Helder Guimaraes Two-Day Workshop - May 26-27th - 12:00 - 4:00 PM

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