Galicia Ilusiona will return with traveling caravan shows and big magic galas

After bringing magic to 52,000 people last year, The Galicia Ilusiona World Festival of Magic will be back during September and October with news. The main performances are inside a caravan turned into a traveling theater which will visit seven Galician cities. Proposal to join a large international gala in which six internationally recognized illusionists from Venezuela, Argentina, Russia, France and other parts of Spain participate. In addition to the gala, Galicia Ilusiona will also repeat the initiative The magic of solidarity is approaching the pediatric floors of hospitals of the seven Galician cities.

«Last year’s success led us to bet on the second edition, which makes us happy because it consolidates the project. Maxia is in fashion, en auxe, e notousesaid the magician Dani Polowho, together with a Galician illusionist, directs and produces the festival Pedro the Bulgarian. The initiative, which has the support of Xunta through Xacobeo, was presented yesterday by both magicians together with the director Tourism of Galicia, Nava Castroin Cidade da Cultura, where they showed a new caravan, which was intended for conversion «the smallest theater in the world».

This one traveling caravan, which will be located in symbolic places in seven Galician cities in September, will host ten magical shows inside during the day with 20-25 minute performances Galician magician Rafa and Lore Lavand from Argentina. A maximum of 20 people per passage, with free access. “It’s a new format and it should get something new, original. Let’s face the performances during the day. The maximum of the biggest stage is set on the stage, and in contrast, in the caravan, the spectators will be able to live and feel the maximum a few centimeters from their faces. Desire, no festival will have that biggest and most intimate maxi», detailed Dani Polo.

The culmination of the festival will be seven international magic galas. The first will be held in Lugo on October 6. they will follow Ferrol, 8; Pontevedra, 14; Ourense, 15; A Coruña, 20; Santiago, 21; and the last one will be held in I live on the 22nd. The tickets are already on sale through the festival website —galiciailusiona.es— with prices starting at 12 euros. «It is a very complete, diverse show, with a maximum of all disciplines. We have maxis with large displays, more poetic, more manipulative…Dani Polo said.

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Six illusionists make up the poster for these grand galas. Venezuelan magician Dania Diaz, who will also be the presenter, participated in the Got Talent program, where she was selected for a special that was held in the United States of America. His proposal consists of “telling stories through letters.” The man from Madrid will accompany her Miguel Munozwho was recently declared the world champion in magic, and was chosen for the film by Tim Burton Dumbo. One of the best jugglers in the world arrives from Argentina, Paul Ponce, who will perform in Galicia for the first time. He Argentinian-Russian duo Kybalionconsisting of Inna Rudova and Guillermo Neumayer, will show their changes on stage «never opened and pechar of ollos» by changing roomsor. There will be no shortage of classic and elegant proposals that will come from the hands of the French Gerald LeGuilloux, which collects several international awards with a mixture of the most traditional magic with innovative and modern effects. The poster completes it Amadeo Edama, from Logroño, a specialist in large format magic that will make people float around the stage.