Quick Change Artists

I love the look on the black girl's face(the one from the jury, I don't know who she is)...

They're good...they're really good.

T.

I think that some of the trick is cloth that is very thin, and can be underneath and folded without giving much bulk, as well as as the quick-release fastenings. A couple of the dresses seem to have similar structure to them but are different colors; maybe they're reversible.

At any rate, a great show.

I've seen them live. They are great. Even if we knew the trick, it still has to be hard to pull it off.

If the dresses are reversible, like maybe they close in front then she flips them to the back that could explain it. However, at the beginning of the skit she looks larger, like she is wearing a lot of clothes, then at the end she looks thinner. So I am wondering where did the dresses go?
The one I liked was the change where he had to hook(?) the dress to the hoop for her. It looked almost like she did nothing at all (and he was very quick) and her dress changed by itself. Way cool.

That girl is Brandy, she used to be a singer and was on a tv show called Moisha on WB or UPN I don't remember which.

As far as the act goes all I can say is; DAMN!

I liked that her hair changes color from dark to blonde.

As for where the clothes go, notice that every cylinder is flipped right after its dropped and she walks away - the audience is too wowed by the change to notice he flips the rim over, hiding any clothes left behind.

On the green-to-purple transition, as thephrog noticed, he does something behind her back. You also can see the dress unfolding during the transition. Looks almost spring-loaded!

All i can say is WOW. This is an exceptional performance/trick.

But now, did they win the competition that night?? I would have voted for them... but then again, i didn't see any of the other performances.

Gonna have to tune into this show sometime. but what's up with the judge selections? Brandy and David Hasselhoff? c'mon 😉

I've seen them up close and in person several times at the Palace in Detroit (actually Auburn Hills). I've been within 15 feet of them during their performances and the illusion is almost as good that close. I'm pretty sure she wears all of the clothes and the flip down/off with snaps and velcro. If you're close you can see a bit of bulk to the clothing, but not enough to ruin the illusion.

Notice when they do the glitter pink-to-white trick at the end of the show, when the glitter falls and she is then in white, look at the glitter, you can see pink. Trust me, it is there, I saw it when I watched the show on TV. But still, even if she was wearing all the clothes beneath others, she went from long dress to short dress, back to long dress, and the like. The only way I can think she would be able to pull it off it she had the bottoms folded up.

Either way, this is a fairly simple trick, but yet people are amazed by it because they don't know what's going to happen, so they don't look for it.

"Either way, this is a fairly simple trick"

Dude, no offense, but no friggin' way this is a fairly simple trick. I bet if you practiced it yourself for weeks, (even with the right props) you would not be able to perform it as well as this couple does. The premise of trick may be simple with the right equipment, but the way these two perform this trick takes talent, skill, and a ton of practice. And even with those, there are probably a lot professional dancers and magicians who cannot perform it as well as these two...

I agree with Grain. The principle is simple, just as the principle of juggling nine flaming hatchets in the air is simple, but these performers are incredibly skilled at their tricks. That doesn't come without a lot of hard work.

I have seen this act live 3 or 4 times at the Orlando Arena. It is spectacular and they perform the act with viewers on all sides.

I meant simple principle, you just pull off your clothes quickly and try to hide them, but, yes, I know it is a hard trick to actually do. Sorry for confusion.

come on that looks so easy! mr. man who runs this website just made it sound like its hard. i do it all the time.

ya, I used frame step on media player classic and I saw a green piece of cloth being pulled off revealing a purple dress underneath. it looked VERY thin, I think they could possibly be used to hold parts of the outfits, like the skirt, to fall out when ripped. You can definately see similar shapes to the dresses as well.

I could send in a showing what I said, If you REALLY wanna see....

Its clear that there is trick clothing that involes being covered while the clothes are either removed or flipped..However I have a theory for the glitter. He makes sure the glitter gets dumped on her, not thrown in front of her as a curtain. I think the red dress and the final dress are the same dress on the fabric is some kind of color change fabric the glliter appears to be held in a plastic bag would would help keep it "cold" while under the lights....

If you watch her right before the glitter falls, she positions both hands on the straps of the dress near her hands. I think she releases hooks right as the glitter falls. The timing would have to be perfect, but it would explain how she does it!

Shawn is right.. as the glitter falls so does the dress, my bad, still that must take ALOT of practice to pull of as seemlessly as they did, I would bet they have a ton of video of themselves messing up..
she looks ALOT thicker at the beginning than the end...

There is another version of it on youtube.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mawr4O6mBmo&search=t.h.e.m

They do perform this act very well. But Piers Morgan, the British judge, was dead on with his criticism of the fact that each time, it was the same act. Great as part of a Vegas show, but you gotta have more than a 90 second magic act to win the prize. Many Vegas shows have one of these acts, and amazing as it is the first time you see it, one trick, no matter how well played, does not a professional magic act make.

I believe it's done by burning/chemical destruction of the dresses in sequence--which is why she gets thinner. Two materials are used so that only one dress destroys itself at a time.

I dunno guys...I think she's a witch

I'll tip it. Right before each outfit change, as he gets things ready, she pops a colored gaseous capsule and when the change is needed, she emits a thunderous ass burp (which is why loud music is needed during performance) which expels it's colorful gas from her bulbous butt biscuit and dies her dress that color. Very simple.

if you look closely when the girl changes from the yellow and black costume into the green one - the gold covering is lifted up and you can just see there is fabric covering - where the clothes could be stored. Not a clue on how they change so fast though.

The change where you see the "tattered" covering you can see her dress almost roll down. Its around :56 :59.

To RedNeckOreo you are wrong. You only see pink in the glitter because of the spotlight on her reflecting the color of the pink dress. And why do the clothes have to be super thin? 8 Layers don't make you look that thick. And to Gutgut why would they film themselves? They are professionals they wouldn't have videos of themselves messing up. This sort of magic is really skilled so there would be no mistakes, even if you just started it. And also to Piers Fan watch their video of them on a basketball halftime show before you judge. Just search for Quick Change halftime show.

I dont see what the big mystery is guys.
The answer is simple....They have both obviously sold their souls to the devil for special abilities.

Obvious answer really....don't understand why no-one else saw it.

😊

JoffaBoyInOz

Hey JoffaBoyInOz that was the absolutely the dumbest thing I have ever heard. No magicians sells their souls to a non-existant being.

If you watch the transition from the green outfit to the blue dress using the hoop, he uses his right hand to release something on her back. Watch closely as the green fabric at her neck lets go first and the blue fabric of her skirt then falls. It appears the blue dress was hiding around her torso under the green outfit and when the green outfit came apart (from the waist up), the torso section of the green outfit dangled underneath the fabric of the skirt.

I think these people are just truly supernatural magicians using some ancient craft from Africa consisting of voodoo, witchery and some spooky spells which just cause clothes to materialize and disappear.

The people who think it is the supernatural things that are helping them, GET REAL!!!

YOu know how they leave the things that go over her on the ground. When she first starts out she just takes the dressed off and they go under the hoop on the ground so no one can see it. Then in the middle she has a layered dress

TO mckenzie. That's one of the possible explanations. But do explain where the clothes are hidden, I mean the one's that look like it magically appears. I know how they do it, but so far people's logical explanations don't explain the whole thing.

they use a patented costume

A costume construction suitable for stage use permitting a rapid change of appearance during a period of temporary concealment of the user to create the illusion of total removal and substitution of a costume. The construction is such that the costume is maintained in position by one or more rapidly disconnectable fastening means permitting the costume to display another garment concealed therebeneath.

It may thus be seen that I have invented novel and highly useful improvements in convertible costume construction in which a user initially wears an inner costume and an outer costume, the outer costume being constructed such that it may be rapidly opened to permit it to fall under the force of gravity to uncover the inner costume. When necessary, the inner costume may be maintained above the waist of the wearer to be released to fall to normal position as the outer costume element is doffed. The use of a quick release fastener means enables the operation to be performed in a manner of seconds while the user is temporarily concealed within a flexible envelope erected by another person.

That's still doesn't explain what holds the clothes together. It's not velcro seeing as they wear off too fast.

i think on the last trick theres like a quick release pull string mechanism near her chest if you look at the video closely you'll see her grab her chest then when the glitter fall around her she pushes the layer down to reveal the white dress

No, watch closely again, her hands are open, it's near impossible to grab things with open hands. Also there is a close up shot in another video where her hands are a good 3 inches away from her chest and once the confetti touches her head she immeadiately throws her arms out, without touching the pink dress and the white dress appears.

You can read all about quick change artists, the history of quick change artists and even some of the secrets of how to quick change at http://www.quickchangeartists.com

Yeah ruin it why don't you Jo?

Andrew, I don't believe I have ruined it at all. It appears all the others posting are trying to ruin it. I am just facinated by the art and performance of quick change, not the methods. Websites with magic videos like these are far more damaging to the magic world then proper site devoted to the art. All these video sites do it over expose the acts so people see the act too many times or slow them down where upon the mystery is no more. Its very sad that this is happening to these act who must have worked so hard to create something so amazing!

Still. But some people even watching them on video do want to watch it live also. And some people are just discovering them for the first time.

Hey JoffaBoyInOz that was the absolutely the dumbest thing I have ever heard. No magicians sells their souls to a non-existant being.
Posted by Andrew. on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 01:11 PM

The people who think it is the supernatural things that are helping them, GET REAL!!!
Posted by Andrew on Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 03:30 AM

Andrew, you can recognize a facetious comment when you see one, right? Case in point, my signature. I'm not really a witchy, flying in the air. *grin*

That being said, the act is amazing and I enjoyed it.

Well yeah. But I don't know if he's one of those mentally insane people who takes religion way too far.

rubber bands sewn in the clothes makes them close up like those free plastic shower caps lots of practice and showmanship pulls it off for these two.....

Rubber bands? Like they use that. That's not even how the clothes work.

The people who DON'T think it is the supernatural things that are helping them, GET A SENSE OF HUMOR!!!

what i think this is, is not her folding the dresses up but her flipping them down.

notice how, at the end of the video whe she changes under the confetti that right before he throws the confetti she has her hands on the straps of her dress, that probably has something to do with her removing the dress...i still have to say though, they're very talented

Dania's hands aren't exactly on the dress' straps. If you look real closely, or find a video where the camera gives a closer view of the last change, her hands are actually a few inches away from the straps. When the confetti hits her, Dania immediately throws her arms out, so she doesn't actually touch the pink dress at all.

I know how she did the last gliter trick... if u notice, the dress is white and when the man in the tux drops it on her, flips it over her and she probably has some velcrow and or magnets so when it fell it would stick to her