Wise Fool Productions

Let Wise Fool bring our eclectic touch of color to your event with our
award-winning visuals and internationally celebrated performers.

"Wise Fool New Mexico are a supremely unique, artistic, and talented group of professional performers that are sure to wow your audience. They provided an evening of awe-inspiring acrobatics, stilt-walking, juggling and tumbling in beautifully crafted costumes that blew our attendees away. I highly recommend Wise Fool for any event that dares to go beyond the conventional and step into the realm of extraordinary."
-Andrew S. Wolf, Senior Professional Development & Meetings Coordinator, AHDI / MTIA

Wise Fool Productions is the event-entertainment-for-hire branch of the non-profit organization Wise Fool New Mexico. We offer giant puppets and stilt walkers, original hands-on workshops for adults and children, interactive circus-style event entertainment, site- and event-specific spectacles, and more!

To see examples of our stilt costumes, giant puppets, and other acts please visit our photo gallery

Our custom, free-standing aerial rig travels with us and solves rigging limitations in both indoor and outdoor venues. The following is a list of performance options for your event:

greeting guests and walk-around

Wise Fool can bring your event to life with our award-winning visuals on stilts and in our famous giant puppets. Your guests will be greeted by one of our lively characters and escorted into the event. The stilt walkers and giant puppets will then mingle amongst the guests at your event. This lively entertainment can be contracted for one or more hours.

greeting guests and walk-around - interactive

Wise Fool can bring not only our eclectic touch of color, but also a display of talent and athleticism to your event. Guests will be greeted by acrobats and jugglers as the performers mingle and challenge the perception of gravity and the physical norm. 

wise fool skill-based acts

The following are sample acts that Wise Fool can produce for your event. These acts sometimes require rigging and ground space specifications and are priced by the act or by the overall show.
Ground Acts:
MC – Ringmaster – Do you need a personable character to lead and or moderate your event? Someone who can keep audiences laughing and engaged while the scene or focus of your event shifts? Wise Fool can offer a variety of characters to host your event, from top hats and tails to the outrageous. Our characters can lead you through any event with humor, intellect and charm.
Acrobatics – Wise Fool offers a stunning array of partner based acrobatics. With balance, grace and flexibility, these artists can amaze your audiences with outstanding physical feats balanced a top of each other. Partner and group acrobatic numbers (up to 6 people) can be arranged.
Clown Antics – Wise Fool’s clowns have been known to lyrically, musically and mysteriously enchant and humor audiences. Clown numbers can be added to your performance or event and will round out the show and send everyone home with a smile on their face and a song in their step.
Juggling and Manipulation – You can choose from several different juggling acts. Some are humor-based and some push the limit physically. All entertain. 
Contortion – Limited Availability One of our solo artists will amaze, inspire and stun your audiences with the concept of what is possible with the human body. Contortion is a highly specialized art where the artist manipulates the body beyond what most people think is humanly possible to create amazing visuals and artistry.
Fire Set – Limited Availability We have a variety of Fire Acts for you to choose from. One is swinging Poi which is two short chains with small balls of fire on the end of them that one or many performers dance with and create beautiful patterns of light. Another is Fire Fans which are just as they sound two fire performers dance and sway with these unique fans on fire. The third is our beautiful fire Hat. This is a metal sculpture that straps onto a stilt performers head and is lit with fire. This fire performer makes quite an impression dancing around with giant white wings.
Aerials:
Double Trapeze – We have an assortment of double Trapeze acts. This is an act where two aerial artists use a single trapeze and each other to move effortlessly through the air. This act can be commissioned to fit style and theme of your event.
Aerial Silk Routine - On long flowing 20' silks, multiple aerialists climb and drop and catch and twist themselves into knots in this graceful and stunning aerial display. Where does one artist's body end and another's begin? Aerial silks are popular world wide with their eye catching and enchanting presence.
Solo Lyra – This is a beautiful and lyrical piece on a single silver hoop. This aerialist glides around her apparatus with an ease and grace that leaves you breathless. Spinning in circles that catch the light and move with the sounds that will surround you.
Acrobats on Stilts - In a high energy display of athleticism, grace and artistry, multiple stilt-walkers bound to your stage in their signature mix of acrobatics and dance from as a high as 9' to down on the ground. This act can even be adapted to include high flying aerial feats.
Clown Trapeze – Limited Availability One of our solo artists will entertain you as she attempts to master the world … both on the ground and in the air. This act has garnered rave reviews world wide and was recently performed at Circus Luminous and in Shanghai, China.

wise fool full-length productions

Wise Fool can bring to you an existing show, or we can create a show to suit your needs, tastes, and specifications. In these productions, we combine physical, musical and visual artistry to amaze and impress audiences world wide. Click here to see some examples of shows especially suited for schools and community centers.

wise fool interactive workshops

Wise Fool is equally known for our workshop curriculum as we are for our performances. Wise Fool can lead workshops for both children and adults in the following skills: giant puppet making, stilt walking, giant mural projects, physical theater, clowning and a variety of workshops that combine many art forms to give the participants a new and powerful voice.

Free Standing Truss

Wise Fool New Mexico's Free Standing Truss will enhance your productions and events. This original structure is elegant, durable, and portable. It provides innovative utility for lighting shows and creating eye-catching set decor for stage design. This structure solves the many venue limitations and rigging dilemmas faced by event planners and producers.

In addition, Wise Fool New Mexico can exclusively provide aerialists and trapeze artists to perform from this Free Standing Truss. This stunning combination of form and function not only provides rigging structure, but because of the unique curve design and high-grade aluminum construction, it also provides a graceful, beautiful, and powerful element for any event.