Performance Ready | Audience Reaction
Audience reaction and the experience of magic is the only reason why we do this.
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Performance Ready | Classic Plots
Great magic will be found in old books not on You Tube or the latest Download.
Performance Ready | Listen to your Audience
Our audience can teach us a lot about ourselves. We must learn to truly listen to what they have to say about us and our magic.
Classic Routines | The Conus Aces
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 …
Performance Ready | Magical Opportunities
I practice everywhere. Coffee Shops, on Buses and Trains. I am writing this blog post on the train. I just enjoyed a random encounter with a lovely lady. She saw me shuffling and said. “Practicing your tricks are you”? “Yes mam” I said I then executed my Favourite Colour Change. Her gasp and laughter stopped …
Performance Ready | Mental Rehearsal
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 …
Classic Routines | Matching The Cards
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.
Classic Routines | Post Show Analysis
Time now is 12:33 am. I just got home and relaxed. My post show analysis begins and flows through this Blog Post in real time. Tonight was a lot of fun; seriously, this was top draw fun, magical expression, laughter and astonishment. MAKE THEM LAUGH AND MAKE THEM GASP. I learnt a lot tonight. I …
Classic Routines | Showtime Preparation
It’s showtime tonight. I am in the coffee shop with my Mother enjoying breakfast and thinking about tonight’s performance. Questions going through my mind. What routines would I like to share? What needs to happen in order for me to feel like a champion? This is a little game play with myself. It gets me …
Denis Behr | Hand Crafted Master
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 …