Iterations centres Cassani’s obsession with the skill and precision of sleight of hand magic. It invites us to consider the performance of the seemingly impossible.
Through deconstructed routines and text that re-imagines the aesthetic tropes of magic, we are offered time to reflect and re-interpret. This exposé of the practising magician explores how impossibilities emerge through repetition, actions, gestures and self-reflection. See how placing a coin into a pocket becomes a lifetime's work.
Learn how hard it really is, to do something impossible so effortlessly.
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Credits
Written, choreographed and performed by: Tom Cassani
With support and mentorship from: Florentina Holzinger as part of Cassani’s research project ‘Expanded Magic’.
‘Expanded Magic’ was developed within the framework of: Forecast – Skills e.V.
The initial concept of ‘Iterations’ was developed with support from: Karen Christopher, CJ Mitchell, BOLD!, Augusto Corrieri, Tim Bromage, Ocean Stefan and Nik Taylor.
Using the rare circus technique of hair suspension as a medium for physical exploration this durational performance expands the space, time and site in which almost impossible images occur.​
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Combined with audio illusion see a body falling endlessly, a body suspended by the hair above broken glass, a body vanishing in slow motion flying through the space. This performance is part of Cassani's ongoing research into durational acts of illusion that map new territories in practices of magic, sideshow and performance art. This performance is modular and evolving and adapts to the space it is in.​
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Credits
Initial conception thanks to Arragua Lekeitio, The Centre For Live Art Yorkshire and the University Of Huddersfiled
