Festival Report フェスティバル レポート 2017

"Magic is Everywhere"/ Laurent Piron

This is "Belgian magician" Laurent Piron's first visit in Japan. Piron performed in World showcase and some street performance on November 2nd. His performance brought tons of surprise and huge smiles to the audience in Shizuoka.

Laurent Piron started magic when he was 12 years old. His friend did some magic trick, and he decided to join his friend. He started from small shows, and now people call him "Belgian magician."

Piron's World showcase performance was a story-like structure. Tons of tricks happened during his "daily life." According to Piron, he gets the story ideas from his dream and daily life. Things he thinks he wants to appear or dissapear, he makes it happen during the performance. It was like watching a theater drama, but tricks were happening continuously!

Piron said the reason he likes street performance is that he gets to travel everywhere in the world, such as this visit to Japan, and never feels like working. Also, during street performances, the artist gets direct feedback from the audience. Audience can leave if they are not enjoying the performance, so the artist has to be always entertaining and perfect, according to Piron.

Magic can make reality into something else and make anyone in the world happy, Piron said. I completely agree with him after watching his performance. Piron's performance kept the audience's jaw dropped whole time and left a huge smile on everyone's face.
(Nana)