Up, close and magical..
By Anand Holla for the Gulf Times
There’s a new illusionist in town and he is out to dazzle you. From Spain’s tourist haven Benidorm in Alicante, illusionist Javier Saba recently moved to Doha and is already a hit in the city’s events and party circuit.
Ripe with 12 years of experience performing cool, close-up magic (also called micromagic, it’s performed with small objects in an intimate setting) all across Europe and Spain, Saba is now testing Doha’s waters to launch his stint in the Middle East.
“All the tricks I pull off are stunning,” Saba says, without mincing words, “If I realise that even one of the tricks I do is not good enough for someone, I won’t perform it again. You must be awesome in performing every trick and only then can you make people see the impossible.”
Sometime in 2002, Saba’s mind embraced magic. “I had a magician friend who always tried out his tricks on me and my friends, until one day he did something that impressed me beyond limits and made me want to learn magic,” Saba recalls. That ruse was what is popularly known as the Voodoo ash trick — a card trick that ends with ashes forming the chosen card’s number and shape on one’s arm…