Maestro Ryan Kane at your service.
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We are grateful to welcome maestro Ryan Kane for a virtual lecture for the members and friends of IBM Ring 313. He will zoom into our experience on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 7:00 pm. Out of Stock, a magicians guide to writing your own lines is a new book by Ryan Kane This is a book for the performing magician or variety artist who is ready to get serious and move beyond using the standard lines. Ryan Kane provides a step-by-step process to replace the stock and stolen jokes in your show with fresh original content. Hocus-pocus, abracadabra, alakazam! And presto, there you have about five centuries of magical buzzwords, rabbit and wand in tow.
Who is Ryan Kane ? I am pleased you asked. This is what the Sacramento Bee thought of him in 2015. Although even young kids can pull up smartphone tutorials for any given trick, the profession of deception continues to keep especially talented magicians employed. Take Sacramento native Ryan Kane, for example. A self-described contemporary magician, Kane has a full-time one-man act in the San Francisco Bay Area and performs as far away as New York or Michigan for private parties, corporate gigs and theatrical shows. Kane says the art of illusion hasn’t really changed much from 500 years ago, despite technology. “People know so much. But you can fool anyone – absolutely anyone can be fooled,” Kane says. “Because the more we learn about neurology and the brain, the more we understand how susceptible we are to deception.”
Magicians, he said, have first-hand knowledge of this. “We’ve been doing this for years.” Kane says people still want to be floored and witness something they’ve never seen before – to be wowed. “I don’t think that’ll ever change,” he adds. “Ever.”
“To get to the point where you could produce theater shows that I wanted to do and feel confident having the audience be in front of me, it really takes that long,” Kane says. “An act is not built all at once; it’s built piece by piece. And it felt right to come back with a show I was very proud of and do this in Sacramento.” In his act, Kane makes bottles of Jack Daniel’s whiskey appear out of thin air, catches paint balls that audience members fire at him from close range, toys with people’s iPhones and throws in a few classic card tricks, too. He employs elements of stand-up comedy as well to help lead onlookers to a big payoff. His latest show, he says, is all his own, as he’s tried to shed older, sometimes-rented material he’d been using for almost a decade. From age 14 to 16, Kane would set up on a corner in Old Sacramento and perform renegade shows for anyone who would watch, sometimes 40 or more, he says. “(Old Sacramento) gave me this great laboratory in which to perform and earn my chops and just really figure out who I was and who I wanted to be as a magician,” Kane explains. “And also make some money along the way.”
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