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Vick Inner circle It's taken me 10+ years to make 1120 Posts |
"The mediocrity of most conjuring lies in the lack of feeling in the performer and, therefore, in spectators.
Unless the magician himself experiences wonder and amazement, how shall he infect his spectators with wonder and amazement." ~S. Sharpe Being new to magic you still should have the wonder and amazement. Never lose it! and always share it with your audiences, lift them with your presentations. Make it amazing, make it MAGIC! You owe it to the art and to all who have went before and will go after.
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3M New user Los Angeles, CA 59 Posts |
Very well put!
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Ed_Millis Inner circle Yuma, AZ 2292 Posts |
It's easy to lose the "wonder and amazement" when you allow yourself to become mires in the mechanics of routine, or even just one sleight. We then tend to shift our focus from then experience to the mechanics - and forget to shift it back.
"Mechanics", whether of a sleight, or of pacing, blocking, even setting up and packing away, are necessary. But they must be kept where they belong: functional parts of a good show, with a good show being an experience of wonder and amazement given as your gift to the audience. I've been fortunate enough to read some of the older magic books, and I am always going back to them, becuase they stress more of how to think as a performer. Most of the newer books simply tell you how to do the actions. That only you someone with a trick, rather than someone capable of impoarting a magical experience. Ed |
LeMagicien61 New user 12 Posts |
Vick and Ed; Thanks for posting this, being new to the Café and "old" to magic I need to spend more time reading these kinds of posts rather than looking for the next "move" or "trick"
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Funkytek Regular user 118 Posts |
This is a great post! not just for beginners but to all who love this Art!
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Harry Lorayne 1926 - 2023 New York City 8558 Posts |
Ed: I wonder into which category my books fall! HL. (For some of the posters here - I've been in magic for over 7 decades(!) and I still don't know the right way to go. Nice that some new folks do.)
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Funkytek Regular user 118 Posts |
Harry you ROCK! you fall under Old school magic! a Vet in the game Kinda like a General not knowing how to use the computer but knows the game lol.
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scottds80 Special user Victoria, Australia 730 Posts |
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kasper Loyal user 253 Posts |
"I was a magician until I learned sleight of hand and walked out on a stage." --anonymous--
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whiteoakcanyon Special user 899 Posts |
One of the reasons I like watching Losanders perform is that he always seems amazed when his props levitate...even after all these years!
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jpleddington Loyal user Lewisburg, PA 294 Posts |
Someone who in performance seems to me to have embodied this principle is Tommy Wonder. In his hands, a deck of cards (for instance) seems to have a life of its own, one full of surprises for everyone involved.
Thanks for this nice reminder, Vick. Cheers, Jason
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Simon Southern Moss New user 51 Posts |
So, how do you maintain this sense of wonder. Do you almost try to watch yourself, as though you are the audience? Do you remember the first time you saw the trick?
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Ed_Millis Inner circle Yuma, AZ 2292 Posts |
One element is practice / rehearse. Practice the moves until you no longer have to think about them; rehearse the routine until you can do it in your sleep. At that point, you remove one of the biggest distractions to your performance: "Am I doing this right?" Then you can let your mind go into the "wonder and amazement" reactions and audience interactions without losing the flow of your performance.
If you must concentrate on yourself and what you are doing, you will lose the ability to interact with the audience and feed off and into their responses. You also have little confidence, and that hinders your ability to project that sense of wonder. Ed |
Simon Southern Moss New user 51 Posts |
Thanks for your response Ed; that makes a lot of sense
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Lliam New user 70 Posts |
Doug Henning was a master at this sort of thing! When you watch him perform he seems just as exited and amazed as the audience!
"we must accept magic not as a puzzle to be solved, but as a mystery to be experienced" -Doug Henning Lliam |
Vick Inner circle It's taken me 10+ years to make 1120 Posts |
Had forgotten I posted this, lot of nice replies, thank you all
Another thing, at least for me. I become very fond of my audience (before I ever hit the stage, yes I wrote my audience and not the audience, that short time we have together their experience is in my hands and mind) and want to share an experience with them or create something unique, a space in time where amazement can happen and is the order of the day and not the rare exception.
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Ekuth Inner circle Floating above my 1538 Posts |
Here here!
I find you can connect with most folks on *some* level. Although there are the occasional "not interested" at alls...
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