David Blaine

For more than a decade, David Blaine has been attracting the world’s attention with his high-profile endurance stunts and bringing a new style of close up magic to the people. Now, he comes to LIVE from the NYPL to open the Spring 2015 season.

Starting his career as a magician who appeared to do the impossible with a deck of cards, DAVID BLAINE was soon seeking out that which seems physically impossible, and actually doing it. Blaine has been buried alive in New York City for a week; encased inside a six-ton block of ice for three days and three nights; he stood atop a 100-foot-tall pillar in Bryant Park for 36 hours without a safety net; survived on nothing but water inside a transparent box in London for 44 days; and spent one week submerged in a sphere-shaped aquarium at Lincoln Center, after which he attempted to break the world record for breath holding.  He later succeeded live on The Oprah Winfrey show, holding his breath for 17 minutes and 4 seconds. 

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