Performing Arts

Becoming a professional magician or entertainer is extremely demanding in the contemporary world. With TV, Web – specially You Tube and all the media available, contemporary men and women are so employed to see high quality entertainment, that if you cannot perform and do something really unique and exclusive, your chances to turn out to be recognized in the media and amongst agents are becoming smaller all the time.

Establishing a new career performing magic, music or other performing arts anywhere in the world appears to have changed when Web become a zillion dollar business some ten years ago. With immediate access to all the top artists by visiting their Myspace or You Tube media websites, who wants to go to a concert or to see a magician perform, when you have choice of the best performers and their greatest shows obtainable by the click of a mouse?

Having said that, I feel the demand for live performances is growing again all the time. It is very different to see something from TV or a computer screen, than to actually feel and be present at a live show. If we see a magic show on You Tube, we can simply feel it’s a camera trick. Furthermore a TV can’t possibly convey the atmosphere of a fantastic show, it can only give a partial encounter, whilst at the actual venue, we can receive with our whole body.

I had the chance to turn out to be a professional magician over fifteen years ago, when we had only TV and videos, Web was very little known at that time. I live in Europe Finland – a little country, with only five.5 million men and women, but also not so much competition by other professional magicians.

A magician is known as “taikuri” in Finnish. The word taikuri has little distinct meaning and ring than the English word “magician”, and not the exact same glamour, also a taikuri was very significantly regarded as a children’s entertainer at that time fifteen years ago, and I started my career by performing strong close up magic for mature audiences in restaurants and similar venues.

When I tried to get hired as a magician to a party or to a restaurant, I was usually turned down simply because “we don’t have any youngsters here”. Only following I performed to the restaurant owner and he saw what I did, he understood what my magic was all about. Following that booking a gig was easy, but I had to be there physically and do my magic, there was no chance trying to convince them by telephone.

The word taikuri, genuinely had somewhat poor ring to it in Finland at that time. But right now its distinct here and all magicians and taikuri’s are established as corporate performers, full scale entertainers and respected fairly differently.

So is it genuinely more difficult to start a career as a magician or entertainer right now?

I feel really that the situation is significantly the identical today as it was just before and the chances to construct a career as a magician or performer are still extremely excellent.

The beginning is constantly going to be a bit tougher, as you have to establish your self and discover a way to be known by the agents and bookers, but if you are excellent at what you do and you feel that performing in front of individuals is what you really want to do, then you have really excellent chances to succeed.

If you have performers blood running in your veins, go for it and make your dreams to reality, it is a different, but a quite fine way of living.