Sky-High Impact: 10 Aerial & Airborne Event Entertainment Ideas to Wow Guests
Today’s events make the most impact when they’re wholly immersive, making the most of 360° experiences.
While event planners often create impactful themes with bold performances on the ground, the sky is often the most underused space at any event.
Airborne and aerial entertainment can be a huge success at events, increasing your guests’ engagement with these more scarcely seen performances.
There’s also an added bonus of press potential and wow factor, drawing in intrigue unlike any other performance is capable of.
Particularly powerful for a range of events from festivals to family fun days or even brand activations, there’s such a variety of entertainment available that is vastly underused.
Table of Contents:
- What Is Aerial Entertainment?
- What Is Airborne Entertainment?
- When to Use Airborne Entertainment
- 10 Types of Aerial & Air Entertainment
- Aerial Silks (Tissu) Performers
- Aerial Hoop (Lyra) Performers
- Trapeze Acts
- Drone Light Shows
- Balloon Acts
- Extreme Free Fall Airbag
- Aerial Chandeliers
- Inflatable Aerial Performers
- Helium-Filled Prop Drop
- Flying Product Reveals
- Liven Up Your Event With Aerial Entertainment
What Is Aerial Entertainment?
Aerial entertainment is a human performance that takes place in the air or above ground, involving rigging and apparatus like silks, hoops, straps, or trapezes to create the final outcome.
Some great examples are:
- Aerial silks or trapeze acts
- Aerial musical performers hanging from rigging
- Hoop performers
What Is Airborne Entertainment?
Airborne entertainment is often a little broader, incorporating anything that happens while in flight or in the air.
This could include:
- Performers of all varieties
- Technology like drone shows
- Objects in the sky
When to Use Airborne Entertainment
Airborne entertainment is most effective when used to elevate the atmosphere at your event.
Consider implementing airborne entertainment in these key event settings for the most impact:
- Outdoor Events: Open-air spaces provide the perfect backdrop for aerial performances, drone shows, or skydiving stunts without height restrictions.
- Limited Ground Space: When venue space is tight on the floor, airborne acts make use of the often disregarded vertical space.
- Grand Openings or Product Launches: Add spectacle and impact with dramatic reveals from the sky or overhead performances that draw attention and media interest.
- Corporate Launches: Make your brand the focal point with vertical stunts to unveil logos or branding from height.
- Evening Events: Light-based airborne acts, like drone shows or illuminated aerial dancers, shine best in dusk or nighttime settings.
- Family Festivals: Delight all ages with charming balloon walkers or floating bubble acts.
- Luxury or High-End Experiences like Gala Dinners: Aerial champagne pouring, silk dancers, or synchronised flight displays add sophistication and exclusivity.
- Themed Events or Festivals: Fantasy, futuristic, or circus-themed events benefit from the dreamlike quality of performers floating above the crowd.
- Brand Activation: Create buzz and social media engagement with unexpected, dynamic elements that literally rise above the competition.
- Public Events or Shopping Centres: Attract and retain crowds with high-energy sky shows
10 Types of Aerial & Air Entertainment
If you want your event to stand out, you need to make use of aerial and airborne performers and entertainment for verticality, impact and uniqueness.
Here are our top 10 choices for this incredible entertainment.
1. Aerial Silks (Tissu) Performers
Our Aerial Silk performers are a great way to deliver elegance and grace for refined events like Gala Dinners, Award Ceremonies, private parties and anything in-between.
These skilled performers wrap themselves in long pieces of fabric, performing acrobatic tricks while suspended in the air with a careful and sophisticated manner.
This wow-factor act is a definite must-have for a lot of event types, standing out as a centre stage focal point or as more of an ambient entertainer hanging above while guests enter and explore your venue.
2. Aerial Hoop (Lyra) Performers
Create more intimate performances for your product launches and upscale corporate events with our aerial hoop performers.
As an outstanding aerial act, these hoop performers are suspended from the ceiling to perform tricks and routines from above.
This often includes mind-blowing mid-air acrobatics and agility that mesmerise guests, boosting engagement and offering a shareable photo moment that encourages online promotion.
3. Trapeze Acts
Elevate your outdoor festivals and high-energy corporate parties with our trapeze acts.
These daring performers swing from a horizontal bar or trapeze, often incorporating adrenaline-pumping aerial flips and stunts that will have guests on the edge of their seats.
This entertainment is ideal for cirque-inspired events, delivering a captivating, circus-style performance that will delight and engage your audience.
4. Drone Light Shows
Stand out with a more unique airborne show, perfect for outdoor festivals and large brand launches.
Taking to the skies, a drone light show will fly in coordinated formations, creating stunning light displays or logos in the sky.
Perfect for high-class events at stadiums or night-time corporate activations, drone light shows are guaranteed to give your attendees goosebumps from the ground.
5. Balloon Acts
Your airborne entertainment can be fun for all the family, with our balloon acts that are sure to delight youngsters at family-friendly events, public festivals and even brand activations.
Performers attached to large helium balloons or transparent themes will float above the crowds, moving across the event space as a really unique form of entertainment.
6. Extreme Free Fall Airbag
One of our most thrilling acts has to be our extreme free fall airbag, wowing guests from the skies as the performers drop doing professional free fall stunts.
This type of act is perfect for giving guests a rush at large outdoor festivals, grand openings and product reveals.
Perfect for media and press coverage, as well as photo opportunity for guests, this is a definitive must-have.
Great for mixing with some extreme sports entertainers, this exhilarating act is one-of-a-kind.
7. Aerial Chandeliers
Keep your entertainment classic and timeless with our aerial chandeliers, perfect for gala dinners, luxury brand events and high-end corporate events.
Hanging from the ceiling or rigging, these chandeliers could just be a large spectacle of artwork, a light installation, or a bespoke piece for performers to hang from and put on a show.
8. Inflatable Aerial Performers
Create an entire experience for your guests with bespoke, inflatable structures, allowing performers to hang from above as an entire attention-grabbing piece of their own.
These inflatable structures are often rigged to float or hover above the crowd, combining performance with visual spectacle.
Make sure to hire inflatable aerial performers for outdoor events, festival spaces or anything that needs a touch of whimsy or playfulness.
9. Helium-Filled Prop Drop
Engage your crowds with a more immersive airborne act, the helium-filled prop drop.
This type of entertainment relies on building tension and thrilling audiences when dropping large dramatic props (such as oversized logos, balloons, or fabric) to fall on or hover above the crowd as part of a reveal or celebratory moment.
As a great way to include guests within brand reveals, product launches and high-profile public activations, this airborne act is great for increasing engagement and adding great photo and video opportunity for social promotions.
10. Flying Product Reveals
Promote your product or brand from above with flying product reveals, with branded materials suspended or flown from above as part of a reveal.
This could be in the form of blips, drones, or balloons, encapsulating striking visuals that crowds see from everywhere.
Great for taking advantage of height at brand launches, corporate exhibitions and trade shows, flying product reveals can make all the difference.
Liven Up Your Event With Aerial Entertainment
Make sure you’re not overlooking the skies at your events with this range of brilliant aerial and airborne entertainment.
Every act has a little something different to offer, from great branded event acts like flying product reveals and helium-filled prop drops, to outdoor spectacles like our extreme free fall airbag.
No matter the event, there’s a great entertainment option that’s going to wow guests more than anything they could see on the ground.
Make sure to make your event pop and reach out for us to put together a roster of incredible entertainment acts tailored to your needs.
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