Cutting Edge Innertainment

About

DAN MEYER is a unique performance artist who specializes in the extremely dangerous and very narrow field of cutting edge innertainment - Sword Swallowing.

After working for several years in the music industry in Nashville Tennessee, Stockholm Sweden, and London England, Dan Meyer shifted his focus from the field of musical entertainment to variety entertainment as circus clown, juggler, stilt-walker, fire-eater, and eventually, the most dangerous of all performance arts - Sword Swallower!

After being amazed while watching fire-eaters and sword swallowers, first at circus sideshows while growing up as a child in Indiana, and later witnessing Indian fakirs while serving as a missionary in India, Dan became passionate about learning the incredible feats himself.

Hearing from a sword swallower in 1998 that there were "less than a dozen sword swallowers left around the world" led Dan on his quest to locate as many of the surviving sword swallowers as possible while mastering the 4,000-year-old art. After three years of research, study, and daily practice, Dan taught himself to swallow solid steel swords while networking the remaining sword swallowers into the Sword Swallowers Association International.

Described as a "Christian David Copperfield who combines real feats with a powerful message instead of just tricks and illusions, Dan eats fire and swallows solid steel swords, blades, sabers, bayonets, and other objects from 15 to 30 inches in length, and up to 8 swords at once!

Dan's show features REAL shocking feats combined with light comedy and audience participation where Dan recruits volunteers from the audience so everyone can feel like part of the show! Dan performs extreme feats such as fire-eating, the human blockhead, and the ancient art of sword swallowing in a professional family-oriented stage show that is educational, inspirational, motivational, and UNFORGETTABLE with just the right touch of light comedy.

Despite a close call resulting in a nearly deadly injury while swallowing 5 swords at once, Dan continues to amaze audiences with his skills.

“I enjoy performing REAL feats that people think are impossible in order to demonstrate how incredible the human body really is," Dan explains.

To prove his point, Dan swallowed a 30 inch sword while submerged 20 feet underwater in a tank of 80 live sharks and stingrays for Ripley's Believe It or Not, a feat witnessed by over 40 million viewers on over 400 TV stations around the world.

A multiple Guinness World Record holder and one of the top sword swallowers of only a few dozen professional sword swallowers left in the world today, Dan has been featured on programs such as America's Got Talent, Today Show, CNN, MTV, ESPN, PBS, Discovery Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Times Channel, Discovery Canada, Discovery International, The Learning Channel, Documentary Channel, Spike TV, Travel Channel, USA Network, Food Network, Armed Forces Network, Ripley's Believe It or Not, CNN Headline News, CNN Health, ABC World News, CBS News, FOX News, NBC News, MSNBC, BBC World News, NPR, BBC, CBC, CTV, CMT, WGN, NTV Russia, Telemundo, Univision, Mancow Show, USA Today, New York Post, New York Times, Irish Times, London Times, British Medical Journal, Scientific American, Science Daily, National Geographic, Nature Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Christian Activities, and hundreds of other radio, TV, magazine, and newspaper interviews around the world. Dan has performed on national tour with Brooks and Dunn's Neon Circus, on international tour with the Celtic Christian band Ceili Rain, at Ripley's Believe It or Not! attractions, and at colleges, universities, church youth events, Upward awards programs, corporate events, science festivals, science museums, medical events, cruise ships, and other events in over a dozen countries around the world.

As Executive Director of the Sword Swallowers Association International, co-author of a year-long medical study on sword swallowing published in the prestigious British Medical Journal that won him the 2007 Ig Nobel Award in Medicine at Harvard, and an avid historical researcher and collector of sword swallowing artifacts, Dan is widely recognized as the foremost authority in the world on the ancient history of the art of sword swallowing.

Dan is available for appearances, media interviews, talk shows, medical demonstrations, films, documentaries, conventions, festivals, artist tours, church youth events, Upward Awards shows, and other bookings through Cutting Edge Innertainment.

Personnel

Dan Meyer: Sword Swallower, Fire-eater

What to Expect

Typical Gig Duration: 20 - 45 minutes

A Cutting Edge Innertainment show features real shocking feats combined with light comedy and audience participation where Dan recruits volunteers from the audience so everyone can feel like part of the show! Dan performs extreme feats such as fire-eating, the human blockhead, and the ancient art of sword swallowing in a professional family-oriented stage show that is educational, inspirational, motivational, and UNFORGETTABLE with just the right touch of light comedy.

