Pandora
Card Magic Workshop – Helder Guimarães
Duration:
2 Sessions of 4 to 5 hours each.
Number of Attendees:
Maximum: 12
Minimum: 8
Price:
$150 per Attendee
Goals:
· Learn theatrical ideas and concepts that can be used in a close-up performance environment
· Analyze routines presented by the attendees in effect, internal construction, technique, staging, rhythm, and communication and try to polish each aspect using techniques learned during the workshop
· Develop a critical analysis by each attendee about their work and about the other’s work.
Requisites:
Each one of the attendees should bring a card magic effect to present to the others attendees. The effect should be approximately 3 or 4 minutes long.
Schedule:
Session One:
· Introduction to the goals of the workshop and understanding the goals of each attendee.
· Presentation of each individual effect by the attendees
· Introduction of concepts like presence, posture, voice, rhythm, suspense moment, neutrality, spatial presence, movement, script and character construction
· Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the character in the effect presented and maximize both during the performance
· Search a more appropriate script for the effect presented, according to the theme and method of the effect.
· Analysis of the weak and strong points of the effects and try to use both in the best possible way.
· Analysis of the performance’s aesthetics and organize all the elements involved in the performance in the more direct and simple way.
Session Two:
· Complete any work on the attendee’s effects remaining from the first session
· Performance of the effects again, with the modifications that were discussed during the first Session;
· Reflection on the changes and the contribution to the final effect and the final performance.
· Discussion on concepts like aesthetics union, message, external elements to the magic environment, semiology of magic, improvisation, feeling of truth and scenic movement.
· Final discussion to answer any remaining questions
About the Workshop:
When: May 26-27
Time: 12:00 - 4:00 PM
Place: Jay Marshall Lecture Hall at Magic, Inc.
5082 N. Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL
773-334-2855
Cost: $150.00 per attendee