{"id":7869,"date":"2013-10-16T08:45:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=7869"},"modified":"2013-10-16T09:25:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:25:24","slug":"vancouver-magician-camilo-gets-close-up-on-a-large-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/10\/16\/vancouver-magician-camilo-gets-close-up-on-a-large-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver magician Camilo gets close up, on a large scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not many magicians have a song written about them, but that\u2019s only one of many interesting things about Camilo Dominguez, the inspiration for Vancouver\u2019s Said the Whale\u2019s song \u201cCamilo (the Magician).\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Columbia, Dominguez received his first lesson in magic at the age of four from one of many professional magicians who would be his mentors over the years. At 15, He moved to Victoria and began attending Belmont Secondary, where he was drafted to perform for various school events. These shows acted as a good warm-up for his future higher-profile shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was 16 I did a show for 500, 600 people,\u201d says Dominquez. \u201cI was very nervous, but it went well. When I was starting I always got nervous; now I only get nervous for the first five seconds, when they say, \u2018Welcome to the stage, Camilo the magician!\u2019 I get butterflies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Vancouver magician Camilo (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the age of 19, after moving to Vancouver and finishing school, Dominguez decided to brave the difficulties, add the suffix to his name, and devote himself to being a full-time professional magician.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hardest thing about being a magician is trying to create something new every time for each show,\u201d he explains. \u201cMagicians occasionally adapt old tricks, but most of the time I create all my own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Dominguez retains sole credit for his tricks, he says magicians often work together. \u201cWe don\u2019t like to reveal most of our tricks to the public,\u201d he says, \u201cbut between magicians we do all the time so we can improve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like many magicians, Dominguez likes to put a unique spin on his shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy favourite is close-up magic, like things with cards and coins,\u201d he says. \u201cClose-up magic is usually for a small amount of people but I like big audiences and I like close-up so I put them together. Like close-up, but on a big scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also like many performers, Dominguez expresses that he enjoys being on stage almost as much as the actual act of doing the magic. Engrossing the audience is always the goal when performing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to have people forget about everything and have an hour and half of magic,\u201d he says, stressing the audience-participation factor of his show. \u201cThe first thing I do as soon as I walk on the stage is bring up audience members. There are always people beside me shuffling the cards.\u201d<\/p>\n

And even though he uses virtually any free time he has to practice, unforeseen things are always happening. \u201cMy favourite thing is improvising,\u201d he says. \u201cI like when unexpected things happen, but the trick always works out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camilo
\n8pm Friday, October 18 and Saturday, October 19
\n$20, McPherson Playhouse
\nrmts.bc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not many magicians have a song written about them, but that\u2019s only one of many interesting things about Camilo Dominguez, the inspiration for Vancouver\u2019s Said the Whale\u2019s song \u201cCamilo (the Magician).\u201d Born in Columbia, Dominguez received his first lesson in magic at the age of four from one of many professional magicians who would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-16-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7912,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions\/7912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}