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MrCyNic Loyal user England 238 Posts |
I worked as a Resident Magician in a toy store for a while, and wound up doing a lot of close-up (grabbing distance) shows for teenagers. I quickly found that you really need to prevent the confrontational relationship that can arise between performer and spectator. They really need to be on your side, so I ruled out sucker gags and jokes at a volunteer's expense. No "guessing game" effects, either.
I also think it helps to keep your routines hard-hitting and always rolling. With each trick, I'd allow just enough time to get the reaction and then move on, and I'd rarely switch props (if I started the routine with a deck in my hands, that same deck stayed there until the end). That helps to develop a continuity and maintain control over the spectators' attention (in a toy store you get a lot of competition for that). Unlike a lot of magicians I've seen, I never actively discouraged grabbing. With teenagers in particular, I found that noticeably resisting attempts to examine my props really killed the relationship. It's an overt exertion of authority, and that was what I hated the most in my teens. In fact, I always tried to build attractive "grab moments" into my routines, at places where I knew I was safe. That way, the spectators' curiosity would be satisfied at times of my choosing, the performer / spectator relationship was kept co-operative and the magic was never compromised. Cheers, Cy. |
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eggshell Regular user Chorley, England 146 Posts |
This depends a lot on your audience so I can't say this is all teens but you will know your peer groups likes and dislikes so why not try to adapt tricks to something thy would recognise. My kids are a bit younger than teens but are into Yu Gi Oh and Soccer, and so I can quite easily get them interested in card tricks if I use Topps Traders with a topic they like. For instance I have a pack of soccer cards that are all different players at first but all change to the player that a spectator picks. You can actually make this funnier than with normal cards by forcing a really poor player as the card picked and then changing the whole pack to that player. To the general groans of other kids.
NB this can be quite cheap if you shop around on the internet as you get some good deals on these kinds of cards. I'm sure in the US you could do similar with Magick cards or Baseball, Basketball, Football cards and get a great response.
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