960s “Back in Vogue” themed invite, guests first encounter were a pair of Jackie O styled “Elevator Girls” giving character and Hilton facts. Once in the Ballrooms, guests were treated to our Bouncing Bartenders, Mirror Man, and the new stilted “Antoinettes” complete with accompanying accompaniment.

What better way to make a dramatic entry into a dramatic space such as the Borgata ballroom for a holiday gala than with the Acroback Human Mobile? The doors opened to an elegant decor complete with floral centerpieces rigged off mini-mini-motorized mobiles on each table. Awestruck guests passed under the Mobilists, marveling at the sculptural spectacle of performance precision.

World renowned event designer Jerry Sibal’s book launch of “An Event to Remember” provided an atmosphere of elegance for the installation performance artistry of Acroback. Mirror Man sent beams of contorted welcoming light to guests upon entrance, our featured act Fabricist captivated the crowd midway through, and the magnificence of The Human Mobile capped an evening of grandeur at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan. It was a celebration of beautiful things and very special events.

(Photography by: www.matthewjwagner.com)

Once again, Acroback Productions was a proud sponsor of the Bizbash Expo Tradeshow at the Javits Center. Mirror Man greeted attendees front and center as our latest features walked the floor: Snowy Sphere Ballerina, Stilted China Doll, Grasshoppers/Jumping Juniper (LED lights and Jingle Bells for Christmas), and the AcroPas de Deux.

Acroback’s Mini Mobile took center stage at Terminal 5 in New York for the annual Booo-mer Bash Refi Rock Halloween Party. This unique aerial performance installation took place in between band sets and the final counterweight was customized for sponsorship branding. The Boomer Esiason Foundation heightens awareness, educates and improves the quality of life for those affected by cystic fibrosis, while providing financial support to research aimed at finding a cure.

Photography: © 2009 Edmond H Lee/www.edmondhlee.com

International Fitness Superstar JB Berns brought in Acroback Productions to dramatically physicalize his teachings for the launch of his book “Do It or Age Quickly.” Male and Female human statues impressed guests with both their stillness and chiseled definition while contortionists and hand balancers exemplified the power of human potential.

The opening celebration for the world’s largest domed stadium sparkled just a little bit brighter with the addition of Mirror Man’s 5,000 beams of light.

Acroback’s Jonathan Nosan and Joseph Putignano were pleased to provide Residence Inn with just the right acrobatic flair for their new print and internet campaign.

For the Fifth Season in a row Acroback continues to rock Madison Square Garden’s New York Knicks fans with their high flying on court choreographed tumbling.

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The Acroback Video Design team has been hired by CrossFit Fitness to shoot, edit and produce instructional videos, athlete profiles, and contribute media to the CrossFit online journal.

http://www.crossfit.com

Acroback assisted with casting for Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Vincent Laforet’s Video ‘Nocturne’ which features the use of the new Canon EOS -1D Mark IV in all ambient lighting. Acroback’s Luke Vexler stars in the video.

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Acroback was a proud recipient together with Pink Inc. of the IFAI Outstanding Achievement Award for the “Verve” Opening Ceremony at the General Session of The Special Event Tradeshow in San Diego. IFAI (Industrial Fabrics Association International) represents the entire specialty fabrics/technical textiles industry and we were honored to have our LED Butterfly collaboration recognized by this prestigious organization.

Content Award – Niles Creative Group
The Comcast Experience

We are pleased to be part of the award winning content of “The Comcast Experience”: Comcast Center’s 10 million pixel display in Philadelphia featuring Acroback’s Human Mobile, aerialists, acrobats, stunts, trampolinists, rollerbladers and physical actors . Covering an area of over 2100 square feet and using four-millimeter LED lights, the media wall exhibits a giant, seamless collection of Acroback at work and play in five times the resolution of HD television.

