Close-up magic in Boston is performed at conversational distance — in the guest's hands, at their table, with nothing between them and the moment. Matteo Cammisa performs close-up magic at Boston corporate evenings, private dinners and celebrations.
The standard worry about performing for very clever people is exactly backwards. An audience of researchers and engineers does not politely applaud and move on — it engages, immediately and completely, because an unexplained event at eighteen inches is a professional provocation. The night's best moments in Boston are the arguments.
The material is chosen live for the group in front of it. A table of postdocs wants a different piece from a table of trustees, and both are in the same room at a Boston evening — reading which is which is most of the craft.
The city's venues suit the format: private dining rooms in Back Bay, historic clubs with rules against amplification, Seaport spaces with glass walls and no backstage, homes in Brookline and Wellesley. Nothing is needed from any of them.
Winters here, like Chicago's, move evenings indoors and seat them — the exact configuration where table-to-table work is strongest.
Matteo moves through the room during drinks or dinner and performs for small groups at a time. No stage, no microphone, no soundcheck — the whole show happens at arm's length. Typically booked from 30 minutes to two hours, sized to the cocktail hour or the dinner it covers.
From $2,500
A seated, focused piece for the full room, built around thought, choice and influence rather than props. Runs 20 to 30 minutes and works as the pivot between dinner and the rest of the evening.
From $3,000
A full theatrical set for a seated audience, with close-up work projected live to screen where the room is large enough to need it.
On request
At close range with borrowed objects there is nowhere to hide — the work is clean or it is not, and a Boston room checks.
It reaches sixty to a hundred guests an hour at high intensity, and those guests brief the rest of the room better than any programme note.
Matteo Cammisa is a member of The Magic Circle in London, of FISM — the international federation of magic societies — and of the Society of American Magicians. Twenty years of performing, more than 500 events, over 30 countries.
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A performer who works for small groups at conversational distance rather than from a stage — cards, coins and borrowed objects in the guest's own hands. Because the format needs no stage, sound or lighting, it fits the parts of a Boston evening that are otherwise dead time: arrivals, the gaps between courses, the turn of a room.
Better than anything else on the menu. Several Boston clubs restrict amplification and staging outright; close-up magic never triggers those rules because it uses neither. Nothing arrives in cases and nothing is set up.
Roughly 60 to 100 in an hour — more at a seated dinner, where the groups are fixed. For substantially larger rooms, a seated mentalism piece reaches everyone at once, with close-up before or after it.
Almost everything except the word. A party magician performs a set: the same routine, in the same order, whoever is in the room. What Matteo does is closer to hosting — the material is chosen live for the people in front of him, it is built to be photographed, and it is timed around your evening rather than interrupting it. The practical difference shows up in the details: how he dresses, how he works with your planner, whether he needs anything from the venue, and what the room sounds like ten minutes after he leaves.
Bookings start from $2,500. The figure moves with the format, the length of the evening, the number of guests and where in the world the event is. Fees are quoted per event rather than per hour, because what you are booking is presence across a window of the evening, not a block of stage time. Tell Matteo the date, the city and roughly how many guests, and you will have a firm figure within 24 hours.
Yes — Matteo Cammisa performs worldwide, year-round, and has done so at more than 500 events across over 30 countries. Wherever the event is, send the date, the city and roughly how many guests, and you will have availability and a firm figure within 24 hours. Where travel applies, it is quoted separately and transparently.
Send the date, the city and roughly how many guests. You will have availability and a firm figure within 24 hours.
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