Fredrick Turner

Reflections

Performance

  • Yoga of Conjuring – IV

    The Yamas The Sanskrit word, Yama, translates to “control” or simply “the don’ts.”  There are five Yamas.  They are Ahimsa or Non-Violence, Satya or Non-Lying and Truthfulness, Astayna or Non-Stealing, Brahmacharya or Non-Sensuality and Aparigraha or Non-Greed and Non-Attachment. Ahimsa Ahimsa is known to many through the life of Gandhi.  Through living Ahimsa and Satya… Continue reading

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  • Yoga of Conjuring – III

    Each limb of Patanjali’s Eight-Limbed path has a direct correspondence to learning and growing as a magician and the performance of magic.  For me, they are a path to being an awake and present performer. I came to this as process for my own development.  I’m sharing it here an invitation to explore, not as… Continue reading

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  • Nealist Questions to Wonder About

    When I see performances of magic, my questions to the magicians are two: Who are you?What do you care about? Sometimes I am asking because I have received no clues other than that they watch Jeff McBride and read magic catalogs or magazines. And sometimes they find the questions difficult to answer. I do not… Continue reading

  • Art and Magic

    The discussion – some may say argument – of whether magic is art is evergreen. It pops up in the online forums as regular as dandelions in the spring. I don’t believe it will ever be settled to the satisfaction of either side of the fence. If you can find it, magician and filmmaker, R.… Continue reading

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  • Practice and Performance

    Think of the time spent practicing sleight of hand and the improvements that can be achieved, well this applies to performance in exactly the same way… it’s a skill. When performing you are integrating many challenging and complex elements. You are also making discoveries about yourself, them and magic itself—the key is to do lots… Continue reading

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  • Impermanence

    In the essay, The Architect, found in Volume One of the Books of Wonder, Tommy Wonder states: …magic is not a material thing, it can only exist in performance. Magic exists only in relationship between self and other – even if that other is oneself. It exists only in the space that is co-created between… Continue reading

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