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Woody Aragón was card magic champion in Spain in 2005 and obtained the ''Ascanio Prize'' in 2006. He was the first Spanish magician to obtain the prestigious prize "Ron MacMillan" in London's International Magic Convention (2011),<ref>[http://www.internationalmagic.com/convention-history.shtml History of the Internacional Magic Convention]</ref> as well as the one of the few Spanish magicians that has been nominated as Magician of the year 2016 by the Hollywood's Academy of Magical Arts. |
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Born | Emilio de Paz Aragón 3 October 1974 |
Occupation | Magician |
Woody Aragón (born as Emilio de Paz Aragón on 3 October 1974, Madrid), is a Spanish magician.
Biography
He is one of the most influential magicians in the world, his games have been presented all over the world by many well known performers. Some of his magic creations have been shown in US television, for example in Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show or Penn & Teller's "Fool Us" in The CW. Penn & Teller also perform some of Woody's card tricks in their own shows. Woody Aragón has also appeared in several occasions in the North American TV as a guest magician in Don Francisco presenta of Univision.
Woody Aragón has done several tours in the United Kingdom and given conferences to other magicians. Ben Hanlin performed one of Woody Aragón's card tricks in a special program of the ITV channel in the London Palladium. The magician Dynamo took as a basis one of his illusions, "The Postcards", for one of the games in his UKTV series "Magician Impossible".
Woody Aragón has performed in multiple occasions in the United States. Penn & Teller perform his game "Ritual of Love" in their Las Vegas show since 2016,[1] as well as in their TV show Fool Us. Penn & Teller also selected this card trick and presented it in a show in front of 11,000 people in the charity event following Las Vegas massacre the 1st of October 2017.
In 2017, the "Ritual of Love" was selected to open the Netflix series "Death by magic" in a version performed by Drummond Money-Couttsin in Cape Town College of Magic.
The TV station TVChosun, from South Korea, aired a special show dedicated to Woody Aragón's magic in their series "Magic Control", which was presented by the tv star Charming Choi in which Woody Aragón participated as a guest and performed a series of his effects to korean celebrities.
In Spain, many magicians such as Jandro, Luis Piedrahita, or Jorge Blass have presented his games in the radio, TED talks or in different TV shows such as El hormiguero. In 2010 he participated as a guest in the radio program "A Día de Hoy" in Punto Radio. From 2010 to 2012 he presented the section Hablemos de magia (Let's talk about Magic) with the radio program A vivir que son dos días in Cadena SER.
Woody Aragón has written several books for magicians, including:
- A Book in English, a bestseller book of magic in the years 2011 y 2014. The book obtained the prize “Magic Academy Award” for the best book of magic (Tannen's, New York, 2012).
- Memorandum, where he described his own mnemonic stack, memorisation techniques as well as games and theory related to mnemonic card magic.
He has also advised other magicians such as David Blaine, the Portuguese Luis de Matos, the argentinian Norberto Jansenson, or the Spanish Jorge Blass. All of them present or have presented Woody's materials in their shows..
Woody teaches magic classes in the magic school Gran Escuela de Magia "Ana Tamariz", where he explains both card magic and theory related to card magic.[2]
He directs and organises the annual international magic festival Toledo Ilusión,[3] which takes place in his hometown, Toledo (Spain).
Performer
He is one of the magic stars in Hollywood's Magic Castle[4] where he regularly performs.[5] There he was nominated in 2015 as "Close-up magician of the year" and has performed in front of celebrities such as Steve Buscemi, Jorge García, or Conan O'Brien. He frequently attends and performs in magic conventions around the world such as: USA, Canada, Uruguay, Colombia, United Kingdom, France, Italia, Portugal, Hungary, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Japan or Taiwan.
He works from Spain where he founded, together with two other Spanish magicians, Miguel Ángel Gea and Pepo Capel, the Enchanted Theater[6] in Madrid. The Enchanted Theatre is a theatre specially created for close up magic shows. He regularly performs in this theatre.
Prizes
He is one of the card magicians which has accumulated the most magic awards in recent years. He has obtained the most relevant prices in card magic with the exception of the World FISM price. After becoming the FISM champion in North America in 2011, followed by European FISM championship in 2014, he was disqualified in the World FISM championship in 2015 in Rimini, as he exceeded the allotted time by 6 seconds[7][8]
Woody Aragón was card magic champion in Spain in 2005 and obtained the Ascanio Prize in 2006. He was the first Spanish magician to obtain the prestigious prize "Ron MacMillan" in London's International Magic Convention (2011),[9] as well as the one of the few Spanish magicians that has been nominated as Magician of the year 2016 by the Hollywood's Academy of Magical Arts.
- Spanish card magic Champion (2005)
- Ascanio Prize (2006)
- Ron McMillan (International Magic Convention, London (2011)
- North America FISM (2011)
- Europe FISM (2014)
- Two times nominated as Magician of the year by the Academy of Magical Arts (2015 and 2017)
Masters
He met Juan Tamariz when he was 19 years old and started training with him, and become a close friend of, years later. For many years they met weekly for dinner and shared magic in sessions that could last for over 12 hours. Woody Aragón considers himself a member of the school of magic "Tamariciana" and Tamariz contributed the prologue to his A Book in English. He was also greatly influenced by the catalonian master Gabi Pareras, with whom he shared a very strong friendship.
Other
The GENII magazine, a well known magic magazine, had him in the September 2012 issue's front page[10]
Woody Aragón is also mentioned in the 2012 novel Fooling Houdini, written by the NY Times writer Alex Stone. He designed an interactive cartomagic game and was a guest magician in the promotion of Nacho Vigalondo's movie Los Cronocrímenes.
References
- ^ "Penn tweet announcing the card trick".
- ^ "Curso semanal de magia para adultos" [Weekly magic course for adults] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
- ^ "Web oficial del festival Toledo Ilusión" [Web of the magic festival Toledo Ilusión] (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-18.
- ^ Actuación de Woody Aragón en Magic Castle
- ^ CNN News coverage of Woody Aragón's performances at the Magic Castle
- ^ Web page of the Teatro Encantado
- ^ Woody Aragón performance in 2015 FISM
- ^ Chronicle of 2015 FISM
- ^ History of the Internacional Magic Convention
- ^ Woody GENII magazine 2012 September digital download