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Impossible is a World famous magic show comprised of some of the hottest names in magic. It features death-defying stunts, technological trickery, grand illusion and close up magic. The show is here in Dubai on September 26th at the Dubai Opera, fresh off of it's record breaking summer in London's West End. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
Transcript
00:00Impossible is the world's biggest magic show and it's so exciting because we show everything
00:08that there is in the world of magic and there's so much, there's grand illusion, there's escapology,
00:13there's death defying stunts, there's super dangerous things and then there's me sort
00:17of being funny and reading minds. So basically it's kind of the greatest magic show you could
00:22ever see because you will see every form of magic that's ever existed.
00:26I'm locked in a tank full of water with a lid, there's padlocks, so something like that
00:33and you never really feel relaxed. So I never turn up for a show going, oh we'll just get
00:37the show done today. There's always a little bit of pressure and nerves but I find that
00:42that's good. That's good. As soon as you're not nervous, I think that's when you need
00:47to start panicking.
00:48I really like to push the boundaries a little bit and get into the power struggles between
00:54men and women. Therefore I am the first woman who is sawing a guy in half on stage. So normally
01:02there's always a male magician with his assistants and sawing her in half but I'm going to perform
01:08that tomorrow with a guy.
01:10What I'll be doing is a mixture of close up street magic and because I used to be a break
01:16dancer, I have a lot of moves, dance moves and music in my act. So a bit of break dancing,
01:23back flips and street magic.
01:26I do close up magic, I do very big pieces of magic, I do some magic which is kind of
01:31rooted in storytelling. I do a bit of everything really so I don't know what to expect yet.
01:38I do a bit of improvisation so we'll see what happens.
01:41I am a mind reader who can't read minds. So the same as every other person basically.
01:47But basically my thing is I can't read your mind. No one can read minds but what I do
01:51is I use all sorts of different techniques to be able to get inside people's minds and
01:55then I find fun ways of kind of presenting that and being funny with it.
02:00This is a magic show and there's two females which is really something to talk about and
02:05it's wonderful because we can finally show that we can also do this and we can also do
02:10it well and we also have something to put on the table which is really exciting. That's
02:17probably what people are most shocked about when I say that I'm in a magic show. That
02:21a female magician isn't really something that you meet every day.
02:25I constantly keep practising and refining and making sure I'm more sharp because we
02:31do sleight of hand and you don't want to sort of get complacent and relaxed. You always
02:35want to improve yourself as a performer.
02:38I always think for magic you have to be very bright because you have to be able to do a
02:42lot of stuff at the same time. You have to talk and present it but yet you have to think
02:47and be alert yet you can't show it too much because otherwise you might see what I'm looking
02:53at or if I'm waiting or stuff. So I think the combination of all these skills is what
02:58makes it that you have to be a bit, I guess, intelligent to do this.
03:02When the show begins, as the audience is coming in, I'll find a little somewhere, a little
03:07gap to look through and I'll sort of just look at the audience and see what they look
03:13like. Yeah, you get a sense of what the audience is going to be like even as they come in.
03:18You listen, you just have to observe. Being a performer is just about being very attentive.
03:24Throughout history people have maybe seen magicians as dark and mysterious because maybe
03:29they were and they kept their secret. Magicians, we all guard our secrets and there's all that
03:34kind of subterfuge and hidden stuff and there was sabotage of magicians back in the 1900s
03:40and I think now it's more, it's kind of slightly more open and I think people are aware it's
03:47tricks and it's entertainment and we don't really have any of these powers and perhaps
03:51when people were trying to protect that and to make people think they had magic powers,
03:55we don't. Magic's not a real thing, we're just very good at making you think we can
04:00do it. That's our job is to create illusion and fantasy rather than to actually do it.
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