Trained at street school, a Belgian magician crowned world champion [VIDÉO]
Art and Stage
A small ball of paper that comes to life, twirls and lets itself be tamed: it is the trick full of poetry that earned the Belgian Laurent Piron to become world champion of magic at the end of July in Quebec, an art learned in the street.
On July 30, in competition with a hundred of his colleagues, the creator of “Paper Ball”, an eight-minute number, won the 1st prize in the general magic category and the grand prize of this world championship which takes place every the three years, the supreme reward. A month later his diary is packed with invitations around the world thanks to this entire issue for several years worked by this follower of “New Magic”, who wants to be a storyteller and a creator of emotions. Far from the great illusions of show biz.
“A lot of old magicians came to see me after my performance to tell me that they had reverted to childhood and had forgotten the techniques. That’s what we wanted with this ball of paper. We don’t care about special effects, the goal is magical emotion. confides Laurent Piron, met in his studio in Soumagne, near Liège (eastern Belgium).
On his return to Belgium, he discovers on his phone a message of congratulations from the star of world magic, David Copperfield, the American who passed through the Wall of China and made the Statue of Liberty disappear.