As a artist who's chosen medium is magic it is my duty to share the incredible, to enable laughter, spur thought and encourage feeling a spectrum of emotions. All while creating a path for us to journey on together into the amazing.
A doctor may say "Trust me I'm a doctor"
I say "Open your mind, I'm your magician"
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
What Performing Magic can do
Another good show for a great group of people today. It's a wonderful feeling/experience to share a performance that touches people, give them laughter, encourages them to think, that emotionally touches and moves them and enables a perspective from a difference place, the small part I play in their creating a great time. It truly is the best thing I can do, for everyone.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Amazing what boundaries Magic can cross
I've been to the Cradlerock school the past 2 days promoting
http://www.illusionsbyvick.com/magicshow.html
the fund raiser I'll be performing next Friday May 14.
The students were great, a very diverse school to say the least. The younger students were getting so excited I had to stop performing in the crowd and move up to the stage (no more floating butterflies or Rites of Spring walking through the students)
What is really great/amazing is how performing(magic) transcends all the social boundaries. The too cool for school guys were sneaking up on stage through the wings to shake my hand. A student showed me I was their screen saver.
We have a unique ability as performers to reach our audiences, to give them something special. In some small way to reach out through all the day to day nonsense and create a space where anything can and does happen and imagination rules, at least for that short time we are in that spell together. Where everything for once really is good and for those few short minute everything will be alright.
I promise I'll keep making that space for us as long as you keep showing up to share it with me
http://www.illusionsbyvick.com/magicshow.html
the fund raiser I'll be performing next Friday May 14.
The students were great, a very diverse school to say the least. The younger students were getting so excited I had to stop performing in the crowd and move up to the stage (no more floating butterflies or Rites of Spring walking through the students)
What is really great/amazing is how performing(magic) transcends all the social boundaries. The too cool for school guys were sneaking up on stage through the wings to shake my hand. A student showed me I was their screen saver.
We have a unique ability as performers to reach our audiences, to give them something special. In some small way to reach out through all the day to day nonsense and create a space where anything can and does happen and imagination rules, at least for that short time we are in that spell together. Where everything for once really is good and for those few short minute everything will be alright.
I promise I'll keep making that space for us as long as you keep showing up to share it with me
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Another day, another good show. Good performance in a great situation. Here's to Sunday's upcoming show and the "Rites of Spring" being performed live for the first time.
It's another example of what a "magician" (that's what they are, I try to be a entertainer) could be if they really tried, applied themselves. How can any one not give the art all it deserves. To create, not imitate
Am extremely fortunate.
Meanwhile hard at work on the fund raiser for Cradlerock Elementary. Getting good assistance and support on the PTA's end.
Worn out now but got to get ready
It's another example of what a "magician" (that's what they are, I try to be a entertainer) could be if they really tried, applied themselves. How can any one not give the art all it deserves. To create, not imitate
Am extremely fortunate.
Meanwhile hard at work on the fund raiser for Cradlerock Elementary. Getting good assistance and support on the PTA's end.
Worn out now but got to get ready
Monday, March 8, 2010
Crazy .... or Amazing ... maybe a little of both
An amazing thing....... this past Saturday.
A potential client asked me about producing her daughter for her sweet 16th birthday party, she emailed the previous Saturday. I don't hear back from her so I think she's decided to do something else for entertainment. Out of no where she sends me a deposit ........ on Thursday ..... 2 days before the party.
Had given 3 options for the production. I finally get her on the phone and .... her daughter wants the Metamorphosis production ........ aaaahhhhhaaaa. I explain how challenging it can be and how people spend decades learning to do it well and ......
97% of the guests there are high school friends all done up and ready for a big night out.
This has all the ingredients for a disaster ..... I modify Metamorphosis a bit to make it easier. To her credit the daughter Jillian on the day of her Sweet 16 party spends the time I asked for rehearsal, she is willing to work to make the effect as good as we can in the time given and ........
We pulled it off!!! Pretty damn well, too.
Today .... the mother writes me an unsolicited glowing reference email
They were a great group to meet and work with, I'm really glad everything went well but ....
.... it still was crazy ;-)~
A potential client asked me about producing her daughter for her sweet 16th birthday party, she emailed the previous Saturday. I don't hear back from her so I think she's decided to do something else for entertainment. Out of no where she sends me a deposit ........ on Thursday ..... 2 days before the party.
Had given 3 options for the production. I finally get her on the phone and .... her daughter wants the Metamorphosis production ........ aaaahhhhhaaaa. I explain how challenging it can be and how people spend decades learning to do it well and ......
97% of the guests there are high school friends all done up and ready for a big night out.
This has all the ingredients for a disaster ..... I modify Metamorphosis a bit to make it easier. To her credit the daughter Jillian on the day of her Sweet 16 party spends the time I asked for rehearsal, she is willing to work to make the effect as good as we can in the time given and ........
We pulled it off!!! Pretty damn well, too.
Today .... the mother writes me an unsolicited glowing reference email
They were a great group to meet and work with, I'm really glad everything went well but ....
.... it still was crazy ;-)~
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
April 16th 2010 Illusion & Magic Entertainment Event
Am fortunate to be working on a very special show that will play April 16, 2010
Will keep you up to date as it progresses but for now suffice to say am hard at work on it and hopefully will be premiering new performance pieces that will provide astonishment and entertain while touching you emotionally and sharing something you will take with you to consider and will bring a smile to your face in the days after
Will keep you up to date as it progresses but for now suffice to say am hard at work on it and hopefully will be premiering new performance pieces that will provide astonishment and entertain while touching you emotionally and sharing something you will take with you to consider and will bring a smile to your face in the days after
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
On what "Magic" is
As magicians we often get hung up on searching for what magic is
For me it's when your 8 year old son
is more excited about his father performing for his school
On December 22nd
than he is about Christmas
For me it's when your 8 year old son
is more excited about his father performing for his school
On December 22nd
than he is about Christmas
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