Catch the tidal wave of demand for performers who can divine an audience's innermost thoughts and feelings. The Dance is the most advanced work on the subject of Cold Reading to date. Where many of the manuals in the past have told you what to do, The Dance teaches you the ins and outs of HOW TO DO IT!
Topics include ethics, reading onstage, misses into hits, skeptics and two professional mind reading routines.
Few teaching texts have been released to the performance community of theatrical mind readers and 'psychic entertainers'. Many are small pamphlets of 15-20 pages, which when available can command prices as high as £80-200. Unlike these 'traditional' texts, The Dance focuses on cold reading not as a product but as a process. The how's and why's of cold reading are presented to the student in a clear and concise fashion. Many books try to teach you what to say, The Dance teaches you how to say it, when and where.
An incredible value. 121 pages of professional quality material designed for the working performer.
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Luke Jermay has done it again! He has decided to release more of his awesome material, the routines which he uses to stun audiences around the world. ALAKAZAM MAGIC UK is proud to announce that we are publishing Luke’s new book, “Building Blocks”. In this important new volume, Luke has tipped the real work on using Suggestion Techniques. Luke covers the Definition = Creation theory along with several other techniques and teachings. This, coupled with his groundbreaking applications of the four Convincers, is enough to transform and amplify your performances right away. But that’s just for starters!
Wait until you see some of the effects he teaches. Imagine yourself performing these routines:
These are just a few of the incredible routines that Luke teaches in this new book. Every routine is accompanied by his suggestion techniques as applied to that specific piece, as well as his full performance script, plus many additional touches and ideas.
His sensational Out of This World is taken to an even more impossible level with just five un-gimmicked ESP cards. He has shared his personal Book Test, his acclaimed work on PK Touches, his thinking on playing cards in mentalism and so much more. He teaches the techniques of Anchoring and specifically how to apply them to magic performances.
By blending up-to-the-minute psychological techniques with some classic conjuring methodology, Luke has created cutting-edge Mentalism and Magick effects that will have your audiences believing that you can do anything! Going far beyond the material in his first release, 7 Deceptions, this new book really does teach you the “Building Blocks” of becoming an expert at previously jealously guarded techniques of suggestion and mind control.
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Illustrated by Phil Garner
A5, Hard-back, 96 pages
Between its black flock velvet covers and silver embossed title Mind Magic contains an excellent selection of tricks and routines aimed at the serious beginner. Yet nearly all would be equally at home in a professional's repertoire (in fact there were one or two items that I thought a little too good to be included in what is, essentially, a beginners book!) but, as Marc writes, "to fully understand these tricks and their working requires you to read the book and pay it some significant attention." This book will only be studied by the serious student.
Mind Magic is a collection of about 20 tricks and routines, from close-up to stage, each neatly broken down into manageable sections: You will need, The Trick, Behind the Scenes, The Performance, and Final Thoughts. A strong emphasis has been placed on "the performance" and it is here that Mind Magic really scores. All too often beginners are left to pretty much muddle through on their own, but Marc offers many worthwhile pointers performance wise and isn't afraid to go into detail when it is needed. Timing, mood, focus of attention, relating to your audience, pace, integrity and more are all covered. There's a real understanding of the performance of magic and its strengths that I found refreshing and readers will welcome, when working on these routines.
The book is nicely illustrated throughout and contains no "padding" - in fact it's crammed full of real mind magic.
It's a cracking little book, comes highly recommended and represents great value.
Review by MagicWeek
A Professional Card Routine in Three Acts, created by David Williamson!
Every family has their secrets. The Williamson family has Aunt Mary. A respectable woman with a murky past, Aunt Mary has finally come clean. Revealed here for the first time as a professional card routine in three powerful acts, Aunt Mary's Terrible Secret is well within the reach of any performer. Two audience members are invited to play a simple color matching game for the chance to win fifty-two dollars. The cards are unprepared, the money is real and this incredible, easy-to-master routine builds to a devastating climax that will leave your audiences stunned. After Aunt Mary's Terrible Secret, you'll never look at little old ladies the same way again.
Here's what the experts are saying... "Aunt Mary's Terrible Secret is too good to share. I have used this routine in paid performances for many years. I am as sorry to have to share it with the fraternity as I have been sorry to have to share it with the originator himself. Perhaps by buying this book, I will obtain retroactive permission for my past performances." Michael Weber "Quite simply, this is a highly commercial routine. It combines money, gambling, audience participation, and uncanny control over the cards to produce a routine that audiences love and remember." Darwin Ortiz "David has given the serious performer a truly masterful three-act professional performance piece that will leave his unwitting participants completely entertained and at a total loss as to any explanation." Roger Klause
Please note: This is a 44 page manuscript professionally produced by David Williamson and illustrated by Earle Oakes. It does not use gimmicked cards or gaffs of any kind. It is a complete and powerful gambling routine, that is insanely easy to do!
Approximately 8" x 5" this book contains over 40 pages. Illustrated.
This is the most important Mentalism book of the new millennium and qualifies for instant inclusion on everyone's 'five foot shelf'.
This hard bound, 466 page, 8.5 x 11 inch format book (with dust jacket) includes a CD-ROM (both Mac and PC formats) of printable graphics and props in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format.
Mentalism has a colorful history of cutting edge periodicals such as The Jinx, The Invocation, and Magick and since 1995, SYZYGY has been the premier publication for Mentalists.
Editor Lee Earle screened thousands of potential contributions to give subscribers the very best in Contemporary Mentalism.
Now the first five volumes are reproduced in a single, hard cover book! The index alone fills ten pages, listing material by category, contributor, and in the table of contents by title.
Occasionally, SYZYGY included professionally designed graphics layouts for props and promo materials to be photocopied for personal use. That material is now on an included CD-ROM (Mac and PC) in high resolution, .pdf format for your customization and printing.
