The 1991 FISM gold-medal winning act of Jean-Pierre Vallarino, ‘Champagne.’ More recently, one may have caught Vallarino on the World’s Greatest Magic television show performing his exquisite manipulation act done close up. Watching Vallarino is like watching a ballet of the hands. This may be the most important thing the viewer can take from this video – the beauty and importance of carefully choreographing your actions and hand movements. Vallarino focuses his close-up ballet on cards, coins, and champagne glasses which are produced along the way.
The act consists of three parts. The first opens with a stunning change of a card to a coin, a one coin sequence, change of the coin to a jumbo coin, change of the jumbo coin to a bill, and the change