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Magicians are experts in producing memorable moments in their shows. In "Rehearsing Your Mistakes" by Ángel Simal, you will learn some of their secret techniques to achieve an outstanding presentation.
Forget about Murphy's law, and take a step forward to create your own events.
Whether you are a professional performer or just want to improve your public speaking, this book is for you. You will learn some practical improvisation concepts that could save your life when something goes out of the script, you will discover a simple method to do a proper risk assessment during your rehearsal, and you will get to know a bunch of powerful secrets that will create great emotions in your audience.
Within the 140 pages, you will also discover a complete study on creativity, the fantastic muse that all great artists pursue.
"Rehearsing Your Mistakes" is about a creative process where imagination, technique and experience get together to come to the rescue of the magician in distress.
Ángel Simal is a professional magician from Spain with wide international experience. This book was first published in Spanish in 2018, and has been widely praised by the magic community in Spain.
The foreword is written by the star magician and Grand Prix FISM winner, Norbert Ferré.
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"Angel Simal has done something unusual, which I found very interesting: he's written an entire work on how we can embrace our failures - both in our shows and in our thinking - and learn from them. It's a worthy task and I found the advice stimulating and useful." - Joshua Jay
"To mess up or not to mess up? That is the question. To mess up elegantly, to mess up deliberately, to mess up constantly, to mess up happily. Ángel Simal, thinker and magician’s lifeguard, tells us that mistakes are part of our lives. Hidden or at our sight, failure is always ready to bump into us. Not even the more prepared artists are safe!” - Jaime Figueroa
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Chapters:
Foreword by Norbert Ferré
Preface by the author
1. The Mistake
2. Improvisation
3. Forecasting the Future
4. The Search for the Mistake
5. The Point of No Return
6. Creativity
7. Final thoughts
