Transparency
45 minutes. That's what the room sees.
"That's a lot of money for 45 minutes."
It's a fair reaction, in its own way: divide the fee by the minutes the performer spends in front of the room and you get an hourly rate that sounds absurd.The problem is the divisor.
A 45-minute performance takes a full day out of a performer's calendar and several years out of their life.Put your own event in below and see what that day is made of.
See the whole dayA performer's day, as a wave
Put your own event in.Each column is as wide as it is long, and the green peak is the only part the room sees.
Change the location, the time or the number of entries — the day redraws as you go.
- The moment — what you see
- Driving
- Getting ready
- Loading / changing
- Break
- Commute
What the room sees
45 min
the performance itself
The performer's day (office → office)
8h 3min
12.7× longer than the part you see
What the room sees
The moment
The entrance that cuts every conversation in half, the reaction in the front row, the phones going up, the photos in the team's group chat the next morning.
An entry, not an hour
That's the unit we price by.For a high-intensity dance set it runs shorter, 20 to 30 minutes: an elaborate costume and a heavy helmet ask a lot of the performer, and a short flawless moment beats a long diluted one.
The day of the event, from the top
Those 45 minutes are the last thing that happens. Before them, on the same day:
The costume leaves storage.
Checked, loaded, transported.Some costumes don't fit in an ordinary car.
Someone arrives before everyone else
and looks at the room: where the entrance is, how high the ceiling is, where the power outlet is, where a performer on three-metre stilts cannot pass.
The performer gets ready.
Make-up, costume, testing the microphone or the lights built into the suit.With the large costumes, getting dressed is not a one-person operation.
Then comes the waiting.
Event schedules almost always slip, and the performer stays in costume, ready to go, until the real time arrives rather than the one on the run sheet.
The entries happen.
Usually two: our minimum is two entries per performer in Bucharest and three elsewhere in the country, with a break between them.
Everything is packed up.
And outside Bucharest, add the drive there and back.
Add it up and you have a working day, sometimes one with a night in it.Out of it, 45 minutes are visible.
What doesn't fit into that day
The rest is older than the day of the event.Below the moment on stage sit layers nobody counts — and none of them happen on the day, or by the performer.
The working day 8h 3min
Driving, getting ready, waiting, loading — the whole day above.
Cleaning, checks & repairs
After every outing: costumes cleaned, LED gear checked, repaired or recharged.Done midweek, by colleagues.
Design & workshop production
Ours comes out of our own workshop in Bucharest: cut, sewn, repaired after every outing, sometimes built from scratch for a brief.
Rehearsals & choreography
Our performers train weekly, not before an event.Stilts on Wednesdays, juggling and fire on Fridays.That's why the third entry has the same energy as the first — and why nobody falls.
18 years of craft
They aren't a sales argument.They're the reason we know what happens when the DJ starts the music over the performance, when the room holds 200 more people than the brief said, or when rain moves the whole event indoors an hour beforehand.These aren't hypotheticals.They were last Tuesday.
Why this matters to your budget
What you're buying isn't the performer's time.It's the odds that the evening turns out memorable — the good kind of memorable, not the other one.
A price far below market is made by cutting exactly from the list above
Nobody comes to see the room beforehand, the costume is rented or imported and nobody checked it since its last outing, the performer sees it for the first time on the day.That isn't a saving, it's a risk moved from them to you — and you're the one who answers for it the next morning.
What you're actually paying for: a day out of a performer's calendar, the costume behind them, the people who got them there, and the years spent learning what to do when something goes off plan.The 45 minutes are the part you can see.
Now that you know what's behind it, let's build your moment
Browse the acts, add them to a list and send it over.It's not an order — it's how a quote starts.