Voila!
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Published:2020
Latifat Odetunde, 2020. "Voila!", At Our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships in Out-of-School Time Settings, Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Jessica Tseming Fei, Deepa Sriya Vasudevan
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Stage lights come on. The crowd awaits a life-changing performance, as the magician enters the stage.
The magician, knowing their power, casts a spell on the audience, preventing the watching eyes from blinking. Aware that Magic is about to begin, the magician fades to the background. As the audience witnesses Magic’s force, their eyes—dry as ashy skin on a winter day—stare, hypnotized. Magic opens a door into a mystical space of vulnerability and its power manifests, building and taking over the stage.
Magic comes in various forms, such as the type that is in the sleight of a hand, or an optical illusion. But what is constant is that all Magic changes the lens that an audience sees through. The job of the magician is to captivate the audience, and lure them in. Done properly, the show is no longer about the magician, but about the Magic itself.
