While hard at work on her latest one-woman show, Alexandra Duvivier sat down with Genii to discuss the many things she’s dared to achieve during her four decades in magic. Although running a magic theater, magic shop, and magic school in Paris keeps her busy year-round, her passion for performing is contagious, and it’s taken her around the world.
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.