Acroback Productions dove head first into summer making a splash at the opening of the W Hotel in Ft. Lauderdale. Performances were designed specific to the spectacular pool and the submerged stage allowed our Aquabats to breakdance, flip and hand balance seemingly on the water’s surface while contortionists floated about in our inflatable spheres. Dramatic lighting and a dynamic drumming soundtrack created an energetic and innovative opening night celebration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKk6G_K_4E4

Acroback Productions was honored to once again perform at the annual Health Corps Gala, this year entitled the Green Garden Gala held in the Wintergarden of the World Financial Center. The dramatic descending stairway found our massive stilted LED Butterfly and Jumping Stilted “Grasshopper” in his couture grass suit. High above two aerialists on ropes provided an installation of “vine climbing” aerialists greeting the guests down below. Health Corps is a proactive health movement founded by Dr. Mehmet Oz, cardiac surgeon, best-selling author, and Health Expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, to help stem the crisis of child obesity through school-based health education and mentoring, as well as community events and outreach to underserved populations.

http://www.healthcorps.org/

Few people really understand the extent to which we bend of backwards to provide you with the best possible customer service. Actually, anyone who reads Business Week is aware and may have noticed Acroback’s Jonathan Nosan on the cover. All in a day’s work.

We were pleased to be part of the process in bringing Spiderman to Broadway. In order to get an idea of how the dancers and actors would look as future web-slingers, Acroback was consulted in creating a “fly rig,” and assisted with the evaluation of the performers, at our training home of the Field House at Chelsea Piers.

Our two towering LED Butterflies lit up the night for The Garden Comes Alive gala at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Guests were awestruck by the graceful stilted movement while manipulating the massive glowing wings. In addition to celebrating 150 years as the nation’s oldest botanical garden, the evening highlighted their work done around the world to research plants and help inhabitants in the poorest countries of the world conserve resources and protect plants.

The opening night party of Miami’s Fashion Week at the Eden Rock Hotel was a mesh of rock ‘n’ roll-meets-Versaille and what better to rock the event than a Grinder with Full Metal Corset. On the Versaille front was the brilliant debut of our Aria singing stilted operatic songbird complete with helium head dress.

Acroback provided 3 high-flying Acroback Bouncers as featured and atmospheric performers for their annual High-Rollers Gala.

Acroback was proud to be the half time entertainment for the 2009 SNY Invitational: an annual high school basketball tournament at New York University raising funds for the participating schools. It was great to bring our Jumping Boot artists, tumblers and break dancers normally seen at Madison Square Garden to the next generation of NBA players.

The pink sands of Bermuda welcomed Acroback Productions as we exhibited our Original Designs to the island. Mirror Man sculpturally fit in to the branches of the trees creating a contorted natural vignette. Our stilted LED Butterfly welcomed guests as they made their way through to the lagoon where our Aquabat Contortionist casually performed floating in the lagoon. The Acroback Bouncer raised and flipped the guests spirits as always.

We are pleased to be continuing our creative work with photographer Vincent Laforet. When Canon asked Vincent for exciting subjects to shoot for a workshop, the call came to Acroback. We are thrilled to continue this artistic relationship and push the limits of capturing movement.

http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/

Acroback’s Tumblers were proud to participate in the Wendy Hilliard Gala. The Wendy Hilliard Foundation, based in Brooklyn, has served over 5,000 inner-city youth to date providing free weekly gymnastics classes, summer gymnastics programs, a competitive rhythmic gymnastics team, and annual girls and women sports clinics.

http://www.wendyontheweb.org/

Acroback Goes Green in San Diego with the premier of The Grass Hoppers–our contribution to Greening the Special Event Market with the fashionable flipping flair of our Jumping Boot artists in Grass Business Suits! Together with Pink Inc., we conceived, created, and choreographed the Opening Session Show by physicalizing “Verve” through the Grass Hoppers, LED Butterflies (Pink Inc Collaboration), acrobats and costumed characters.

Acroback was proud to be called in to provide the circus elements for Britney Spear’s circus themed birthday celebration, tying in with the release of her new album “Circus.” Stilt Walkers, Fire Breathers, Fire Jugglers set the red carpet on fire (figuratively), while inside a Contortionist and Model handling a 15 foot Albino Python allowed great shots for “ET” and “The Insider.”

http://www.theinsider.com/news/1398815_Britney_s_Birthday_Party_The_Venue

We are thrilled to be continuing our work with photographer Vincent Laforet. The previous newsletter shared his amazing Acroback Parkour still shots and here you can see our work together in video featuring a new Cannon EOS 5D MKII. The three day shoot took Acroback through the streets of New York with Parkour running off the city walls, aerialists dropping into the sea of pedestrians, and the Mirror Men adding to the night illumination of Times Square.

