Café avec Alexandra Duvivier

The amazing French magician talks about how she doesn’t talk about herself

Chloe Olewitz
Café avec Alexandra Duvivier
Photo by Thomas Braut 

My drink is water. I don’t drink coffee. What I usually drink is an herbal thing. I don’t know how you call that... une infusion à la menthe.

I am working on my fourth one-woman show for next year. I have the title, I have the plot, the fil rouge, as we say in French. The skeleton of the show is ‘the day that I dared.’ And I dared many things.

I dared knocking at my dad’s door when I was 15, saying, ‘Please teach me a trick.’ After all that time, he didn’t want me to learn tricks if it was only to do them as he does them. For him, magic is such an art form, that he couldn’t stand that I would be doing magic just as a hobby.

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