DOUBLE DUTCH

MAGIC MASTERCLASS
So just where does a Magician go, to learn Magic?I'm off tomorrow, to Amsterdam. Leave on Passover, come back after Easter Monday: significant? I rather think so, because once again I know I'll return with my passion for the Art of the Impossible 'Resurrected'. Yes, there are Magic Conventions - but then there is Masterclass. It's just - A whole new dimension. The place where the 'real' Secrets get passed on. Students there all share this passion for getting good, then getting better. The same passion STILL demonstrated, by our -resident mentors Jeff McBride (imagine a grown-up Puck) and Eugene Burger (Scary Santa), although they've both been in the field of wonder-working forever, so have far better excuses than us to feel jaded.So what happens? You do your Act (you bet it's scary!), you get instant - and incredibly insightful - feedback from the Great Ones, watch others do the same. And you improve by leaps and bounds, over the course of a long weekend. Anyone who goes home without a notebook full of profoundly workable wisdom, well; they're just not writing fast enough.THE MORAL OF THE STORY: These guys know what real Magic is about. And - surprise - turns out it's so NOT about 'the tricks'. Actually, it's about YOU. And I don't care how Disney that sounds, it's true: you are the magic: what people go to see, buy into, want more of. And what could be more fun, or more important, than learning to be YOU?..
posted by IAN C @ 6:15 AM