Performing Magic for Children - Schenk & Sondermeyer (German edition)

There are plenty of books that tell you what to perform for children. Now there’’s a book that tells you everything the other books leave out: how to perform for children — and why. In Performing Magic for Children, Michael Sondermeyer and Uwe Schenk, who are not only professional magicians but also educational specialists, discuss every aspect of this difficult branch of magic, including: what children need from a magic performance the role of the performer how to develop a suitable performing persona how to select appropriate tricks for children how to make standard tricks suit children the pros and cons of using live animals how to design a successful act pacing, restlessness and attention spans how to select a child to assist how to handle infants, teenagers & adults what to do when a child cries how to prevent children from storming the stage at the end of the show and much more. In addition, two professional acts are described in which the authors explain exactly what they