You Are Not A Magician
You are an actor not a magician.
I was just listening to a report from Jack Turk on how to improve your birthday party shows. Here is the link if you want to listen to it. It is worth your time.
He was talking about how we are not magicians but we are actors playing the part of a magician. It got me to start thinking about this idea and how we need to improve our skills as actors and not just in magic.
It is very important to perform your magic tricks well but is equally (if not more important) to entertain the children. The kids do not care how many moves it took you make a ball disappear and reappear.
It is all about creating wonder and astonishment, laughter and fun! What are you doing to improve your acting ability? This past year I bought 2 great books to help me improve my acting. One is on method acting and the other is on being a mime.
It is time for me to pick those books up again and work on the excercises in them. If you would like to read them the titles are, "On Method Acting" by Edward Dwight Easty and "The Mime Book" by Claude Kipnis.
"The Mime Book" is a great manual on how the body moves and looks when it does certain actions. It delivers more of the "how to" and "why" you would move a certain way instead of teaching moves that a mime may do.
Before I go here is a cute video with Robert DeNiro and Elmo showing how an actor pretends to be someone he is not.
Have a great day,
Steven Dickinson
Posted by Steven Dickinson at 1/10/2010 12:07 PM 
Categories: Acting,Performance,Thinking
Tags: Acting Performance Thinking
Categories: Acting,Performance,Thinking
Tags: Acting Performance Thinking
The magicians should know some type of acting techniques because it needs for their perfect performances. All know that the technique of magic is hidden within the actions that are showed by the magician. The perfect actions are very important for him. So for a magician the lessons of acting are very important. It helps to entertaining the audience and it attracts the audience more. The whole concentration of the audience will be on the magician’s action.
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