Performance Ready | Developing Your Script
A great performance stands or falls on the quality of the magic, the script and the impact of the delivery.
A great performance stands or falls on the quality of the magic, the script and the impact of the delivery.
Audience reaction and the experience of magic is the only reason why we do this.
Creating magic is really problem solving. Asking questions, trusting the answers that come and then test driving for confirmation.
When I first read this routine, it made no sense to me. It’s the first routine in the last chapter of The Royal Road to Card Magic. Jean Hugard described it well. I followed the instructions and still, the experience of it was lost on me. It would be many years before I saw the …
This topic represents my current thought process. I became fascinated with this once Darwin Ortiz released his book Designing Miracles. This is the Play Book on routine Construction, Design and Deception. Here is my attempt to document my thoughts and understandings of my studies so far. I will use my routines as an example to …
Welcome to this new series. Performance Ready will be a series of conversations that looks at our pre show rituals. My Blog on this subject inspired this – I saw a connection and thought this would make a great series of topics. This first topic addresses Mental Rehearsal. My friend Raj Jethwa suggested this particular …
This Post is dedicated to Tommy Wonder The Card in Ring Box is a classic of magic, not just card magic. In fact, the effect is bigger than the props used. This is an important distinction because with such a big effect at stake, it presupposes this can work for a large audience, which it …
Classic routines in card magic don’t come any better than this wonderful premise. Let’s enjoy a video performance before delving into this conversation. I first learnt it in The Royal Road to Card Magic. I have lost count how many times I have referenced that book on this website. My dear readers, followers, members of …
Dai Vernon’s Matching the Cards has stood the test of time. It grown into a full mature interpretation call 12 The Hard Way by Darwin Ortiz.
These books are modest in comparison to some. Thin, slim and yet, HUGE, in content. I love the work of Denis Behr. Superb effects, rigorous analysis which I love and integrity towards moving our subject forward. No watered down effects, just good strong magic with an efficient methodology that gets the job done. Easy, difficult …