Caria Hendrix is a magician who is on the rise. Oh, also, she happens to be a woman. She is one of the new breed who I believe is one of the "Stars of Tomorrow" as she pursues her dreams on stage. Most young people I see today seem to be involved in close-up and entertaining small groups of people, but few true entertainers are comfortable on stage in front of a large audience. Carisa is one of that rare breed.
She suggests that we should step out of our comfort zone and try new things that stretch our boundaries and move into new, perhaps uncomfortable, areas that will make us better performers and people. She says that artists should practice "moving towards the place of greatest discomfort and just sitting in that space." She suggests that magicians should not be afraid to fail.
On another matter, there was quite a bit of controversy about her July 2017 cover on VANISH Magazine. She addresses it quite well and succinctly on her blog. Click Here to read her comments on the controversy.
The Lady Magician, Lucy Darling plays a game of "hide and seek" with the Rone, Wednesday night at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. Performed November 15th, 2017 Special. Thank you to Pop Hayden for the footage and lovely introduction. Written and performed by Carisa Hendrix Additional thanks to David Par, Joe Diamond, Tim Ellis, Jimbo Jordan, Jason Melnychu, Chris Visse, John Lovick and Bizzaro Galore for their notes and suggestions.
This is the video that Carisa talks about late in the podcast. 20 years after ruining/improving Dave Williamson's magic career, Murray returns to The 2011 International Magic convention in London to try again.
Here is the poem that inspires Carisa that applies to all creators:
So You Want To Be A Writer - Poem by Charles Bukowski
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.
don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.
when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.
there is no other way.
and there never was.
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Since this original podcast was released, Carisa has lived to her potential. So in July 2019, we give a major congratulations to Carisa Hendrix for winning the 2019 Allan Slaight Award for Canadian Rising Star!
We’re so proud of her! Carisa truly is a rising star, with many talents to boot! She’s done tons of magic shows for children at parties, schools, and other family events, but she also does stilt walking, fire eating, and is even a professional bubble blower. Make sure that your check out her Bubble act here.
And that’s just in laypeople-land, specifically for children. She’s been taking the magic world by storm with her character, Lucy Darling, playing at the Chicago Magic Lounge, the Magic Castle, and currently at the Melbourne Magic Festival in Australia.
Check out the video (above) from the Slaight Family Foundation, highlighting Carisa and her many skills.
