Jonathon Bryce
@hatandhare · 4:07
What Makes a Magician? Part 3 - A reading from the book Art and Artiface by Jim Steinmeyer. Published by Hahne in 1998
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Then he begins to gently push, establishing the necessary reality, then levering it into magic. The proportion of reality to illusion has long been the purview of the theater and the dilemma faced by the wizards of the stage. That's my most favorite paragraph ever written in magic. Like I said before, I think it is the most important paragraph ever written in magic
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:14
Because performers are always in response to the audience. They're not in their room looking at the webcam at this point. When you're in performance space in a theater, when do you sort of defer to the response to the audience to teach you where you are in your set? I'll use it as a kind of a gig term. And do you shift and pivot when you're thinking that people are not yet in wonder or they're in a different place than you want them to be?
Jonathon Bryce
@hatandhare · 4:58
Deborah, thanks for the response. That is a lot to unpack in that response. There is so many different avenues, and I could talk for hours on that. Basically, we'll start with when you watch an audience, how do you know when they're astonished? Magicians. We typically become a magician because we saw a magic trick. We see that magic trick and we're amazed
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