Yann Frisch is a French
magician
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Performers
* A practitioner of magic (supernatural)
* A practitioner of magic (illusion)
* Magician (fantasy), a character in a fictional fantasy context
Entertainment
Books
* ''The Magician'', an 18th-ce ...
. His signature
magic trick
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is a
cup and ball trick called "Baltass."
A video of his
sleight of hand
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Baltass performance was viewed 1.3 million times on
YouTube
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in just over one week in 2012.
His work has been featured on
Laughing Squid
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Boing Boing
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MSN
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Gawker
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, and ''
The Blaze''.
Frisch won the Grand Prix in close-up magic at
FISM 2012.
He was also named Champion du Monde at the 2012
Beijing International Magic Convention.
In 2020, he plays a character in a movie called "
Les 2 Alfred", which was selected for the
Cannes Film Festival
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References
External links
Another presentation of him
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French magicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)