Behold! Unlock the secrets to enchanting illusions with Nate Staniforth’s ‘Making Tricks Into Magic’! Learn techniques to captivate your audience. Download instantly!
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Unlock the Secrets of Enchanting Magic with Nate Staniforth
Discover the art of transforming simple tricks into unforgettable magical experiences with Nate Staniforth’s Making Tricks Into Magic. This instant download course is designed for magicians who want to elevate their performances from mere tricks to moments of true wonder and awe.
What You’ll Learn
- Two Original, Unpublished Routines: Master Nate’s close-up workhorse, Rubber Band Through Spectator’s Arm, and the powerful mental magic piece, Name, used to close his stage show.
- Performance Techniques: Enhance your act with tools like the use of silence, managing dramatic tension, and creating atmosphere.
- Creative Models: Learn the Cone of Attention, Cancelation, and Layering to make your magic more impactful and memorable.
Course Features
- In-depth lessons on technical considerations, performance strategies, and the inner game of performing magic.
- Practical examples and applications to integrate these techniques into your own performances.
- Guided questions to help you apply the concepts to your unique style and repertoire.
What Magicians Are Saying
“This is probably the best $50 investment into magic that I’ve ever made.” – Daniel Jaspersen, Professional Magician
“This should be compulsory for every performing magician.” – Jez Rose, Professional Magician
Description
Why is it so easy to deceive an audience but so hard to enchant them?
‘Making Tricks Into Magic’ is an online course about making magic tricks feel magical. We look at technical considerations like structure and design, performance techniques like the use of silence and the management of dramatic tension, and intangible factors like atmosphere, character, and mindset.
You’ll learn two of my favorite inventions—a close-up workhorse and the closer to my stage show. But mostly it’s a collection of specific tactics and techniques to amplify the power of any piece of magic—to make it stronger and more effective, and, I hope, a little more magical.
“…a literal game changer.”
DANIEL CHARD | PROFESSIONAL MAGICIAN
“This is probably the best $50 investment into magic that I’ve ever made.”
Lesson Guide
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Welcome and Housekeeping
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An Introduction to the Problem
Section 1: Technical Considerations
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Example: Rubber Band Through Spectator’s Arm tutorial
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Effect Design Part 3: Layering
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Technique
Section 2: Performance
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Tension and Release
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Atmosphere
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Character
Section 3: The Inner Game of Performing Magic
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Closing Thoughts
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NEW: Questions and Answers
“. . . it reminded me how much of a difference there is from someone merely showing tricks compared to Nate’s way of affecting his audiences by creating true moments of magic . . .”
– Marvin Berglas
Course Features
TWO ORIGINAL, UNPUBLISHED ROUTINES
Making Tricks Into Magic features two of my strongest pieces. Rubber Band Through Spectator’s Arm is a close-up workhorse—the sort of anywhere, anytime effect that you’ll end up doing everywhere. Name is a piece of mental magic I use to close my platform/stage show. It’s one of the strongest pieces in my show—certainly the strangest—and I teach it here as a way to illustrate some of the techniques we explore during the course.
SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
We’ll unpack a collection of tools designed to amplify the power of your performances, from standalone techniques you can add to your show tonight to more foundational skills like the use of silence and the manipulation of dramatic tension throughout a routine. These techniques are style-agnostic so you can integrate them into your work regardless of your performance character and can be used in both close-up and platform/stage environments.
CREATIVE MODELS FOR STRONGER MAGIC
During the course we’ll examine a few different models that can improve the impact of a piece of magic. The Cone of Attention is a tool to guide the spectator’s experience throughout a routine so the effect is clear and the method is invisible. Cancelation and Layering are two techniques to enhance the impossibility of a piece of magic, both during the performance and in the audience’s memory afterwards. Each of these models are presented with practical examples and applications, and also with guided questions to help you apply them to your own work.
“This should be compulsory for every performing magician.”
