A regular segment from Luna De Verano involves looking back on particular genres of magic performance through history, including old and rare film footage. This episodes segment focuses on magicians who defy gravity and float assistants, members of the audience or themselves.
Levitation
A levitation where the assistant floats above a blowing fan.
Chantatachán was a program produced for Telemadrid in 1992-93. We would like to thank Juan Tamariz and Luis Piedrahita for making this content available.
Italian magician Arturo Brachetti performs an imaginative stage act including a series of animations and levitations with his violin.
Grand illusionist duo Jonathan & Charlotte Pendragon perform the Steinmeyer/Gaughan Pole Levitation on stage on Chantatachán.
Kevin James brings a paper napkin to life on stage with a spectator.
Chantatachán was a program produced for Telemadrid in 1992-93. We would like to thank Juan Tamariz and Luis Piedrahita for making this content available.
In a performance where everything that can go wrong does, Otto Wesley attempts to conjure with a quantity of stuffed rabbits.
This performance by Chuck Jones and Company was recorded by Larry Thornton in Calgary, Alberta.
The featured illusion, "Through the Eye of a Needle" was created by British magician P.T. Selbit in 1924.
Dale Harney performs the Floating Lady on The Magic Palace.