Learning Objectives • Bonus • Course Design • Challenges • Safe space • Workload • Contributions • Venue • Satisfaction • Extra events • Teachers • Expectations • Value • Changes • Future • Final comments
Value
What is the most important things I brought with me home from this course?
Comments
1. You must apply the new knowledge or else it goes away.
2. I must keep the connections I care about.
3. Structure is valuable (for magic routines and life in general)
4. Importance of the gaze and when to use it.
5. Registering the events/items, reacting/engaging with the audience through eye contact, and acting.
6. Having an internal monologue to steer intentions and actions
7. The power of teamwork and timing restraints…and how this impacts communication, production, and creativity
8. I am in control of my own art.
9. Reflection and careful analysis is important / going back to the origins of a move (for example. how would I actually place a ball in my hand?)
10. I am an important asset to the art form 🙂
Att jag kan bygga en trolleri akt och visa den. Att tekniken inte behöver vara allt. Att det går att bygga ihop en akt genom olika moment. Att öva och åter öva. Ta hjälp.
crossing the gaze and which motion is more prominent to cover another motion.
The will to improve my work and look at it through a different lens. I guess what I mean by that is the inspiration and joy of making my magic better. I can not leave out the importance of my new friends.❤️
The people were very kind and nice to hang out with and I hope I will meet them later outside of the course also.
I’m capable of much more than I would have believed. Working in groups and brainstorming together can increase productivity greatly. I want to increase my knowledge in theatrical fields as I now believe that it’s one of the most important factors that could help me develop as a professional magician.
A strong desire to become a beter magician. To evaluate my own craft, to care about the details and to consider what is truly important when I perform.
Curiosity and a desire to learn.
I don’t know how to put in words “what was the most important”…there wasn’t “one thing”. It was many things. When I think about my week, I get choked up…it was so amazing, the things I learned and experienced were beyond my wildest dreams. It’s just something I know I want more of…is that bad that I can’t put it into words exactly? Something tangible, that I can put into words, are the friendships that I cultivated with people from other cultures. The entire experience is really priceless.
New ideas, networks, new material, confidence.
Confidence and a belief in my own ability . I’m not going to be performing at the Magic Castle any time soon but its no longer an impossibility.
I will Look, Think, Look, Act and I know now that I can produce a workable piece of Magic without plagiarising others.
We will never be experts. We will never know everything about magic
Methods for approaching routining shows and routining tricks. New contacts in the magic world.
I learn when I want to, not when I am taught.
An open mind, cards, coins, and pieces I haven’t played with much. If I was locked into only the things I’m overly comfortable performing I wouldn’t have gained as much as I did. When I would be in a group and they asked if I was able to perform
Friendships, connections, laughter. The experience of being away and doing things I love. More fuel for my fire that is so dear to me. One very different but amazing experience!
I learned that I needed to be authentic and real on stage and that I needed to commit fully to every show I did. I also learned misdirection techniques that I will continue to use for the rest of my life.
Do not be afraid to try new things
New friends. new more creative mindset, more hole-cutting, paper balls, masks, more latadana’s, stronger misdirection theories.
Not overplaying theatre, defining the magic moment (I had forgot about the effectiveness of this), that truly great magic does not need a telling story — the fascination of magic is enough for the audience to be enjoying.
As soon as I got to home I started to look my own material and tried to apply things we learned. After the course I have also been more excited about magic that I have been in a while.
The value of collaborating on ideas.
Being slower, new connections in magic, prop making, going 100% into what I’m doing.
Also found methods for routines I do at my gigs, for example how to produce a lit candle.
More experience, to be more “real”, to be bolder and to apply the techniques to more of my magic. It has really helped to shape the act I’m working on.
Confidence
The group working! The technique how we can create a new peaces of magic in just 30 minutes with few fellow performers.
1. Motivation to work on my acts, trying to make them better.
2. Self-confidence in performing magic.
3. A better understanding of the subtleties of the art.
The most important things I’m bringing home with me is the reminder not to stop working on the creative side of magic. The inspiration I take home is priceless.
Because of the prop-making class, I now know that I can make everything if I need. I feel that I can be more creative.
Be real.
Look out.
Make holes in things if you are stuck in a routine.
New friendships, a new perspective on my magic, and new ideas to work on.
Friends. Inspiration. Self-confidence.
Att allt är möjligt. Först var jag osäker om hur jag skulle kunna hantera klänningen, – nu älskar jag den. Hur ska jag kunna träna rösten? Nu har jag konkreta röstövningar. Hur ska jag kunna tänka på vinklar under bolltricket – nu vet jag hur jag ska stå, hålla min arm etc.
Man har förmågan till så mycket mer än man tror tack vare att man är i en miljö där det är tillåtet att misslyckas.
Friends, the feeling of being able to put together a piece in a very short time.
Knowing that if I have something that is ‘not too bad’, I can make it appearing a really good piece of art by slowing down to 50%, looking at the audience and giving it a structure.
Be real.
Take a chance and see what happens.
Ideas to multiplying bottles and creating effects out of things that annoy me
To be real in performance. Håkan’s session explored this and I really found this useful to learn how to understand that when we perform and say lines it’s important to be in the moment. To really talk to the people were are performing for and be present. It is difficult to do but being made aware of this was both interesting and useful.
Building the props with Tim Star was also a wonderful experience. Learning to make a prop in this way with Tim allows us as creators to take the ideas we have in our and make them real. Because we have the knowledge of how to use the tools required to build something from nothing.
And personally I discovered that I can do what I set out to do. And that I am a good performer even when I sometimes feel I’m not. And the the respect and support that my classmates have for me and the work that I do is truly inspiring.
Inspiration. Fuel for more magic is the main purpose for me. To meet others and to work on own material.
Håkan Berg att vara här och nu fullt ut när man uppträder. All hjälp jag fått av deltagare och att jag kunnat ge tillbaka. Teori och övningarna ger så mycket både med Leif och tom så det är svårt att plocka ut något särskilt.
Now I am full of ideas. We started to improve our duo act with Peter. And I had 3 routine ideas during the week that I started to work on on right away.
Känslan att inte vara ensam. Nu ska jag bara våga be om hjälp
The use of emotions in an act as a method and not only as a part of the presentation. The idea to think about something that you don’t like in order to create an effect. Indeed to start creating an effect from scratch by not thinking about tricks or standard effects but from what you like/dislike.
The workings with false solutions to misguide the audience. Also I´m very happy with all ideas and feedback on my work. It is inspiring to create new solutions for magical effects in my show.