Art of the escape

In Conjuring, the art of the escape or escapology is art to escape all kind of obstacles (trunk, cords, chains…)

Often presented in spectacles of illusionist, the turns of escape ask for great qualities of flexibility and force.

This art of the escape is immortalisé by Harry Houdini able to escape from a trunk filled with closed and connected water.

All the largest magicians at least have with their repertory a turn of escape (escapology). David Copperfield for example, always has one by show of them. An essential component of the escape is to integrate an emergency feeling into it. The artist escapologist, for example, is attached to rails and the train must arrive 2 mn later (Lance Burton). David Blaine is made bury alive… and escapes from this atrocious death one does not know how. Christophe Ambre, as for him, escape mixture from a strait jacket and pick-pocketing.

There exists in the United States a congress of the art of the escape where gather the American escapologists. At the time of this congress, those launch out challenges of escapes. One can note that, fortunately, the accidents are rare. The initiator of this congress (the cannonball) is the artist magician escapologist Jay Leslie.

It is interesting to note that women practice this discipline following the example Cynthia Morrison.

There are also at least two heroes of cartoon escapologists: Mister Miracle of Jack Kirby, inspired by the draftsman Jim Steranko, and Yorick Brown, the central figure of the series Y, the last man Brian K. Vaughan.

External bonds

site of Christophe Ambre
site of Dean Gunnarson
site of Cynthia Morrison.
site of Jay Leslie
site of Lance Burton

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