Another view of the Fabrication Workshop
people love what they see. It’s the magic of emotion, which
is the most important thing you can have present for the
audience to connect to. And magicians … not gonna say
every magician, but the good majority of magicians don’t
even understand. I guarantee most people that are reading this have never thought, when they perform a trick,
they’ve never asked themselves the question … what is
the audience suppose to feel? If you ask that simple question, what is the audience suppose to feel when you watch
this … then that will dictate what your movement is, what
your costume is, how you tie music into it, what does the
lighting look like? What does the set design look like? What
are your assistants or your cast doing? You have to have
that intent, and everybody’s got to be on the same page,
of what the emotional objective is for the audience. If you
have that, then you can work towards that, but magicians
think it’s all about this enigma, this puzzle, which is what
magic use to be. Magic is not about that for me. Magic is
far more important and should go under so much more
respect than just being a puzzle, it’s an art.
After visiting the warehouse and studios we made our way
across the car park to the second unit. If you have every
visited a large scale illusion fabricator before, you will have
something in your mind right now, as to what this area of the
facility looked like. The machinery on site looks like looks like
it is capable of producing just about anything, and it does.
A team is working on the fabrication of new illusions that
will eventually make it into the show at The Luxor as well as
constantly maintaining illusions and sets that are used in the
touring shows. Wow! What you would do to have a place like
this at your disposal.
The other half to this unit is incredible. It is like a theatre inside! They have recreated the setting for the live touring show
and it is a fully equipped space with blacks, front tabs and
full on lighting rig etc. This means that they can rehearse
and tech a full show on site before it goes out on the road.
The crew are just in the process of breaking down as The
Supernaturalists are about to head out on tour.
We head back over to the office where we conclude the
interview and tour.
David:
Obviously, you’re this huge brand … with what I’ve seen
so far, I don’t know how you’ve got the time to even
deal with this. What’s a day’s routine, what time do you
rise in the morning?
Criss:
Between 6 and 7.
I’m shocked as I’m fully aware that this routine includes two
shows in the evening and a late night finish. The expression
on my face said it all.
Banachek:
I’ve lived in his house a long time, trust me he’s up at that
time.
David:
So take me through a daily routine briefly?
Criss:
I sleep about 2-3 hours. If I get a good night sleep, maybe
5 hours. First thing I do is I train. I get up, and even though
it might be miserable, I get up and I train. I do cardio; I do
a little bit of MMA, a little big of weight training. A little
bit of those things, so I’m there for 60-90 minutes, but if I
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