Are you a demonstrator or a performer?

HAVING LEARNED THE SECRETS and technique of magic do you give the same amount of time investment into presentation and stagecraft? Whether you perform on stage or at close-quarter, how people perceive you and how you present yourself is critical to magic success in my view. I recently enthused on this aspect about Geoffrey Durham’s new book [...]

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by John
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Do you do sponge balls

Of course you do – everybody does but I think we are all guilty of unwittingly revealing the secret. Let me tell you a story. When I was seventeen I did a show for a scout troop and performed a sponge ball routine. Two years later after my National Service I was asked to present [...]

Posted on February 16th, 2008 by John
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