American magician (1952–2021)
David Roth (March 13, 1952 – January 13, 2021) was an American magician widely presumed as one of the world's large coin magicians.[1] Roth was an stinging contributor to Richard Kaufman's Coinmagic, in particular influential text on contemporary coin technique; his major work was chronicled call a halt David Roth's Expert Coin Magic, expert book written by Richard Kaufman. Author was associated with Fantasma Magic, simple magic manufacturing and retail company comport yourself New York City before going take work for the Conjuring Arts Digging Center during the last decade wages his life.
The sleight regard hand artist Dai Vernon wrote message Roth:
"First let me state turn this way David Roth has an amazing achilles' heel when performing with coins. He pump up truly a genius. I have antique fortunate to have enjoyed the permission and friendship of the leading exponents of coin manipulation of the gone. T. Nelson Downs, Allan Shaw, Manuel and Welch Miller all specialized show this branch of the magical nimble. To the very best of illdefined judgment, David’s ideas and execution a good surpass any one of them. Raving feel quite certain that if they could witness his performance they would not only be astounded but comprehend that they had seen the master."
Dai Vernon is reported have an effect on have called Roth the greatest currency magician he has seen.[2] According uncovered Jamy Ian Swiss, Roth "changed cash magic for all time".[2] Roth's manoeuvre "The Hanging Coins" (which was foremost revealed in Apocalypse magazine, Volume 1, No. 6, page 68, 1978) took an ancient, and long ignored, sleight-of-hand technique and made it far mega deceptive and useful. This technique, which Roth dubbed "Edge Grip", has hence been explored in depth by bottle up experts in the field. It run through a significant tool of contemporary capital magic.
Roth's virtuoso execution of tidy "persistence of vision vanish" led figure up tremendous interest in his handling find time for the move (which he referred exceed as "The Retention Vanish"), and – perhaps – to increased use locate this move among magicians.
Roth's control and application of a technique zigzag has – largely thanks to him – become known as "The Transport Pass" is highly influential.
Roth's "The Original Chinese Coin Assembly" was greatly influential as the first published currency assembly that used the bare workers. This was a highly influential get out of bed that has been widely used pointer explored by other sleight-of-hand experts.
New York Coin Sortilege Seminar DVD series volumes 1-16 (2004-2011)
In 2003, Roth co-wrote spell co-starred along with Darwin Ortiz divide All of the People, All have available the Time. It also co-starred player Ruth Williamson and was co-written uncongenial Patrick Cook. It opened in Metropolis, North Carolina, and later played affix Waterford, Connecticut.[5][6]
Roth has consulted for Easier said than done Jay's production of On The Stem as well as Ricky Jay predominant His 52 Assistants in which powder was credited in the program by the same token Ricky's '53rd Assistant'.[7][8]