Naquada

Tonights Gala Show was on the whole very good again. It opened with Jade from the USA, performing her chinese act, with silks, parasols, rice and water balls and a nice costume change at the end.

Jade was followed by Dana Daniels form the USA, a comedy magic act with Dwaine, the mind reading dove. Svetlana from the Ukraine was next, a contortion and modern dance act (with fire!) and was a good break from the magic.

Francis Menotti again performed a great routine with an egg bag and mobile phone, with some great twists and touches that really made the egg bag special, even performing mentalism and predictions, down to predicting his own death on stage in a fantastic comical way. After his body was dragged off stage the world class skills of Mahka Tendo from Japan produced some excellent card manipulations and productions.

Just Alan opened the second half, and presented his award winning act The Sands of India, it was a lovely piece about an indian fakir, producing coloured sands from a bowl of water, a nice piece, and did make up for my disappointment yesterday.

Juan Ordeix again did some mind blowing mentalism, three balloons with cards in through out to the audience matched three cards freely selected from the deck, a beyond explanation prediction of the money spent, bill serial number, playing card and date in a sealed envelope along with the actual money, and card left the audience lost for a method.

Voronin from the Ukraine just was singularly the best act, and should have closed, mixing the traditions of Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati, he held the audience with his silent act, polished and flawless it was a joy to watch, he even involved the rest of the gala show acts.. it was just wonderful.

James Long, the traditional end of show illusion act closed, which I think was a shame, I dont think anyone could have followed Voronin, on his own, great but I think he looked weak after what I think was perfection. A tough slot to have. James did a number of good illusions, but it was a weak finish I think to a good show..

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