American disco-glam group, Scissor Sisters, regularly team up with Area 51 to help create stunning show costumes and props for their extravagant live performances
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Archives for Decor
BIG FUN AT RUN TO THE SUN
Robots, space girls, butterflies and tribesmen cooked up Cornish delight as they ran to the sun to storm the festival that refuses to die! Area 51 characters invaded the resort of Newquay in Cornwall for the impressive Run To The Sun Festival which despite rumours of imminent death, continues to thrive as one of Britain's best annual bashes.
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THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ
We tasked ourselves to create a series of high quality décor and props to whisk you off down the legendary yellow brick road with the key characters in film-quality costumes. Oz is the perfect theme for private and corporate events and is guaranteed to appeal to all ages. The look is based on the 1939 movie adaptation of L Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s book. Its strong visual style provides that essential feel-good factor which event managers seek.
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SCI-FI SUPERNOVA
A galaxy of Area 51 performers detonated an entertainment supernova to help make a major sci fi festival a cosmic success! The extensive 40-strong Area 51 team descended on a North Wales holiday park for the fifth
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THE FLAME AWARDS
The glitzy and prestigious Flame Awards at the Telford International Conference Centre honours exceptionally high standards in the physical activity sector. Health clubs, leisure centres and charity events, as well as workplace wellbeing projects vie for the winners’ podium. The décor needed to be gold standard.
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HALLOWEEN HORROR ON SECRET PARTY
Clubbers were given the creeps after Area 51 helped transform an old bus depot into a haunted house of horrors at an exclusive party event in the heart of the East Midlands. Area 51 transformed the Secret Party Project Halloween hoedown into a spectre-tacular scare-fest of monster proportions n Nottingham,
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RAVE ON THE WAVES AT BESTIVAL
Area 51 rocked the dock as H.M.S. Bestival dropped anchor at one of Britain's best-ever festival arenas. It was full steam-ahead as shipmates shared the fun in an amazing nautical-themed party at Bestival on the Isle of Wight.
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KANDI HEADS – FANTASY FUN IN IBIZA
Once upon a time a legendary name from Ibiza's clubland royalty needed candy to turn the heads of the party elite and so they called on Area 51 to help. Hed Kandi approached the Warwickshire company to create an elaborate and bespoke collection of stunning set
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GATSBY A GREAT SUCCESS!
University students were taken back through time to the Roaring Twenties for a rip-roaring gala ball thanks to Area 51. A series of stunning props and scenery were created for the glittering annual occasion at Loughborough University in the heart of England and together with a troupe of 51 entertainers, the event was heralded an enormous success.
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CARAVAN OF LOST SOULS AT GLASTONBURY 2013
Area 51 vamped up Glastonbury Festival's 40th anniversary with vaudevillian va-va-voom! The show-stopping travelling circus, the Caravan Of Lost Souls rolled into the festival’s theatre & circus arena for a string of shows that stunned revellers. The caravan is essentially a Victorian box-on-wheels that unfolds into a gloriously Gilliam-like stage set.
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HARRY POTTER
Initially created for a university students’ ball, the client wanted guests to walk through a smokey corridor to the Great Hall at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It should come complete with dozens of ethereal flying candles, stone walls, giant fireplaces and ghostly apparitions. Here the Sorting Hat will guide you and your guests into your chosen Hogwarts houses, whether Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw.
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DYNAMO’S DASH OF TIKI IN DUBAI
After a riotously successful performance of Somnambu at Dubai’s World-famous Atlantis Hotel, the Area 51 think-tank had to serve up something really special 12 months later to stay fresh and innovative. And so was born Tiki - a brand new circus devised, produced and directed by Area 51’s Matt Page. It seemed like the perfect place to try out the new presentation!
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WIZARD CONJURES MALDIVES MAGIC
Close your eyes and tap your heels together three times and think to yourself...there's no place like The Maldives!Jet setting holidaymakers at a luxurious hideaway resort in the Indian Ocean followed the yellow brick road to fun in the sun as Area 51 dispatched a crack team of entertainers to the islands for a spectacular Easter experience.