http://vincentlaforet.smugmug.com/gallery/6042742_wZKiA#377930419_dgxvY

We are pleased to present our new LED Butterflies: a design and performance collaboration with Pink Inc. Each Butterfly has a 15 foot wingspan and luminescent light panels brightly projecting light around the delicate moire fabricated wings. The Butterflies can be presented on the ground, on stilts or as aerial installations.

http://www.bizbash.com/newyork/content/editorial/e13570.php

The Acroback Knicks Tumblers were noted by Newsday as the Number One reason to attend a Knicks game last year. This year marks our 4th Season at Madison Square Garden providing In-Game Sports Entertainment and we hope to share our #1 performance ranking with a winning season.

http://www.nba.com/knicks/news/acroback.html

The Acroback Bouncers wowed the crowd in Washington DC at Building Industries’ annual gala raising funds for local charities in the National Capital Area.

Our 15th Event working together with Louis Vuitton took Jonathan Nosan to Dalian China for the opening celebration of the new boutique. The In-Store reception found a well-suited guest (Nosan) suddenly pop onto a podium and “Cocktail Contort.” Later he took to the air as Mirror Man as Dalian danced into the night.

Acroback brought a high level of artistry to Anadarko’s Winter Gala in Houston. Our Human Mobile filled the 300 foot atrium with three Mobilists providing graceful snow flurries of paper snowflakes. A custom made 5 foot fabric Snowflake by Pink Inc counterbalanced the entire installation. Mirror Man in the Air performed as a live, radiant ornament within a fantastic Christmas tree, and our Winter Nymphs contorted within a Human Snow Globe throughout the evening

The opening of the Shanghai Richemont Twin Villas, in collaboration with Dunhill, sought a dynamic Twin performance and the Tap Twins were the perfect fit. Their high energy, perfectly synchronized Tap and Hip Hop performances physicalized the strength and artistry of the Twin Villas.

In celebration of the annual staff party for Chanel, we were pleased to provide our team of 4 Percussive Drummer/Dancers.

Thanksgiving was spent parading down Broadway on a massive rhinoceros sponsored by Ecko. The crowds went wild as we repelled and aerially danced our way down the parade route.

We were pleased to be selected by the School of Visual Arts to provide the Circus/Sideshow arts to their Holiday Celebration. Two stages were filled through the night with Contortionists, Fire jugglers, and Sword Swallowing/Sideshow feats. The evening culminated with a very hot featured act of a fire eating couple that blew the crowd away.

Having provided artists for Andrew Buckler’s fashion shows in Bryant Park, we were pleased to be part of his fundraiser for GMHC. Mirror Man and Two Aerialists performed with Deborah Harry to aid the community and usher in the Holiday Season.

Diesel celebrated their 30th Birthday in 17 cities around the globe with a Rock and Roll Circus. New York City/Brooklyn was selected as the U.S. city and Diesel chose Acroback to provide the Circus elements to the Rock and Roll of MIA, NERD, Chaka Kahn and many many more. The 36,000 square foot tent provided a perfect setting for the vintage circus styling– choreographed aerial acts of 6 ladies on ropes, 4 men on aerial straps and a constant flow of contortionists, jugglers, fire breathers, jumping boot artists, little people and balancing acts keeping the 6,500 guests well entertained into the night.

http://www.bizbash.com/newyork/content/editorial/e12997.php

Acroback has a permanent presence in Philadelphia featuring The Human Mobile, aerialists, acrobats, stunts, trampolinists, rollerbladers and physical actors on the largest four-millimeter LED screen in the world.

Spanning 83.3 feet wide by 25.4 feet high, the 2,100 square-foot video wall offers 10 million pixels of clarity to exhibit a massive collection of Acroback at work and play in 5 times the resolution of HD television.

http://www.studiodaily.com/studiomonthly/currentissue/9863.html

American Photo Magazine recognized Mr. Laforet as one of the “100 Most Influential People in Photography” and Acroback’s Parkour team piqued his eye and interest. A collaborative project ensued finding light, space and frozen time captured between his images and our movement. His images have appeared in Vanity Fair, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated and stay on the lookout for future creative projects together.

http://www.vincentlaforet.com/

Acroback’s Video Design, Parkour, and Aerial Wall Dance Teams were pleased to be incorporated into Mars Productions production of Sun Microsystem’s Global Conference in Washington DC. Our Video Design Team produced the video shoot which was then edited with keypoints and choreographic cues for live integration with the stage performance. The interaction of 4 Parkour Performers, 4 Wall Dancing Aerialists, and 8 Percussionists with the 100 foot video screen action created a dynamic, unique, and innovative presentation fitting Sun’s corporate message.

