Basic technique : How to cut a balloon without scissors, without cutter... only with your fingers.  

The spectator and the magician each think of a card. In this new approach to this great classic by Dominique Duvivier, the magician’s card will change the whole deck…  

As the title suggests, a good presentation of this trick will allow you to create a standing ovation without difficulty. All the audience has to do is follow your instructions!

You show the first portrait facing the front and ask the audience in the center to clap. Then you show a second portrait looking to the left and ask this part of the audience to clap in turn. Finally you show a last portrait looking to the right and have the last third of the audience clap. Then you start to play with the audience, showing the different portraits quickly and alternately. Guaranteed impact!

Finally you decide which portrait and therefore which part of the room you prefer... But, just before showing it, you say: "If the portrait looks at you, clap and stand up! ".

This is the final twist: you show the portrait, and, as if by magic, EVERYONE stands up and claps!!!

This trick is absolutely brilliant for creating a fiery atmosphere in the room. Ideal for all your parlour and stage performances.  

A complete routine with multiple effects, games and comedies with the audience... We start with the Saga of the Aces: they mysteriously travel several times in different ways. Then we end with a kind of game, where the spectator loses repeatedly!  

By deduction, thanks to his intuition, the magician tries to find the chosen card of the spectator. He doesn't succeed at all; but what he does is much stronger!  

The magician tries to find the four Aces "blindly"; but he fails; but his mistake is not a mistake because these cards were planned; but these "wrong cards" finally change into Aces! And the chosen card that he couldn't find appears... in several duplicates! A series of misunderstandings... which are no longer misunderstandings, thanks to magic!  

Two cards are chosen and placed aside. The rest of the deck is clearly shuffled face up, face down. The first card chosen is shown, it is for example the 10 of Diamonds. The deck is ribbon-spread: only the diamonds are face up, the other cards are face down; and moreover, they are ranked from Ace to King! When the 10 is inserted in its place in the ribbon, the whole suit is now together! And the craziest thing is that when the second chosen card is shown, which is for example the 7 of Spades, without having touched the deck, when the magician ribbon-spreads it again, the Spades have taken the place of the Diamonds!  

A spectator finds, in a very clear way, the position of another spectator's card in the deck. It's baffling, funny and very commercial: you can create a wonderful moment of magic and interactivity with the audience. This trick combines, in a particularly clever way, an ACAAN with a "Double Reality" principle. You will appreciate the clever combination of sleight of hand with psychological principles, which reinforce each other. It is brilliant!  

Macau, gambling hell! You will face a spectator in a frantic Poker game under the strictest conditions: only 10 cards are used, the spectator will designate FREELY each time which card is given to the magician, and which card he will get for himself. Despite these extreme conditions, not only will the magician win, but he shows that he has predicted both hands in advance! Success guaranteed!  

A card is chosen in a neat way. The magician finds the name of the chosen card in two steps: first its suit, then its value! After explaining Ramon Rioboo's original trick, Howard Hamburg shares with us the personal touch he put on this effect.  

A Tsunami of madness. A card is chosen under completely impossible conditions. And yet, the magician reveals the card with 100% success (which was not completely the case with the original Bob Farmer trick). Success guaranteed!  

A very original trick. The magician places a blue-backed card face down on the table, and takes out the 2 Jokers from a red-backed deck. The spectator chooses a card from the rest of the deck, and places a sticker that he has signed on the face of the card. The magician never touches the chosen card, it is held between the two Jokers, which are used as tweezers. The blue-backed card is a duplicate of the chosen card! And although this card has been freely chosen by the spectator, when all the other cards in the deck are shown, everyone can see that the deck is made up of Jokers only! Everything is handedout for examination.  

Tsunami : mot japonais qui signifie "raz de marée". C'est un tour qui va dévaster le cerveau de vos spectateurs, qu'ils soient aussi bien profanes que magiciens. Ce Tsunami a été montré à Dominique Duvivier par Brother John Hamman. Le tour est impromptu; une carte est choisie et perdue dans des conditions impossibles. Et pourtant, le magicien va la retrouver ! Un véritable miracle !  

Le Double Fond opened its doors on June 1st, 1988. This exceptional archive allows you to "virtually" attend one of the very first performances of the Dominique Duvivier/Gaetan Bloom duo in Le Double Fond in 1989. This show has been split in 2 parts: Part 1: Dominique Duvivier Part 2: Gaetan Bloom  

A spectacular and visual card revelation technique! You cut the deck with one hand and the card emerges from the middle in an impossible way to be produced with skill and elegance.  

The magician shows the four Aces, and twelve indifferent cards (which are the 12 court cards of the deck, to make the contrast as clear as possible). The cards are arranged in four packets: one Ace under each packet, three indifferent cards on top. The Aces magically pass one by one into the leader packet. Each time, the packets of four cards are shown clearly: no extra cards, no missing cards. The trick is completely clean at every stage of the routine. This is as close to perfection as you can get!