Stage/Setup Requirements:
1 bottle of bottled water
1 cup Coleman fuel
1 fresh cucumber
1 ripe orange
1 skirted table

Set/Song/Sequence List:
Announcer Introduction and Disclaimer<br>
Fire-eating<br>
Human Blockhead<br>
Sword Swallowing<br>
History<br>
Medical Aspects<br>
Small swords to larger swords<br>
Message (as needed/requested by client)<br>
Closing

Performance Schedule

Past Booked Dates:

12-30-2008 — Youth Encounter Convention, Springfield, IL
12-29-2008 — Youth Encounter Convention, Springfield, IL
11-22-2008 — National Youth Workers Convention, Nashville, TN
11-21-2008 — National Youth Workers Convention, Nashville, TN
11-06-2008 — National Theater of the USA, Vanderbilt University, Ingram Theater, Nashville, TN
10-28-2008 — Film Shoot, Kandern/Riedlingen, Germany
10-24-2008 — Festival della Scienza, Genoa Italy
10-20-2008 — Media Press Event, Bandhagen Sweden
10-18-2008 — Orebro Castle, Orebro Sweden
10-17-2008 — Castle Wyk, Uppsala Sweden
10-16-2008 — Stockholm, Sweden
10-15-2008 — Basel, Switzerland
10-09-2008 — Carnival Cruise With a Cause, Bahamas
10-08-2008 — Carnival Cruise With a Cause, Bahamas
10-07-2008 — Carnival Cruise With a Cause, Bahamas
10-06-2008 — Carnival Cruise With a Cause, Bahamas
10-02-2008 — Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
09-20-2008 — Depot Days, Hartselle, AL
09-06-2008 — Shady Grove Baptist Church, Danville, AL
08-26-2008 — America's Got Talent Los Angeles Live Show
08-09-2008 — Opened for Jeremy Camp Concert, Hunstville, AL
08-05-2008 — America's Got Talent Las Vegas Episode
08-04-2008 — Ripley's Believe It or Not Breakfast TV, Toronto, Canada
07-04-2008 — American Village, Birmingham AL
07-01-2008 — The Today Show Live in NY
07-01-2008 — America's Got Talent Atlanta episode
06-11-2008 — Rolls Royce, London, England UK
06-08-2008 — Gifford's Circus, Gloucestershire, England, UK
06-07-2008 — Cheltenham Science Festival, Cheltenham, England UK
06-06-2008 — Medical Banquet, Gloucester, England UK
06-04-2008 — Medical Banquet, Gloucester, England UK
05-26-2008 — Fox News Birmingham, AL
05-14-2008 — America's Got Talent Las Vegas Casino
05-13-2008 — America'
04-05-2008 — Casino, Detroit, MI
03-16-2008 — Ig Nobel UK Tour, London, England
03-15-2008 — Ig Nobel UK Tour, London, England
03-14-2008 — Ig Nobel UK Tour, London, England
03-13-2008 — Ig Nobel UK Tour, London, England
03-12-2008 — Ig Nobel UK Tour, London, England
03-11-2008 — Buckingham Palace, London, England
03-11-2008 — Imperial College, London, England UK
03-10-2008 — Ig Nobel UK Tour, London, England
03-09-2008 — Ig Nobel UK Tour, London, England
03-08-2008 — Ig Nobel UK Tour, London, England
03-07-2008 — Ig Nobel UK Tour, London, England
03-06-2008 — Oxford University, Oxford, England UK
03-04-2008 — Upward Awards Night, Rainsville Baptist Church, Rainsville, AL
03-01-2008 — Christian Music Festival, Tampa, FL
02-29-2008 — Upward Unlimited Awards Night program, Madison, AL
02-28-2008 — Intl Sword Swallowers Day medical demos, Hartselle/Decatur, AL, Friendship UMC, Athens, AL
02-26-2008 — America's Got Talent Atlanta GA
02-25-2008 — Rick & Bubba Show, Birmingham, AL
01-31-2008 — America's Got Talent, Nashville, TN
01-30-2008 — America's Got Talent, Nashville, TN
01-27-2008 — Ringling Brothers Circus Nashville, TN

Experience

2007: 33 gigs
2008: 65 gigs
2009: 100 gigs
2010: 125 gigs
2011: 120 gigs

Available for Your

Awards Night, Bachelorette Party, Concert Venue, Convention, Corporate Event, Cruise, Festival, Fundraiser, Grand Opening, Private Party, Religious Celebration, Restaurant, Sporting Event, Trade Show

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