Acroback provided both models for New York Magazine’s Fashion editorial “Leaps and Bounds” by the iconic photographer Rodney Smith.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=acroback%20smith&w=all&s=int

Two nights of entertainment were provided by Acroback satisfying thousands of Cincinnati Insurance sellers. The first night featured our LED Hula Hoop, LED Jugglers and Bounce Jumping Stilt Team as pre-show to an arena concert, then an Olympics themed evening was highlighted by 6 Greek styled Acro Statues and two Mirror Men in the Air.

Under the towering red neon letters of the Empire Hotel, the Mirror Men took Manhattan to launch Ultimat Vodka–characterized by its handblown crystal decanter and physicalized by the shimmer of Acroback.

The Acroback Jumping Boot Team and world class Flair Bartenders took this outdoor event by storm with the theme of creativity and innovation.

Acroback is pleased to announce the launch of it’s Video Design Team. Services range from the shooting of raw and stock footage to edited corporate videos, gala montages, and custom reels. We look forward to working together to produce your project with upmost quality and an eye for design.

Acroback was proud to christen the ground and air space of New York’s Best New Venue as awarded by Bizbash. Coinciding with the Bizbash Event Style Show’s opening night, guests were greeted by the stilted Rosy Thorns, Mirror Man contorting on our new rotating podium, and Two Mini Mobiles providing both aerial performance art and custom branded aerial decor.

Dr. Mehmet Oz’s foundation, educating and empowering American youth to make healthy choices, chose Acroback to fill the Hammerstein Ballroom for the gala’s “Enchanted Garden” theme. Our Human Mobile provided a dramatic aerial installation as guests entered the room, revealing from the floating blue “Fairy Pods” our Faerialists who initiated the night’s magic, grace and beauty.

Bit 9, a company creating computer software to prevent data leakage and protect against unauthorized software usage, utilized the power of Acroback’s Parkour and Video Production Team for this high energy mini-movie in their tradeshow booth. Our Parkour Team physicalized their keypoints of gaining control, strength, flexibility, and running a clean system.

(Picture Courtesy of Theresa Ortolani – www.theresaortolani.com)

Mirror Man was proud to start the show off on the rotating podium contorting, hand balancing, and presenting the first award–the “Dazzle” message of the night was sparklingly conveyed.

Popularly known as the Warhol of Japan, Acroback’s Mirror Men on rotating podium were selected as the installation performance at the after party celebrating the opening of the Murakami retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

To commemorate the 80th Anniversary of Liberty Travel and the Globus Family of Brands, Acroback created a one day guerilla marketing campaign with a female contortionist. Styled as a chic tourist, our artist had cash spurting from her seams to illustrate how easy it is to stretch the travel dollar with Liberty Travel.

One year in preparation and creation went into this Charleston South Carolina Spectacle. Guests entered through the 25 foot curtained dress of an avant garde accordionist, greeted by her stilted and stunted attendants. Immediately up the stairs a framed gloved hand directed guests upwards where they encountered a behind the scenes peek of the circus/carnival to come. Mirror Man had the honor of presenting Margaret Ann to her guests on the rotating podium and the rest of the night was filled with Stilt Creatures, Contortionists, Aerialists on Chaindelier, Snake Handlers of Green Burmese Pythons, Mirror Man in the Air and Grinder Girl for dessert. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARGARET ANN!

To illustrate the merger of Wachovia and A.G. Edwards and the trust required for success, Acroback provided the talent coordination, rigging, and equipment rental for this Print Ad campaign, shown here from the New York Times.

Acroback premiered their Two Man Contortion Duet at the opening night party of the museum’s new “Sex in Design” exhibit, where Mirror Man was also spotted greeting guests in his statuesque, contorting way…

Celebrating all things radiant, strong and graceful–Mirror Man was honored to be the centerpiece jewel for the Rodeo Drive store opening.

