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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
The unexamined routine is not worth performing.
$20.00
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Brian Miller is recognized as one of America's "Best Small Venue Performers" by Campus Activities Magazine (2013 Reader's Choice Awards).
These are the companion notes to Brian's lecture, entitled For Your Consideration. This manuscript focuses on the philosophy of magic performance, but also provides the explanation of four original effects.
You do not need to have seen the live lecture in order to get absolutely everything out of the manuscript itself, since it was written to be self-contained.
Theoretical topics include:
* Magic as a form of intimate, interactive theater
* Measuring your success as a performer
* How to make your performances work for your clients, not just your audience
* Direction versus misdirection
* Past versus present in magic
* Exposing a gimmick
* Memory and doubt
Effects explained:
1) Clowns and Noses - a sponge balls routine that gets the most mileage out of the least work, prep, and pocket space;
2) Experimental Imagination - a gaffless, impromptu variation on Hofzinser's classic "Everywhere and Nowhere";
3) Copper Silver Simple - a devilishly visual method for changing a single copper coin into silver;
4) Chicken Bones - a wild take on the "marked deck" genre, this was Brian's closing piece for years.
You will learn every line of patter, moment of direction, the choreography and motivation behind every move. In addition, you will learn the proper technique for a variety of sleights, explained in full.
