David Roth
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David Roth (b.1952, New York) is an American magician.
David Roth is widely regarded as the world's greatest living coin magician. He revitalized the art of coin magic and is known for his jumbo coin productions. He has worked with Michael Maxwell from A-1 production to release the instructional video series "Expert Coin Magic Made Easy" as well being an important contributor to the influential text "Expert Coin Magic" written by Richard Kauffman.
The legendary sleight of hand artist Dai Vernon, wrote about Roth:
"First let me state that David Roth has an amazing ability when performing with coins. He is truly a genius. I have been fortunate to have enjoyed the confidence and friendship of the leading exponents of coin manipulation of the past. T. Nelson Downs, Allan Shaw, Manuel and Welch Miller all specialized in this branch of the magical art. To the very best of my judgment, David’s ideas and execution far surpass any one of them. I feel quite certain that if they could witness his performance they would not only be astounded but realize that they had seen the master."
Roth's routine "The Hanging Coins" (which he invented in the early 1970s, and which appeared in print in Expert Coin Magic) represented a key step in the evolution of sleight-of-hand performance, as it was the first modern effect that allowed a single TV-camera shot to include both the magician's hands and his face. In other words, the magic took place in the air, not on the table. This was critical to televised presentation, as it allowed the performer to share emotion with the audience, instead of just showing off complicated hand-gymnastics. The famous magician and magic instructor Eugene Burger has criticized the older method of presentation as "The Adventures of the Props in the Magician's Hands."
[edit] Literary works
- David Roth's Expert Coin Magic
