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Paul Jester Special user UK 759 Posts |
I'm going risk my neck on the chopping block here... I work in tails, wear white gloves, and for the first 3 minutes of my act I produce spring flowers (and a silk fountain) and people love it! I have arrived at shows to find audience members who've asked me if I'm doing the flowers, and had people come to see me after hearing about the man who pulls flowers from the air.
A few notes on my routine, the flowers are produced in singles only, in a sequence similar to Buckinghams Misers dream (try backpalming flowers). The gloves are there for hand to hand transfers, and change into the silk fountain half-way through the single productions. I do a lot of original things with the flowers, as I've applyed everything I know to them from coin and card work, you know, a chanin coin production with a white silk looks beautiful... Now I know no-one believes they're real flowers, but I work to music, I 'smell' them when the first few are produced, and people afterwards have talked to me about the flowers, so they understand what they are supposed to be. I believe their reality is second to the emotion they create. People know what flowers are and mean, fake flowers still conjure up the same emotion and connotations as real ones, and that's what's important to me. To me, and in my experience, to my audience, it's what flowers represent that's important, whether they're fake flowers or real flowers, they both represent the same thing. As for the folding up, it's a wonderful thing, that you can produce something that packs so small, yet opens up so big. People never realise just how small they go, even if you produce them badly (from an obvious steal say) by the time you produce the 5th one people already believe you couldn't fit that many in your hand... and in a Vernet holder you can fit 15 in! And people often respond on the purely visual level. When I produce parasols, it fills the stage, people do know that they pack small for sure, but they still can't deny that the stage is full, they apparantly came from no-where, and they love it, it's been highly requested that I perform them, so much so that I'm working them into my regular act. I figure if your audience is thinking about how they fold up, or that they're fake so don't matter or mean anything, then you're not doing your job properly, because they can be wonderful. If you're producing a bunch and don't know where to go from there, then I'd suggest splitting it into two, and then there's a way to make them fall out into chains (The New Magic of Japan 19?? Kaufman). You can make a routine from flowers, but it'll be a headache. I don't believe bunches are the best way to use them though. I hope someday you'll be able to see my work on spring flowers, Paul |
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Sir Pat-Trick New user Cincinnati, Ohio 54 Posts |
I agree whole heartly. I was siimpling looking for a flashy production with them, and they work for what I need them to do. The audience knows they are there to see a show and they give into the "laws" of theatre.
Trick is in the Name!
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