Price$495.00
Media TypeTrick
CategoryStage
Date AddedJan 30, 2004
Chair Suspension - Mak
Mak
(Based on 1 review)
NO assistant is required, an audience member can be used.
Perform completely surrounded clear of back-drops or drapes!In Effect:
2 Chairs are set face to face, with a long wood board on top. A person lays on the board and is briefly covered with a cloth. You remove the chair supporting their feet, they are SUSPENDED! Wave below them, there's nothing to find! Put the chair back to support their feet, all is fine now. The spectator goes back to their seat.
Note these features:
Performer may walk ENTIRELY AWAY while person is suspended
A one-person illusion requiring NO assistants
Up and running with a minimum of rehearsal
Use ANYONE up to 100 pounds
Everything, including chairs weighs just 33 pounds
Chairs are standard commercial quality folding chairs
The board measures 45 inches long and 13 wide
The Velour cloth is 43 by 53 inches
The support on which the "floater" rests has been made extra large for a feeling of stability
Support board measures 10 1/2 by 36 inches
Reviews
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I have had the Mak Magic chair suspension for about one year. I have practiced it with my wife (assistant). While it is true that it can be done by one person, using someone from the audience, my experience from practicing it is that it takes a good sense of stage management to do that. I plan to use the chair suspension soon in a show. My wife and I will both work the apparatus, suspending someone from the audience. This seems to be more practical in terms of stage management. This is one of the few levitations/suspensions that can be done at fairly close quarters - even in someone's living room. I gave it a 3.5 because it does take a good understanding of stage management to make this look as graceful as it should be.