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 new way to make canes appear on stage. This video contains professional principles: to hide the canes on oneself, to perform an invisible charge, to blend technique and gestures. These principles are also applicable to objects other than canes!  

A great classic of close-up magic. How to give the illusion of swallowing a knife! Easy to do, but very deceptive.  

A very strong impromptu trick with everyday objects. A spectator draws a simple geometric shape on a sugar cube with a pencil. The sugar is placed into a glass of water, the spectator's hand is placed over the opening of the glass. As the sugar dissolves in the water, the "emanation" of the inscription will rise into the spectator’s palm, and he will be amazed when he discovers that the inscription is now reproduced on his own hand!  

A great classic of our Art. The tricks that take place in the spectator's hand always have a strong impact. The spectator closes his hand into a fist. The magician does the same; then he passes the flame of a lighter under his closed hand... and shows that a burn mark has appeared in his palm. By a magical sympathy effect, when the spectator opens his hand, what a surprise when he will see that inside it, there is the same mark! An impromptu trick that is sure to impress your audience.  

An interlude of parlour and stage magic. This is one of my favorite visual magic sequences. A candle appears and disappears twice with great naturalness and simplicity. The second time this candle turns into a clown's nose. Natural Tenkai palm, misdirection and timing theory explained in great detail with wise comments by Dominique Duvivier.  

The magician shows a small box from which he takes out a red-backed deck of cards; the box is now empty. A spectator is invited to hold the deck in one hand, and her other hand is held by the magician. The magician explains that he is going to transmit a magical effect through the spectator, into the deck of cards! The spectator will then determine a card in a "virtual" blue deck. This card will appear in real life, folded four times in the "Dream Box" which was empty. The red cards are shown, they have all disappeared (i.e. they are blank on each side), except for one card, which is the card chosen by the spectator! Success guaranteed!  

It's like the Inexhaustible Vase, but reduced to an everyday object, with many possibilities. It's a very visual running gag. You do a trick, you wipe your forehead with a sponge, and you wring it out in a bucket... the sponge is really full of liquid. You put the sponge back down, perform another trick, and take the sponge one more time to wipe your forehead. Bingo... it's full of water again. Finally, you can take the bucket full of all this water poured, and the liquid turns into confetti! Great if you're also doing a clown act. My dear James Hodges used it for one of his shows at the Maison de la Magie in Blois, France.  

A gag, just an emcee's gag, with a punchline, but also a magical appearance of cards, plucked from the hat... My friend Jeff McBride wanted to include it in his series on automatic sleight of hand... An honor!!!  

The perfect combination of a Book Test and a card trick! The effect, as well as the techniques used, are subtly combined to create a beautiful routine! And it's very easy to do. So there's no more hesitation!  

Dominique Duvivier's presentation of the famous Puzzle trick, in which a piece is added several times, and the puzzle is always the same size each time. In this version, the puzzle is placed in a template which proves that the dimensions have remained the same. And everything is handed out for examination at the end!  

An atypical three-card monte with water. Ideal for children’s shows… but not only that !  

All you need is a box of matches to perform this amazing trick. You show your empty hands and a normal, empty matchbox. However, a single magic gesture is enough and you make banknotes appear! It is incredible! To do and to do again!  

A safety pin, pinned on a handkerchief, is magically moved on it without damaging it! Crazy! We love this kind of magic trick that can be done with stuff that everyone has at home.  

With a simple scarf and a rope, achieve a striking effect! You tie a knot on a rope and suddenly a scarf appears tied, trapped on the rope. Striking and very easy to do!  

A very strange effect that takes place entirely in the hand of the spectator. First of all the spectator sees his own hand acting out of control. Then it's the moment of the climax with the spoon that he hasn't let go of since the beginning. I won't tell you more to keep you surprised! A very strong trick for the one who sees it in his hand, as well as for those watching. Your spectators will be marked forever!