Magician, actor or what?

OliveroG · 02-21-2012, 01:22 PM

What about if you're not claiming to be a psychic or a wizard, but you're constantly representing a "character" when doing magic?, this took me to an interesting point since i heard Juan Tamariz quote, who said "Is not that i'm someone else when i'm doing magic, it is that i am truly me when i am doing magic." in my particular case, i believe this phrase it's correct, and ergo, i don't think we're actually "actors", neither by definition (because we're already avoiding the fourth wall, which should disqualify us an actors) and by its "meaning" of being representing something, atleast not in the kind of magic i do, i think it would be different if my specialty was the argumented magic, anyhow, i'd like to heard everyone's opinion, this is an interesting topic i believe.

02-21-2012, 01:22 PM	#1
OliveroG Marcos Olivero Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Venezuela Posts: 103	What about if you're not claiming to be a psychic or a wizard, but you're constantly representing a "character" when doing magic?, this took me to an interesting point since i heard Juan Tamariz quote, who said "Is not that i'm someone else when i'm doing magic, it is that i am truly me when i am doing magic." in my particular case, i believe this phrase it's correct, and ergo, i don't think we're actually "actors", neither by definition (because we're already avoiding the fourth wall, which should disqualify us an actors) and by its "meaning" of being representing something, atleast not in the kind of magic i do, i think it would be different if my specialty was the argumented magic, anyhow, i'd like to heard everyone's opinion, this is an interesting topic i believe.