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SPACE-TACULAR SCENES AT SCIFI WEEKENDER
It's a Sci-Fi Convention Jim, but not as we know it! 51 load up the vans and boldly go - to West Wales... We embarked on 2 incredible days packed full of Sci-Fi themed walkabout and truly massive stage-shows
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RICOH CHRISTMAS CIRCUS
AREA 51 brought all the fun of the fair to a famous stadium venue by staging a brilliant Christmas circus inside it! Complete with stunning décor and props, the event at the Ricoh Arena on the outskirts of Coventry
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LADY GAGA AT THE ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE
Lady Gaga demands originality and quality. One of Area 51's most high-profile creations is her surreal spider piano, which amazed guests at the Royal Variety Performance – as well as TV viewers worldwide. The American pop star wanted to descend to her key-board from theatre’s fly-tower on a suspended piano stool, wearing a red PVC outfit featuring a floor-length cloak together with an Elizabethan styled collar.
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AREA 51 ROCK WITH DEVIN TOWNSEND
They had the music, script, the idea for the most out-there storyline synthesised by the genius that is Devin Townsend and narrated by the Legendary Steve Vai, however, they needed one more piece of the puzzle, to seek out production company that had the tools to bring this show to life. They found their target and honed-in with laser precision onto Area 51.
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CARAVAN’S GOLDEN SUCCESS AT ZOO
Igor Rasputin revamped his infamous Caravan Of Lost Souls for a children's audience as part of Twycross Zoo's 50th anniversary celebrations. And re-sculpting the kooky caravan into a family-friendly entertainment freak show for all was hailed a success as the spectacular Area 51 show was lauded by public and zoo staff alike during the milestone event at the Midlands attraction.
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MALDIVES GOES BONKERS OVER WONKA’S
Guests at one of the world's most exclusive and elite holiday islands marvelled in pure imagination as Area 51's new Willy Wonka fantasy show created Easter magic! Jet set holidaymakers on the Maldives enjoyed a golden ticket to Roald Dahl's fantasy world as a compact contingent of crack Area 51 performers created a series of shows to dazzle
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RICOH CIRCUS IS SMASH-HIT SUCCESS
When a vintage Victorian circus pitched its tent inside the huge Ricoh Arena for a feast of festive fun at a series of sell-out shows the magic of Christmas truly came alive.
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POSEIDON ADVENTURE IN THE MALDIVES
Area 51 created their own 'Poseidon Adventure' at an elite paradise island resort in the Indian Ocean to help 'sea' in the new year with an injection of glamour and style in front of an audience of A-list celebs!
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PENGUINS AT SNOW DOME
The crew were booked in to provide a festive feast Area 51 style at Tamworth's Snow Dome arena last Christmas.
Amongst the installations included a penguin ice hockey scene with the two sides, 'Santa's Saints' and 'The Elves' battling it out at the stadium
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A CASTLE FOR JONATHON ROSS
TV star Jonathan Ross saw his luxury North London mansion transformed into a Castle of Creeps by Area 51's crew of ghost-thrusters. Filling the grounds of the chat show host's impressive homestead with a surfeit of spectres, creatures and assorted monsters, the Area 51 team also carried out a stunning makeover of his mansion to turn it into a citadel of spooks.
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STILTS MAKE GREAT STRIDES AT GADGET SHOW
Area 51's revolutionary DigiLegs kicked up a storm at this year's Gadget Show Live at the NEC in Birmingham and were rated among the best products on show. The popular reverse leg stilts have revolutionised costuming
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AREA 51’S TIKI TRIBE TAKE ON DUBAI
Area 51’s talented team of Tiki themed tribesmen and girls made a dash from Wales to Dubai to entertain the crowds at one of the hottest events on the celebrity calendar. The fiery feather-bound Tiki circus blended ancient ritualistic vibes with contemporary cool to stun the audience.
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