Acroback was proud to be a sponsor of The Special Event and share booth space with Pink Inc. We provided Jumping Boot Artists and Mirror Men to the Gala Awards and Celebration Dinner filling three locations with high energy acrobatics and pole perched human disco balls.

Acroback choreographed a 6 person Tumble Track performance, custom built into the set design, for the launch of this pharmaceutical company’s new nasal spray. We were pleased to be able to donate our Tumble Track to a local gymnastics center in Houston after the event.

Our Parkour team was enlisted to create a high energy dynamic to a corporate performance in Dallas of EDS–a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients.

Acroback coordinated the equipment rentals and safety for the Steve Nash (NBA MVP) Got Milk? Ad.

http://youtu.be/UKWtxNXCp7g

Whampoa Shopping Center brought our 30 minute B-Bounce show to Hong Kong for two weeks, filling the streets with the high energy of 4 Acroback Bouncers/Inflatable Tumble Track flippers, 4 Knicks City Dancers and the World Champion Scratch Disc Jockey, DJ Excess.

Acroback cast and directed this 8 page editorial for Paper Magazine, photographed by Sherri O’Connor.

The Acroback Bouncers optimized the physical branding of “Spring! by Dannon” Natural Spring Water utilizing “Spring!” stilts to create a media and live performance tour of 20 shopping centers and 10 retail sites throughout the United States.

Acroback was responsible for choreography, music, and costuming which was designed and customized to the brand image. The “Dannon Spring! Team” performance was combined with scripted key product messages spoken by the performers who were specifically cast with media relations experience.

Acroback, teamed with a PR firm, bounced Dannon’s product to the attention of 45 newspapers nationwide and sprang into 10 in-studio television appearances reaching over 2 million viewers.

Audi gave Acroback the new Gecko logo for inspiration to create a performance experience emphasizing the carmaker’s new stealth and streamlined branding.

Acroback contracted talent from New York and China, with production from Hong Kong, to create the 12 minute performance utilizing three sections of the 10,000 square foot space. Three acts were chosen to reflect three qualities of the brand: Agility/Pole Climbing, Grace of Design/Contortion Hand Balancing, and Control/Hoop Diving. Each performance piece occurred in a separate section of the space encouraging spectators to interact with the 12 cars while viewing the Audi Geckos.

Acroback was responsible for the costume design and creation by a Broadway costume shop as well as the soundtrack which combined the Amazon and Autobahn while reflecting the moods of the three performance sections.

The underlying factor of Acroback’s Audi performance was “fun,” and the audience reaction provided 100% client satisfaction. Other car makers had acts, but only Audi had the physical branding of the performance to the product which is the Acroback difference.

Franck Muller is known as the Master of Complications so we had to live up to the intricacies, quirkiness, and beauty of his work.

Assembling a cast of 15 artists from New York, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles we created three pieces for the night. The Entry of Guests was met by percussionists perched 20 feet in the air as two Etherealists slowly flew 60 feet overhead along zip lines which traversed the 50′ x 30′ space.

The Second piece utilized the Acroback Human Mobile, deconstructed with custom fabricated gears attached to the trussing to create the Watch Gears opening choreography. Iconic Franck Muller watch faces were silk screened on each side of spandex coverings for the Mobile apparatus and the Mobilists provided arms and legs to create human Hands of the Watch during the ascent. Once the Geared Human Watches were afloat in the three sections of the room the covers unzipped revealing the Mobilists and Mirror Man provided a center of sparkle for which Muller is famous.

Four Stompercussionists, break dancers, and five Bungee Trapezists filled the cavernous space to create the evening’s dynamic finale for the Master of Complications.

Acroback cast and directed this physical branding campaign photographed by Dennis Degnan.

Acroback was pleased to be part of Twyla Tharp’s musical featuring the music and lyrics of Bob Dylan, from San Diego’s Old Globe Theater to the Brooks Atkinson Theater on Broadway. Acroback provided Circus Consultation, Actor Training (tumbling, trampoline, contortion, unicycling, stilt dancing, slack rope walking, juggling), Equipment Rental/ Fabrication, and Specialty Rigging.

Acroback provided the La Jolla Playhouse production of “The Wiz” with Actor Training on Jumping Stilts and Stunt Choreography under Des McAnuff’s direction.