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Part 5:
On this DVD you will only learn 3 tricks, but what tricks!
"Card Growth" is the title of an incredibly astonishing, highly visual transformation. The performer grabs a regular playing card, throws it into the air... the card falls back down... is caught... and suddenly becomes a giant card!
An ideal flash effect that will pull even the sleepiest spectator out of his seat, but which can also be sold as a kind of gag, for example by showing a card previously chosen and found by the artist, pretending that the audience cannot clearly see the card's value and for this reason, ie for the sake of better visibility, transforming it into a giant card.
Next comes the routine "Ball Games" - a well-known classic, but with the "de Cova Touch":
While two spectators hold a transparent cloth between their hands, the performer takes three balls in one hand, from which they move invisibly one after the other into the other hand and from there fall into the cloth.
Then the action changes - the magician puts two balls into one hand, puts the third in his pocket - and immediately the pocketed ball goes back to the other two balls in his hand.
The whole thing is repeated a few times, then two balls go into the pocket and only one into the hand.
The audience is allowed to guess again, but no matter what they say, they are always wrong, because when the hand is opened... a lemon falls out!
The third trick is Alexander de Cova's "Premonition Plus" , one of the most powerful effects in his repertoire, an effect which - as I have often experienced myself - leaves the audience absolutely speechless.
On this volume you can see the exact presentation, all the finer details of the demonstration (no sorting case, no subsequent removal of the card case, etc.).
You will hear his performance, in short, everything that gives this piece of art its powerful effect.
What happens? The artist presents a card case containing a deck of cards. He then invites a spectator to choose any card. Once the spectator has chosen the card, the deck is removed from the case, and the spectator is allowed to flip through all the cards in search of their chosen card. But surprisingly, the deck consists of only 51 cards – one card is missing, the very card named by the spectator!
But no problem, the artist reaches into his pocket and pulls out a card he had put in before the performance... the one he chose, of course!
Duration approx. 60 minutes
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