DAN MEYER is a unique performance artist who specializes in the extremely dangerous and very narrow field of cutting edge innertainment - sword swallowing!

After working several years in the music industry in Nashville Tennessee, Stockholm Sweden, and London England, Dan Meyer shifted his focus from the field of musical entertainment to variety entertainment as circus clown, juggler, stilt-walker, blockhead, fire-eater, and eventually, the most dangerous of all performance arts - Sword Swallower!

After being amazed while watching fire-eaters and sword swallowers, first at circus sideshows while growing up as a child in Indiana, and later witnessing Indian fakirs, snake charmers, fire-eaters and sword swallowers while serving as a missionary in India, Dan became passionate about learning the incredible feats himself. 

Hearing from a sword swallower in 1998 that there were "less than a dozen sword swallowers left around the world" led Dan on his quest to locate as many of the surviving sword swallowers as possible while mastering the 4,000-year-old art. 

After three years of research, study, and daily training, Dan taught himself to swallow solid steel swords up to 30 inches long and up to 8 swords at once while networking the remaining sword swallowers into the Sword Swallowers Association International. 

Described as a "Christian David Copperfield" who combines real feats with a powerful message instead of just tricks and illusions, Dan eats fire and swallows solid steel swords, blades, sabers, bayonets, and other objects from 15 to 30 inches in length, and up to 8 swords at once. 

Dan's show features REAL feats combined with light comedy and audience participation with volunteers from the audience so everyone feels part of the show! Dan performs extreme feats such as fire-eating, the human blockhead, and sword-swallowing in a professional family-oriented show that's educational, inspirational, motivational, and UNFORGETTABLE with just the right touch of comedy. 

A passionate advocate for preserving the ancient art, Dan is known for his live performances, research studies, motivational talks, high-profile stunts, and media appearances around the world.  A featured Ripley's Believe It or Not performer and a multiple Guinness World Record holder, Dan is recognized as one of the top performers of only a few dozen actively performing professional sword swallowers left performing around the world today. 

Dan has been featured on programs such as America's Got Talent, CNN Headline News, CNN Health, MTV, ESPN, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX News, MSNBC, The Discovery Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Times Channel, Discovery Canada, Discovery International, Daily Planet, The Learning Channel, Documentary Channel, Travel Channel, USA Network, Spike TV, Food Network, Armed Forces Network, Shocked and Amazed TV, Xtreme Life TV, Ripley's Believe It or Not, CMT, PBS, BBC, CBC, NPR, JCTV, CTV Canada, ITV UK, NTV Russia, Univision, Telemundo, Superstation WGN, MSNBC Today Show, 48 Hours, 20/20, Alan Titchmarsh Show UK, Mancow Show, Absolutely Alabama, Tennessee Crossroads, USA Today, Newsweek, New York Post, New York Times, Irish Times, London Times, The Guardian Magazine (UK), Telegraph (UK), British Medical Journal (UK), Scientific American, Science Daily, Nature Magazine, National Geographic, Forbes Magazine, NADA Auto Exec Magazine, Christian Activities, Amusement Business Magazine, Bizarre Magazine, Circus Report, and hundreds of other radio, TV, magazine, and newspaper interviews around the world. 

Dan has performed on national tour with Brooks and Dunn's Neon Circus (Rascal Flatts, Trick Pony, Dwight Yoakum, Cletus T. Judd, and others), on international tour with the award-winning Celtic Christian pop/rock band Ceili Rain, at Ripley's Believe It or Not! attractions, Ringling Brothers Circus, at Upward Unlimited awards night programs, and at conventions, corporate events, colleges, universities, medical centers, science festivals and museums, church youth events, amusement parks, fairs, festivals, and other events in over a dozen countries around the world. 

Despite a close call resulting in a near-fatal injury while swallowing 5 swords at once, Dan continues to amaze audiences with his skills. “I enjoy performing REAL feats that people think are impossible in order to prove how incredible the human body really is...” Dan explains. 

To prove his point, Dan swallowed a 30 inch sword while submerged 20 feet UNDERWATER in a tank of 80 sharks and stingrays for Ripley's Believe It or Not!, a feat witnessed by over 25 million viewers on over 400 TV stations around the world. 

As Chief Executive Director of the Sword Swallowers Association International, an avid historical researcher and collector of sword swallowing photos and artifacts, and the author of a year-long medical study on sword swallowing published in the prestigious British Medical Journal that won him the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine at Harvard, Dan is widely recognized as one of the foremost authorities in the world on the history of the ancient art of sword swallowing.

Dan and his wife Lisa live in Hartselle, AL where they raise Arabian horses. The Sword Swallowers Association International (SSAI) was founded to preserve the ancient art of sword swallowing, and includes sword swallower members from around the world (www.swordswallow.org). SSAI maintains a sister site with general information on sword swallowing for the general public (www.swordswallow.com).

Dan is available for appearances at corporate events, conventions, colleges, universities, fairs, festivals, amusement parks, artist tours, media interviews, talk shows, documentaries, films, TV commercials, science festivals and museums, medical associations, medical demonstrations, church youth events, Upward Unlimited Awards nights, and other bookings appearances through Cutting Edge Innertainment.  Dan can be reached at Dan@swordswallow.com