The development of wand magic has - until Harlan's unique re-interpretations demonstrated and
explained in this Lesson - been in the hands of USA and UK male white magicians who offer 'kid's
shows', 'children's magic shows - also sometimes synonymous with so-called ' comedy magic'.
The use of wands in these shows has usually been a cycle of bullying, belittling and similar
power - plays by the adult over the child. Wand magic developments have become encapsulated/ossified
in changing and/or increasing the ways the adult can humiliate and make a 'laughing stock' of
children; and in the physical properties of the materials used to fabricate the wand
Wands
are currently available in wood, metal, plastic, foam , cardboard, rubber; they bend, wobble, fall
apart, squirt liquids, create electric shocks.
Thus, in 'children's shows' an original
intent of the use of wands - misdirection by using a bigger object to hide a smaller object - is
missed, in favour of using a wand with the intention given by musical directors... as a baton or
'short thin stick' to lead other musicians
In this download/dvd Harlan stays faithful to
the wand as a vehicle of misdirectional intent while developmentally exploring the potentials for
different types of materials in slightly different spatial forms - eg. pencils, sharpies, straws and
other relatively 'short, thin sticks', along side wood, plastic and metal
So, in this
Tarbell Lesson Harlan provides in detail the design and fabrication of several different wands that
can be used in over 20 different routines, that restores the wand as an instrument of real/actual
magical intent and of magical consummation.
As usual, Dan shows the mechanics -
measurements, materials and their sources, qualities and quantities of fabrications, tools and
how/ways to 'get-into' and 'out-of' each piece of apparatus (including clothing and staging) used.
"Dan's the man/Hurrah for Dan/He's done it agan'.
Materials Inspector & Fabricator.
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