What: Jaana Felicitas & Nikolai Striebel Lecture
When: Monday May 11, 7pm (doors open 6:40pm)
Where: Magiestrale, 7958 16e Avenue, Montréal, QC H1Z 3P5
Cost: Just 30 bucks (Save 10 bucks until May 5)

Magic & Movement

Magic doesn’t only happen in the hands. It happens in the body.

In this lecture we explore the connection between magic and movement. How timing, posture, rhythm, and direction shape what an audience sees— and what they don’t see. Sometimes a small shift of the body is stronger than the most complicated sleight of hand.

Using pieces from our own work, we share ideas, techniques, and practical thinking about staging magic physically. How do you guide attention without words? How can movement create meaning, tension, and surprise?

Combining our knowledge in dance, theater and manipulation we want to give you practical tools that you can use in all of your magic pieces and give you little ideas on how to make them richer and more unique.

Emphasizing what teamwork can do for the art of magic and what makes magic different from other art forms this lecture is given you both a theoretical and philosophical approach to the art of magic.