Bill Wisch "Master Sleight of Hand Artist"
 
 
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Bill Wisch                                             Wisch-Craft

  • Full-time, sleight of hand professional since 1975.
  • "Star of Magic" award 1981 --- Magic Towne House, NYC
  • The Magic Castle, Hollywood, CA --- has performed in all three rooms; the Close-Up Gallery, the Parlour of Prestidigitation, and the Palace of Mystery, and lectured three times since 1977.
  • Featured close-up performer and lecturer at The Society of American Magicians 1990 national convention and The International Brotherhood of Magicians 1991 national convention.
  • The  NEMCON XVI (New England Magician's Conference) honoree in 1997 --- "for his contributions to the art of magic"
  • Creator and performer of Un-Frisbee-lievable, acclaimed as "the world's greatest card trick".
  • Co-creator and co-director of The International Conservatory of Magic (ICOM) --- since 1997, the world's largest, internet magic school (magicschool.com).
  • Co-creator and co-producer of "Metro-Magic", the popular, NYC metropolitan area, one-day, close-up magic convention, held annually, on the first Sunday in November (metro-magic.com).
  • A recognized pioneer in the study of showmanship. Spent three years researching the careers of P.T.Barnum, George M. Cohan, Mohammed Ali and Harry Houdini to discover what made them such great showmen. Developed and applied their common success principles into a one-man show, "The Magic Word is Showmanship", presented throughout the 1980's to sales and marketing divisions of many Fortune 500 companies, including; IBM, Pfizer, M&M Mars, Minolta, Minwax, Delta and Johnson & Johnson.
  • Author of the Webster's New World Dictionary definition of showmanship.
  • Contributing writer about showmanship for "Networking Times Magazine".


In 1973 Bill began studying with the legend, TONY SLYDINI,
one of the two most influential, pure sleight of hand experts
and teachers of general magic in the 20th century.

Bill Wisch is the only student ever to receive 
authorization by Slydini to lecture his magic.
In 1976 Slydini wrote a letter to all magic societies and
associations in North America, sponsoring Bill to take his
place and introduce the long awaited, two-volume, book set,
"THE BEST OF SLYDINI AND MORE".
Bill lectured SLYDINI'S methods and techniques, as well as his own,
to thousands of magicians in 38 cities across the US and Canada.
In 1978, Bill went on another 36 city lecture tour following
the publication of SLYDINI'S final, two volume companion set,
"THE MAGICAL WORLD OF SLYDINI".

Each tour was a resounding success and established Bill as
a major performer, inventor, contributor and influence on the
world magic scene. Since then Bill has presented over 400
lectures to his peers with his video's, books, articles and theories
about sleight of hand being so innovative that literally thousands
of magicians around the world have adapted and adopted them.





Demonstrating SLYDINI'S famous "Helicopter Card Routine"



Over the years practically every magic periodical has
had at least one of his articles or effects, but the
“Special Bill Wisch issue” of GENII in September 1984
was exclusive and according to the late publisher,
Bill Larsen, one of the most requested back-issues in
the entire history of the magazine, due to the unique
content and innovative photograpic explanations.

 
From 1997 to 2001, Bill performed literally
thousands of cabaret and close-up shows as house
magician at Caesars Pocono Palace.