MAGICIANSHIP: a rare workshop with iconoclastic magician aladin

For the first time in a decade, master magician aladin is leading an intimate master-class/workshop on ‘magicianship’.

The half-day session will place in central London on a Sunday afternoon in 2009.

aladin’s previous workshops took place in the late 1990s:
- a two-day intervention taking place at the Jerwood Space in association with Battersea Arts Centre/British Festival of Visual Theatre
- a two-day encounter commissioned by Cardboard Citizens for CRISIS/Skylight, taking place at night at a cold weather shelter and also by day to inaugurate the Skylight Project on Commercial Street.

The event will be largely improvised and experiential.

Please consult the websites www.mugh-al.com and www.aladin.me for a flavour of aladin’s approach, the likely content of the workshop and a sense of the overall experience. Please click/consult related websites linked to the above two sites.

aladin has authored an article about his practice (including its Sufi antecedents) which is in the December 2008 issue of ‘Performance Research’: “Appearance, Reality and Truth in Magic” (“a seminal contribution”: MagicWeek)

Prospective attendees should apply by email to magicianship@googlemail.com.

Write as fully and personally as possible, indicating why you wish to attend and including information about yourself including web-links.

Include full contact details; do not send attachments.

You must be aged 18 or over.

The project is highly unlikely to be suited to ‘professional magicians’, those wishing to become ‘professional magicians’ or those preparing work for ‘corporate entertainment’.

‘Tricks’ will not be taught.

Acceptance of your application will be confirmed by email, when you will receive details of the location of the workshop.

Fees: aladin has donated this masterclass – it will be completely FREE OF CHARGE.

“Theatrical poetry” (ICA, London)
“Mystical cardmeister” (The Times, London)
“Extraordinary magician” (The Sunday Times, London)
“Magic how it should be performed” (MagicWeek, U.K.)
“Master of sleight of hand” (Evening Standard, London)
“Virtuoso magic and visual poetry” (Time Out, London)
“Astonishing legerdemain and prestidigitation”  (Whitechapel Art Gallery, London)
“The highlight” (Brunei Gallery, SOAS)

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