The performance art of card flourishing, its name a portmanteau of card and artistry, practiced by those who call themselves cardists. Using nothing but the hands, a cardist creates cuts, displays, fans, patterns and sequences with a deck of playing cards to produce a captivating motion and a visually striking display. Unlike card magic, cardistry is meant to look visually impressive and difficult to execute, with nothing hidden; its presentation is typically neither illusionary nor claimed as magic, closer in spirit to juggling, mime or similar purely skill-based performing arts than to sleight of hand meant to deceive.
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Cardistry grew out of the card magic and flourishing community and remains closely associated with it, though it is a distinct, non-illusory discipline focused on visual technique rather than trickery.
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Cardistry is the performance art of card flourishing.
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