These days it’s still hard to beat David Copperfield. Who do you personally feel is the greatest magician of all time and who are the ones to watch out for this year?ĭavid Devant is the one that we all respect - for his creativity, his lasting legacy and his performing style. David Blaine and Harry Potter have both been good for magic and the Young Magicians Club has grown in numbers significantly since they first emerged. What stance does the MC take on the popular street magicians such as David Blaine and books such as the Harry Potter series?Īnything that attracts fresh new interest to magic - particularly among young people - is good for magic and for The Magic Circle. The set of cups and balls used by HRH The Prince of Wales when he took his Magic Circle exam in 1975.
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Props used by TV magicians such as David Nixon and Tommy Cooper Hundreds of posters - many of them of very high value The set of rifles used for the ‘Bullet Catch’ by Maurice Fogel The original robes worn by Chung Ling Soo This effect has been seen all over the world. Robert Harbin’s original Zig Zag lady illusion - the one that cuts a lady into three parts with her tummy section sliding away to one side. The Magic Circle’s collection started with items donated by the first President David Devant. Which are the most extraordinary objects in your museum? Leading female members include Debbie McGee (Mrs Paul Daniels), Mandy Muden, Romany (a former Stage Magician of the Year), Fay Presto and Mandy Davis (who runs the Young Magicians Club - the Magic Circle’s youth initiative) Women have been admitted as members since 1991. There are around 80 female members of The Magic Circle. Our motto is ‘ Indocilis Privata Loqui’ that means ‘not apt to disclose secrets’. As already stated, secrecy issues were at the very foundations of The Magic Circle. The other thing is that the secrets are often very simple - very far from the magical effect they can have. That said, if you give away the secret it spoils everything and there is no basis on which to build a great, entertaining presentation. Anyone can go to a magic shop, buy a trick and perform it but that doesn’t make them a magician. Success in magic is about much more than just the secret - presentation really is the key in most instances. MIMC is awarded by the President to members who he believes deserve special recognition and there can never be more than 300 MIMCs at one time.
AIMC is achieved by another exam in which very high marks are required. There are two further grades to aspire to - Associate of The Inner Magic Circle (AIMC) and Member of The Inner Magic Circle. What is the difference between being a member of the circle and a member of the 'inner circle'? Successful candidates can then call themselves ‘Member of The Magic Circle’ and attach MMC to their name. Examiners will be looking for magical skills, presentation skills and entertainment value. The exam is a performance of about 10 minutes in front of Magic Circle members. You may be encouraged to join a local club first and then reapply once your skills and knowledge have improved. You will also be told about the exam you will have to take so as to gauge your chances of success.
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You need to be nominated by two members and you start by attending an interview in which a senior member assesses how serious you are about magic, plus your knowledge and appreciation of magic’s history and heritage. We have around 1500 members, about one third of whom are based overseas. A member called Louis Nikola suggested The Magic Circle as a more suitable name and pointed out that it embraced Chapender’s initials. Martin Chapender died at the very young age of 25 and the original idea was to name the society in his memory. They also wanted to create a forum in which magicians could get together and share tips and tricks, safe in the knowledge that everything would remain secret. Weaver and Chapender felt it was important that magicians should come together to find ways to protect their secrets. Magic was at the height of its popularity at this time, but even then there was a problem with the exposure of secrets.
It was originally the idea of two magicians - Neil Weaver and Martin Chapender.
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