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I faintly recall a female magician asking in this forum how she should dress for a performance.

This video shows that it doesn't really matter how you dress-up - it's how you end the performance that counts.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/489499/2624181%3Cbr%20/%3E

And more seriously (especially if the original performer somehow happens to be reading this) : Amazing showmanship around one of the most simple tricks in the world!

not Ursula Martinez again

She does more than this. And shes in Le Clique in london.

dup wrote:I faintly recall a female magician asking in this forum how she should dress for a performance.

That was me....and I'm not doing that!!!!!

dup wrote: Amazing showmanship around one of the most simple tricks in the world!

I don't think getting one's norks out is showmanship.

All she did to make this OLD video go viral, was take her clothes off. That doesn't take talent, skill or showmanship. Just breasts.

I think it's fairly demeaning and a sorry state of affairs that the old female magician every male magician can name is The One That Got Her Baps Out.

Finally - an act George King can relate to...

The thing is, she's very good at it. The sheer amount of thought and work that went into the finished act clearly shows.

The One That Got Her Baps Out

original title for an episode of friends?

daleshrimpton wrote:

The One That Got Her Baps Out

original title for an episode of friends?

A genuine LOL, well done sir!

Stardust -
I'm just saying this could be your rise to fame

Stewie -
If she were simply taking her clothes off, that would've been silly and demeaning. But she didn't. She created art by working on the movements, adhering to the beat and the music, and achieving a line of thinking that caused the viewers to see where she's going with the effect and still keep them at that point of "No way, she wouldn't do that... would she?"

Unfortunately, I don't have the physique needed to undress myself in front of an audience (not to mention my poor wife would sternously object). I also suspect most readers in this forum have at-least one too many dangling objects to duplicate her performance on stage. All the same, I think this part of a show should be taught as an example of how to achieve everything with almost nothing.

dup wrote:She created art by working on the movements, adhering to the beat and the music,

Kind of like a stripper?

and achieving a line of thinking that caused the viewers to see where she's going with the effect and still keep them at that point of "No way, she wouldn't do that... would she?"

Like the girls in the live shows in Amsterdam?

I just don't see the art in it, sorry.

dup wrote:Stardust -
I'm just saying this could be your rise to fame

And I'm just saying hell will freeze over first!

I am failing to see the art in it either. In a scene where there's so few women anyway, to set a bar that you have to take your clothes off to get noticed is not doing us that many favours.

I'd rather be remembered as the one with so-and-so cool trick, or the one with the dreads or the Victorian punk or something.

Anything but the one who has to take her clothes off to get remembered!

I admit to have never been to a stripper club, but I suspect that most strippers don't do art. All the same, stripping can be performed as an artful dance as well.

But again, the way I see it you can't separate her stripping from her magic. Both combine into one performance which is an act of art.

stardust wrote:In a scene where there's so few women anyway, to set a bar that you have to take your clothes off to get noticed is not doing us that many favours.

Hear hear.

Stardust -

I don't think she set a bar where you 'take off your clothes to get noticed'. If I happen to go to a magic show, and a female magician will go on the stage, I won't expect her to strip naked. I WILL expect her to perform interesting, attention-pulling magic in a manner full of showmanship - just like Ursula Martinez did.

I think Ms. Martinez nude magic act fits together, and that's her style and it's great. She didn't set the bar for female magicians, any more than Tommy Cooper set a bar for magicians just because his bumbling attitude made people like him. It simply fit his style, and people appreciated that.

dup wrote:Stardust -
I'm just saying this could be your rise to fame

Or maybe she could rely on talent instead of mammary glands?

It's pretty insulting to Stardust to suggest rather than use talent she should get naked in order to become famous.