page_title: Sleight of hand
section_title: Association with cardistry
hierarchical_section_title: Sleight of hand / Etymology and history / Association with cardistry
caption_attribution_description: English: Shahan Bedrosian performing his card flourish Poleaxe
context_page_description: Sleight of hand refers to fine motor skills when used by performing artists in different art forms to entertain or manipulate. It is closely associated with close-up magic, card magic, card flourishing and stealing.
  Because of its heavy use and practice by magicians, sleight of hand is often confused as a branch of magic. But it is actually a separate genre of entertainment and many artists practice sleight of hand as an independent skill.
  Sleight of hand pioneers with worldwide acclaim include Dan and Dave, Ricky Jay, Derek DelGaudio, David Copperfield, Yann Frisch, Norbert Ferré, Dai Vernon, Cardini and Tony Slydini.
context_section_description: Unlike card tricks done on the streets or on stage and card cheating, cardistry is solely about impressing without illusions, deceit, misdirection and other elements commonly used in card tricks and card cheating. Cardistry is the art of card flourishing, and is intended to be visually impressive and to give the appearance of being difficult to perform. Card flourishing is often associated with card tricks, but many sleight of hand artists perform flourishing without considering themselves magicians or having any real interest in card tricks.
caption: Cardistry is closely related to sleight of hand
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "ACDSee Pro 5", "Image DateTime": "2012:12:31 12:47:53", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "159", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "267", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "9094", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF SubSecTime": "772", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "837", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "695"}