Silent Study

[BenHart]

Hi Teller,

I have a few questions about performing magic silently.

Did you study mime, dance or any other kind of performance? What do you think are the biggest difficulties and solutions to presenting (and communicating) magic to the audience?

What do you feel is originality in magic and theatre?

BTW. I LOVE your coins and goldfish routine. A Simply stunning, inspiring performance!

Thankyou,
Ben Hart

[Teller]

Hi Teller,

I have a few questions about performing magic silently.

Did you study mime, dance or any other kind of performance?

I had a great acting coach in high school, who was also my literary mentor in drama. It's my sense of composition that's my strongest card.

What do you think are the biggest difficulties and solutions to presenting (and communicating) magic to the audience?

Three things. Getting a really beautiful, new idea is hard. Lots of thinking involved. Then there's composing that idea so that it unfolds with layers of surprise. Then there's the execution, which in magic is an all-or-nothing proposition. Either it's perfect or it's stupid.

What do you feel is originality in magic and theatre?

Something that makes you aware that you've never seen its like before.

BTW. I LOVE your coins and goldfish routine. A Simply stunning, inspiring performance!

Thankyou,
Ben Hart

Thanks. It was about two years of thinking and six or eight months of development. The interesting thing about being sixty years old is one starts to realize that developing tricks needs to be thought of in terms of years, not weeks.