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karbonkid Special user 951 Posts |
This is something I have been thinking about recently and a good friend and I had several long discussions last night about it, but, I wanted to know if your past/upbringing, etc. influences your performing persona when you do your magic? I know mine does.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Chung Ling Soo is an example who shows just how different from yourself you can be, if you want. However I think his past must have had something to do with the performing persona he took on.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Margarette Special user Memphis area 956 Posts |
Absolutely, my past and upbringing influences my magic and performing! All of my story telling magic is based on actual experiences from my life (with a lot of poetic license used, of course). I actually had one magician tell me that if he watched enough of my performances, he could probably give me a fairly accurate description of my life's story.
Margarette
The only stupid question is the one not asked.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Good topic.
Exactly why many of us get limited by self involvement as opposed to offering entertainment. It's NOT supposed to be about us. When we write up something, and learn to perform it... the past may both inspire and limit. Going from writer mode to performer mode can be very difficult as we struggle to express our best interests and somehow find a balance with our unconscious needs and try to express things which may not be of interest to audiences. What the writer can use for stories and what the actor may (safely) use for process may be close for some of us and may need to be distant for others.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Mitchell.Stafiej New user Quebec 61 Posts |
I often bring up stories from my past in a performance, stories allow a connection with your audience.
Ever since my grandfather passed away, my style changed, not too drasticly but enough to notice a change. I now have a darker touch to my magic, my performances are not the bubbly ones like they used to be, there are still good jokes here and there, but a darkness consumed my style and stayed with me. Mitchell |
kregg Inner circle 1950 Posts |
Yes.
"Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty."
POOF!
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
Absolutely! Some of the routines that play the best for me are ones that weave fiction into my own past. Grounding a story in my own experiences tends to give the entire story an edge of credibility. At least for me, to have a strong mental image of something true, helps me paint in the details.
Certainly a far cry from my naive early attempts at patter at the age of 7 or 8... "During my recent trip to Egypt..." ~michael
~michael baker
The Magic Company |
kregg Inner circle 1950 Posts |
Michael,
When I was a kid I would change the script to, "My Grandparents brought this back from Egypt..." Kregg
POOF!
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cinemagician Inner circle Phila Metro Area 1094 Posts |
When I was a kid I used to change the script to, "My Grandparents went to Egypt and all they got me was this crappy magic trick."
...The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity...
William Butler Yeats |
Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
Consider me disadvantaged... my Grandparents never went to Egypt.
~michael
~michael baker
The Magic Company |
RandyStewart Inner circle Texas (USA) 1989 Posts |
Quote:
On 2006-06-08 17:07, Michael Baker wrote: Hahahahaha! Funny! You went there when you were 7 too!? Seems I was all over Egypt and all before the age of 10! Hahahaha. Reminds me of The Amazing Jonathan who purposely chose these words to push things into the 'ridiculous' arena when showing a small ball used in a Kevin James Snowstorm stool routine "And now the mystery ball of Iran". Mystery ball of Iran? What the!? Can't get more ridiculous than that. |
Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
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On 2006-06-08 20:57, RandyStewart wrote: The Jumping Knot of Pakistan???
~michael baker
The Magic Company |
Neale Bacon Inner circle Burnaby BC Canada 1775 Posts |
I don't know about my upbringing, but certainly I am influenced by performers I saw as a child. Not to be like them but to create those same memories for others like these performers did for me.
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