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.
Great magic will be found in old books not on You Tube or the latest Download.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …