[Magicen] Accident de scène pour Princess Tenko (AFP)

[Emmanuel MANHO]

Bonjour,

On vient de me faire suivre une new où l'on apprend que a prestidigitatrice japonaise Princess Tenko a été blessée lors d'un spectacle au Japon.

Suite à un pb elle n'a pu s'échapper d'une boite où elle était enfermée, avant que la boite soit transpercée par de fausse épées. Elle serait touchée aux côtes et au visage.

[Jean-Yves LOES]

Bonjour Emmanuel !

Voilà la dépêche que je viens de trouver au boulot :

TOKYO, 24 juil 2007 (AFP) - La prestidigitatrice japonaise Princess Tenko,

dont les spectacles extravagants

font la joie du dictateur nord-coréen Kim Jong-il,

a été grièvement blessée de plusieurs coups d'épée sur scène

au cours d'un tour de magie raté, a annoncé mardi son représentant.

La magicienne était censée s'échapper d'une boîte

juste avant que celle-ci ne soit transpercée par dix fausses épées.

Mais les lames l'ont en fait bloquée à l'intérieur,

lui entaillant profondément une joue et lui enfonçant une côte.

L'accident a eu lieu dimanche, au cours d'un spectacle à Sabae, dans le centre du Japon.

"Elle souffre terriblement",

a affirmé son impresario, Noboru Ochiai, selon qui la magicienne mettra un mois à se remettre.

Princess Tenko, qui ne dévoile jamais son vrai nom ni son âge,

est très connue dans toute l'Asie.

Elle s'est produite à deux reprises en Corée du Nord,

en 1998 et 2000, devant Kim Jong-il qui,

si l'on en croit la rumeur, lui aurait offert un chien

d'une espèce rare pour la remercier.

Modifié 24 juillet 2007 par petitbonhomme

[Emmanuel MANHO]

Pour les anglophones, voici ma source originale (média australien):

JAPANESE magician Princess Tenko was seriously injured when metal swords trapped her in a box during a performance.

Tenko broke her right cheek and ribs on stage in the central Japanese city of Sabae on Sunday, her office said today.

"It will take a month to heal the wounds," her manager Noboru Ochiai said.

"A fake metal sword would have been stuck in her right eye if it were one centimetre higher."

"She is suffering tremendous pain but is more shocked that she had to call off performances," he said.

The doll-looking magician, who never confirms her real name or age, has won a fan base in Asia and North America with her extravagant shows in which she dresses in elaborate costumes and make-up.

She was injured as she failed at what was billed as "the spike illusion in the face of death."

Tenko was supposed to escape from a box on the moment it was spiked with 10 fake swords, but instead they trapped her inside.

She continued the performance for 30 minutes before the show was called off.

[Invité]

She continued the performance for 30 minutes before the show was called off.

Dingue ça !!!

après une joue transpercée, des côtes cassées et apparement un oeil crevé !!!! Ca relève aussi de l'exploit.

Modifié 24 juillet 2007 par magic lolo

[Michaël THELLIEZ]

Lolo, si j'ai bien lu ( et bien compris), l'oeil n'est pas atteint mais a failli l'être si l'épée était passée un centimètre plus haut.

[Fred SILHOUETTE]

Princess Tenko

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Poster of Princess Tenko's Las Vegas show (2005)Princess Tenko is the stage name of Mariko Itakura (born 1959), a pop singer turned magician specialising in grand illusions. Her name is taken from Tenko (Isao Hikita), a male Japanese magician who was managed by the same person as Mariko and to whom Mariko was apprenticed in 1976. The older Tenko passed his mantle to her before he died, creating controversy because she was a woman in a male dominated field and the older Tenko had chosen her over two male apprentices.[1]

In 1990, Princess Tenko was named Magician of the Year by the Academy of Magical Arts.[2] The same award had been previously given to David Copperfield, Doug Henning, Siegfried & Roy, and other famous magicians. She debuted in North America at the Radio City Music Hall in 1994, and subsequently achieved worldwide fame. She was famous to the extent that an American magical girl-inspired cartoon series based on her character was created and Mattel produced a line of fashion dolls named after her. In 1996 she became an honorary goodwill ambassador of the African Wild Animal Conservation Fund. A plan for the opening of multiple theme parks based on her shows was mentioned but appears not to have proceeded.

She was the subject of controversy after making a visit to North Korea in April 1998. It was reported that she met North Korean leader Kim Jong Il but she is reported as denying this in interviews (she politely refused to confirm the story when interviewed by Jonathan Ross for the BBC series Japanorama). She has stated that the purpose of her visit was to perform at the Friendship Art Festival held in Pyongyang and to meet Korean artists.[3]

Besides being an illusionist, she is also known as a singer, stage director, movie director, video photographer and painter. As a singer she originally performed under the stage name Marie Asakaze.[4]

On Tuesday, 24th of July 2007 it was reported that she performed The Spike Illusion, but that the trick went wrong causing serious injury. After being released, she continued the show for a further thirty minutes before terminating it early due to her injuries.[5]

[Jean-Yves LOES]

Rappelez-vous, à la fin juillet :

La prestidigitatrice japonaise Princess Tenko

avait été grièvement blessée de plusieurs coups d'épée sur scène au cours d'un tour de magie raté,

une boite dont elle devait s'échapper....

Le mag Magicus (à suivre...) certes sur le ton de la boutade et poil à gratter qui le caractérise,

se pose la question dans son dernier numéro, 150...

A qui, se demande-t-il, fera-t-on croire

que la dite princesse ait pu risquer véritablement la mort

en se faisant transperçer de part et d'autre, joue, bras, thorax...

avec des épées en plastique..!

Et si c'était du pipo et tout simplement une opération de pub

pour le Japon à quelques mois des JO de Pékin...

Petitbonhomme

Modifié 12 septembre 2007 par petitbonhomme