HANS KLOK
Hans Klok (1969) became fascinated with magic and illusions at the young age of 10 years old, after receiving a birthday gift from his grandfather.. a plain and simple children's box of magic tricks. It didn't take long before he was performing these tricks at his school-friends birthday parties. With the help from his father, it didn't take long before Hans began to think up new and fascinating illusions and at the age of just 14 years old he was already Dutch and European Youth Champion of Magic
Thanks to his unique and characteristic style of fast and spectacular illusions he rapidly became a professional illusionist and in the early 90's performed to an amazing 170 thousand visitors of the Dutch amusement park Duinrell followed up with a guest-starring role, performing all over Holland during the theatre tour of Dutch comedian icon André van Duin and A-celebrity status singer Gerard Joling! He also won numerous national and international awards and appeared in many spectacular and well rated television shows. He attained international fame and recognition due to some unbelievable magic performances including the appearance of a new Mercedes (out of thin air!) and a year later on the middle spot in a football stadium packed until bursting point, where he miraculously made 25 footballers appear from a small box. Hans had now evolved into a world renowned illusionist with his own unique style, equaled by none.
In 1997, Hans begun his life on the road, with a series of theatre shows, which in turn was responsible for the ever increasing demand in foreign countries. So being, in 2004 he was the first international artist to tour China with 64 theatre shows. Quite an achievement. In 2005, Hans received the unique opportunity to remind the world why he was titled "The Fastest Magician in the World" when he was honoured to be the only live act to perform at the FIFA World Championship in Leipzig, Germany, making the World Cup Trophy appear out of nowhere for a unbelievable 500 million audience in 152 countries! An absolute mind boggling amount of viewers by any standard.
In the last 10 years Hans has shared the stage with, amongst others: Sir Paul McCartney, Lionel Richie, Madonna and Jermaine Jackson. Apart from the above mentioned, he has also performed in places such as Dubai, Moscow, Canada and all of Europe's major cities and capitols.
He has also performed for a collection of Royalty including Queen Beatrix of Holland and Princess Stephanie of Monaco.
From 2005 Hans started to work on a mega show, which was suited not only for the European theatres but also for the American audiences. Faster Than Magic kicked off in January 2007 with the German premiére and within a few months Hans and his team left for Las Vegas to begin a new magnificent adventure with Pamela Anderson.
SEE YOU IN VEGAS!
With these words; "See you in Vegas" Hans would for years shout out to the applauding audiences at the end of his shows. He first performed in Vegas back in 1994 and then again later in 1996 in Ceasar's Palace to a 60 million NBC television audience. But it was in 2007 that his dream of creating his own theatre show for Vegas became a reality, when he became the first Dutch illusionist to perform a six month run of shows on the famous Strip in Las Vegas! Due to the popularity and demand for the show, after the planned three month run, the show was extended another three months and the amount of shows per week were increased.
With this show; The Beauty of Magic", Hans performed a stunning 144 times in The Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino Las Vegas (owned by Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore). The show, with the beautiful Pamela Anderson at his side, exploded on the Strip on the 2nd of June 2007 and up until the last show on the 8th of December Hans was continually increasing his world popularity what with this and his American TV appearances, which were broadcast coast to coast. These TV performances included chat shows from US celebrities such as Conan O'Brian and Ellen Degeneres
After recently having spent two weeks filming in Mexico and working with 20 top TV personalities, the footage to be broadcast during the upcoming football mania for who knows how many 10's of millions of viewers, Hans is momentarily back in Holland, writing and preparing his new evening show "Hurricane". This magic extravaganza will premiére in October 2010 in the famous Carré Theater in Amsterdam and shall continue to tour Holland and a part of Europe until March 2011. In December 2010 Hans will also tour Germany and Austria with a special Christmas show.
Hans Klok (1969) became fascinated with magic and illusions at the young age of 10 years old, after receiving a birthday gift from his grandfather.. a plain and simple children's box of magic tricks. It didn't take long before he was performing these tricks at his school-friends birthday parties. With the help from his father, it didn't take long before Hans began to think up new and fascinating illusions and at the age of just 14 years old he was already Dutch and European Youth Champion of Magic
Thanks to his unique and characteristic style of fast and spectacular illusions he rapidly became a professional illusionist and in the early 90's performed to an amazing 170 thousand visitors of the Dutch amusement park Duinrell followed up with a guest-starring role, performing all over Holland during the theatre tour of Dutch comedian icon André van Duin and A-celebrity status singer Gerard Joling! He also won numerous national and international awards and appeared in many spectacular and well rated television shows. He attained international fame and recognition due to some unbelievable magic performances including the appearance of a new Mercedes (out of thin air!) and a year later on the middle spot in a football stadium packed until bursting point, where he miraculously made 25 footballers appear from a small box. Hans had now evolved into a world renowned illusionist with his own unique style, equaled by none.
In 1997, Hans begun his life on the road, with a series of theatre shows, which in turn was responsible for the ever increasing demand in foreign countries. So being, in 2004 he was the first international artist to tour China with 64 theatre shows. Quite an achievement. In 2005, Hans received the unique opportunity to remind the world why he was titled "The Fastest Magician in the World" when he was honoured to be the only live act to perform at the FIFA World Championship in Leipzig, Germany, making the World Cup Trophy appear out of nowhere for a unbelievable 500 million audience in 152 countries! An absolute mind boggling amount of viewers by any standard.
In the last 10 years Hans has shared the stage with, amongst others: Sir Paul McCartney, Lionel Richie, Madonna and Jermaine Jackson. Apart from the above mentioned, he has also performed in places such as Dubai, Moscow, Canada and all of Europe's major cities and capitols.
He has also performed for a collection of Royalty including Queen Beatrix of Holland and Princess Stephanie of Monaco.
From 2005 Hans started to work on a mega show, which was suited not only for the European theatres but also for the American audiences. Faster Than Magic kicked off in January 2007 with the German premiére and within a few months Hans and his team left for Las Vegas to begin a new magnificent adventure with Pamela Anderson.
SEE YOU IN VEGAS!
With these words; "See you in Vegas" Hans would for years shout out to the applauding audiences at the end of his shows. He first performed in Vegas back in 1994 and then again later in 1996 in Ceasar's Palace to a 60 million NBC television audience. But it was in 2007 that his dream of creating his own theatre show for Vegas became a reality, when he became the first Dutch illusionist to perform a six month run of shows on the famous Strip in Las Vegas! Due to the popularity and demand for the show, after the planned three month run, the show was extended another three months and the amount of shows per week were increased.
With this show; The Beauty of Magic", Hans performed a stunning 144 times in The Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino Las Vegas (owned by Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore). The show, with the beautiful Pamela Anderson at his side, exploded on the Strip on the 2nd of June 2007 and up until the last show on the 8th of December Hans was continually increasing his world popularity what with this and his American TV appearances, which were broadcast coast to coast. These TV performances included chat shows from US celebrities such as Conan O'Brian and Ellen Degeneres
After recently having spent two weeks filming in Mexico and working with 20 top TV personalities, the footage to be broadcast during the upcoming football mania for who knows how many 10's of millions of viewers, Hans is momentarily back in Holland, writing and preparing his new evening show "Hurricane". This magic extravaganza will premiére in October 2010 in the famous Carré Theater in Amsterdam and shall continue to tour Holland and a part of Europe until March 2011. In December 2010 Hans will also tour Germany and Austria with a special Christmas show.
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