A roundup of street performance ideas to liven up year-end and New Year parties
Are you wondering what to perform for entertainment at your year-end or New Year’s party? The classic acts are great, but how about switching things up and trying a street performance? Street performance actually has tons of elements that can really liven up a party! In this article, we’ve gathered a wide variety of street performance ideas you can choose from to match the venue’s vibe and your own strengths.
Many of these performances do require practice, but with solid preparation and a focus on safety, you’re sure to wow everyone at your year-end or New Year’s party!
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Ideas for Street Performances That Liven Up Year-End and New-Year Parties (31–40)
one-man band
When you think of a band, you picture vocals, guitar, bass, drums…
a three- or four-member setup is the norm, right? A “one-man band” is someone who does all of that alone.
They hold a guitar in their hands, have a harmonica set at their mouth, and carry a drum kit on their back.
It seems the hi-hat and snare drum are triggered by footwork.
The look is amusing, and it’s the kind of performance that would get the crowd going from the moment they appear.
Baton twirling
How about showing off some baton twirling—spinning and tossing a baton—in a party setting? It might seem tricky to perform indoors, but there are actually plenty of techniques you can do right in your hands! Here, we introduce beginner-friendly baton skills that are easy to try.
The way you move the baton across your shoulders and arms while spinning it is simply elegant.
Feel free to use this as a reference and give it some practice.
Once you get used to spinning the baton, try adding music and dance as well.
flash mob dance
Flash mobs that bring unexpected emotion to proposals and parties are a hard-to-resist form of entertainment.
Highly recommended for the bold! Since dance is the main element, it requires a longer practice period than other activities.
It’s reassuring if you have a few people with dance experience.
For company events, it might be fun to split into groups like a junior team and a veteran team!
levitation
It’s about a bill floating, levitating in midair.
Naturally, you’d suspect something is supporting it from behind, and even if you try to find flaws… you can’t.
Rather than calling it a performance or a trick, it might be better described as magic that uses a prop.
It’s simply done by using something like an invisible thin rubber band to hook or rest the bill on.
Apparently, these invisible rubber bands are sold.
With just this, it seems like you could apply it in all sorts of other ways.
Acrobat
If you’ve ever seen a Chinese acrobat troupe, you’re probably familiar with this street performance.
They put on a thrilling show using astonishing core strength and muscular control.
Depending on the venue for your year-end party, this act is highly recommended if the space has sufficient height.
Live painting
Painting is generally treated as a field of art, but by creating it live, in real time, it has recently been in the spotlight as a performance known as live painting.
The video features spray art, but you could also energize the crowd by doing caricatures, capture the atmosphere of a year-end party with a landscape-style piece, or take requests—feel free to adapt based on your skills and strengths.
Rap battle
Rap, where you rhyme and perform each other’s verses to hype up the audience, could be a great way to speak up about workplace frustrations and the overall vibe—especially by taking advantage of the anything-goes atmosphere of year-end and New Year parties.
While many rap battles traditionally weave disses at the opponent into the lyrics, why not prepare carefully—rhyme, rhythm, bars—and, together with your partner, hype the room by venting about what didn’t go well this year and mixing in your resolutions for the next?
bucket drum
A drum solo performance where anything goes—not just a regular drum kit, but buckets, the ground, the floor, whatever’s around.
You can enjoy a variety of sounds you can’t get from a standard drum set, instantly switch what you’re hitting, or suddenly strike random objects nearby.
If you’re a drummer, give it a try.
One-person multitrack live performance
This is a performance where music—usually imagined as layering many instruments with a large group—is built up by a single person.
Using a device called a looper, you gradually stack sounds starting from a short rhythmic phrase.
Beginning with this short phrase is the most important part; making the audience wonder whether it will become music leads to the ultimate surprise.
Even if it sounds like a simple, casual fragment, it’s interesting that it can turn out to be an indispensable element of the finished piece.
Hige Dance
For those who say they can’t dance in public because they have no sense of rhythm, I recommend the classic “Hige Dance.” You don’t need to memorize any difficult or complicated choreography at all.
Plus, it can be done with just one or two people, so it seems easy to try.
It might also be fun to invite a guest on as a surprise in the middle of the bit to get some laughs.