“Combining grand illusions, Chi-Ling recreated surreal visuals in front of viewers’ own eyes”
---China Times---“The magic props are astonishing.”
---UDN.com---“The magic comes naturally in the performance following the story.”
---Lipao, Taiwan---Fusing multiple performing styles in the story including music, circus acrobats and grand illusion, it introduces an imaginary world with great creativity.
----Awakening News Networks---Chi-Ling Liu spent ten years effort entering the world of magic. He created a magic theatre costing more than three-hundred thousand US dollars. The show brought something never-be-seen before for the audience.
---CTiTV News---A groundbreaking production. It is a never-been-seen kind of theatre. I feel that it will affect the future of the performing art of Taiwan, even in Mainland China, and the entire world can take it as a learning example.
---Dr. Jing-Jyi Wu---Combines magic tricks with other performing arts, will challenge itself by staging more than 100 shows in two months in Taipei. Liu Chi-ling (劉季陵), a music composer who founded NX Theatre, said that over the past 10 years, he has spent more than NT$5 million (US$169,000) on large-scale props and equipment from Las Vegas, Nevada, in the hope of creating a new entertaining art form.
---Taipei Times---The magic props are astonishing.
---UDN.com---Combines magic tricks with other performing arts, will challenge itself by staging more than 100 shows in two months in Taipei. Liu Chi-ling (劉季陵), a music composer who founded NX Theatre, said that over the past 10 years, he has spent more than NT$5 million (US$169,000) on large-scale props and equipment from Las Vegas, Nevada, in the hope of creating a new entertaining art form.
---Taipei Times---Mixing music and illusion, it creates a fantastic visual in the theatre, and has the audience experience a new territory of the art of illusion. Some beautiful imagination and incredible magics mixed into an orchestrated world. The illusion was elevated into some kind of art, and it completely moves the audience. Chi-Ling Liu makes you see the “magic” and “art” of the theatre.
---PAR magazine---The special effects of Hollywood can appear in the theatre, and in front your eyes.
---MUZIK magazine---The once Golden Melody winner Chi-Ling Liu, now a fanatic magic prop designer.
---Liberty Times---Fusing illusion and musical, it fought a successful bottle on the grounds of both art and entertainment.
---United News---It gave me great pleasure. All elements are right up there.
--- Hwai-Min Lin, Cloud Gate Dance Company Founder---It is very good and moving. It can be this easy to be in the magic world. After entering it, I finally understand why so many people like it just like that.
---Arthur Yu-Ning Chu, film director---It is a very new and bold attempt that is worthy for everyone to see. It combines elements of different art forms. I think that this show, or many future works coming from this place would really need people’s participation and support. I hope you can come and give them some applause.
---Hsiao Wen Ting, music producer---“Chi-Ling was chased by many ideas into an unknown territory that he had never thought of.” “He likes to play. When he wants to play, he is more serious than anyone.”
---Hung-Hung , director---For Chi-Ling Liu, writing poetry comes naturally. He makes sure of himself that creating is the only aspiration through writing. Although he doesn’t write poetry as much now, but he once produced 200 tunes in a day. It was almost like that he devoured great amount of philosophy, literature, politics in thoughts, and after digesting, he could produce lines after lines of poems. He could make all things in life into music one after another.
---Excellence Magazine---Chi-Ling Liu tells moving stories through music, words and illusions. Isn’t it the story in our dreams? Liu devotes everything to work on his dreams. He turns magic into art by making an orchestrated world created by his colorful imagination and incredible magics to move the audience deeply!
---PAR Magazine---It made a new record whether in the form of the performance or the total number of shows. It is a new milestone for the performance art industry in Taiwan.
---SINA.net---The show took music that is full of magic into the National Concert Hall in Taipei. It presents classical music with a storytelling concept with fun. It is a great show putting together with elements including music, illusion, drama, dance, and video for the audience.
---China Times---It was an illusion show come naturally. The audience shouted and screams throughout the show. It was very entertaining, and a visual feast.
---Want Daily---It shows classical music with fun elements. In one show, you get to see illusions, theatre, dances, video images and much more.
---UDN.com---The first ever magic concert with fantastic visual effects.
---Awakening News Networks---“The existence of human beings is surely very magic.” Chi-Ling Liu spoke of his thoughts with this sentence that has left room for imagination. He likes to invent new formats to perform, and he thinks that in some ways, music is same as visual. His magic show is not traditional. He reinvents it by understanding the theories and methods of illusion acts. He then puts magic into suitable places in the plot. When viewers see the carefully designed and incredible scenes, they would want to know: how was it done? At the same time, they would also feel moved by it.
--MUZIK magazine---It is a great illusion show with live orchestra and multimedia presentation. It reconstructs your visual sense and provides you a puzzle solving and mind-blowing experience.
---Liberty Times---Magic includes unrealness and mysteriousness. The Magic theatre is a perfect combination of art and science. The team breaks out from the conventional frame of magic, and mixes a complete story, illusion props, special effects with lights and projections to present an unexpected magic journey.
---ChinaTimes.com---It is the first in Taiwan, and even not easily to be found in the world. Further, it was originated and made in Taiwan. It is worth to be proud!!
---Sisi’s World News---He elevated the illusion tricks to the level of art, and he showed the audience the intangible surrealism. While raising the quality of the illusion, he also brought theatre to a new frontier.
---PAR magazine---