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In & Of Itself
(File under: theater, magic, identity)
Watch: hulu.com/movie/derek-delgaudios-in-of-itself
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First, a reminder: Next Saturday, January 30th at 12pm PST (3pm EST, 8pm GMT), join me and other enthusiasts who receive these emails on JQBX, the collaborative DJing site I mentioned last week. I’ll be playing a bunch of music, and you can too! Or you can just listen! It’ll be fun. Set a reminder, here’s a link to the room, and the password, of course, is horns.
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How do I tell you about something that will be significantly more enjoyable the less you know about it? By giving myself six sentences to make my case (not including these ones).
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Derek DelGaudio is an artist, writer, and magician, who was once an Artist in Residence for Walt Disney Imagineering.
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His one-man show In & Of Itself ran for just over 550 nights between LA and New York, and is now streaming on Hulu.
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It’s a show about identity and storytelling.
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It’s a show with magic in it, but one where the magic is peripheral and illustrative, not the main attraction.
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It’s moving in a way that I—and apparently much of its audience—did not anticipate.
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It’s the first show of its kind where I barely want to acknowledge its tricks, let alone know the mechanics behind them.
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More on the theme of playing music for other people in the age of COVID: Pitchfork on the pleasure of virtual listening clubs.
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Say hello → hello@jezburrows.com
Between the dog and the wolf,
Jez