Magic
and Levitation
The
ability to levitate has usually been connected
with magic, whether it be modern street magic
or even strange practices such as black magic.
David Blaine is one performer who has popularised
levitation and bought it to the mainstream,
levitation alone made Blaine’s name and transformed
an amateur magician into a worldwide celebrity.
Shortly after the release of Blaine’s first
special, “Street Magic” many people closely
associated his levitation as black magic, which
goes to prove the power of illusion.Levitation
however, does not only include self-levitation,
with modern resources, such as Ellusionist,
many people govern the ability to float objects
such as dollar bills and credit cards.The
beauty of levitation is the impact it has upon
lay persons. When spectators watch card magic,
they enjoy the effect, but also know the magician
is performing some kind of sleight of hand.
But with levitation, they have no other option
but to believe what they are seeing is REAL.
Levitation really digs the reaction out of people,
even if they don’t regularly enjoy watching
magic.
In
the magic scene, there are many different variations
and products relating to levitation. From wonderful
self-levitations such as the King Rising, to
other terrific levitations such as the Zombie
ball and levitation of small objects. Ellusionist is a great place to begin for learning and performing
the basis of levitation, you can perform powerful
and different types of levitation within hours.
Check out the “How to do Street Magic” video
from Ellusionist.
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