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Omar Pasha is «one of the best modern alchemists of our time (who) comes to the Christmas Theater to give us magic, humor and strong emotions» 

The elite of illusionists arrive in Valladolid.

For his part, Omar Pasha represents a tradition preserved over four generations. In his Black Art act, Omar Pasha creates spectacular visual effects in a game of shadows and lights. Objects and people appear and vanish into thin air.

The great Black Art’s effects.       Dressed in an oriental style, Omar Pasha reminds the tradition with his costume and his Black Art in which people appear and disappear inexplicably and even manage to have his assistant literally loose his head.

A night of oriental fairy tales.

All dressed in white on a stage all draped in black, appeared Omar Pasha, showing how the Black Art can really be magic. People and objects appeared out of nowhere and went away by the same way. People floated in the air and  switched places.

Magic and poetry with the great Omar Pasha.

Omar Pasha, wearing a cape and turban, can make anything which comes to hand vanish – and then while his eyes still observe, he himself disappears.

Clearly dangerous, as Omar Pasha is standing on the cutting edge of his sword.

Mere mortals will never know Omar Pasha’s secret. He makes people disappear behind simple fabrics and, to the last crescendo of Ravel’s Bolero, he himself vanishes into thin air. Abracadabra !” 

Here comes Omar Pasha. To the sounds of the Ravel’s Bolero, the man from Marrakech is painting a colored door in the darkness. In a flash, as if suddenly appearing out of the floor, a beautiful Oriental girl moves forward – and poof ! she vanishes into thin air.

In Omar Pasha’s Black Art, using his gleaming sword, the father cuts off his own son’s head …

Omar Pasha, prince of illusion.

This act, already several dozens of years old, is nevertheless still up-to-date. The Black Art presentation with its oriental characters is reminiscent of tales in The Thousand and One Nights. Tables, candles and even a beautiful Oriental young lady, are creations painted by the master’s hand himself which then come to life, magically change place and in turn, disappear into nothing. There is even a beheading of an assistant with the use of a big sword. Without a single drop of blood shed, rather than horrifying, this takes on a fairytale appearance. And when finally, passing under a cloth, Omar Pasha dissolves himself into nowhere, you can only rub your eyes in disbelief.

But for me the undoubted star of the show is a chap called Omar Pasha. He doesn’t say a word. What he does, brilliantly, is to make people and things disappear before your very astounded eyes.

What an illusionist !

For me, however, they were eclipsed by an illusionist called Omar Pasha who, in one of the classiest magic acts I have ever seen,actually makes a variety of objects appear and disappear before our very  eyes – including himself.

Omar Pasha is a delightful magician.

Omar Pasha, accompanied by the spellbinding music of Ravel’s Bolero, is a dazzling illusionist – a master in the art of black light.

Omar Pasha achieves impressive effects, making objects and people appear and disappear, before finally making himself disappear.  A guaranteed dazzling performance. 

The magicians’ encounter of Almussafes counts in this edition the french artist Omar Pasha, creator of the best show in the world in the speciality of black art.

Omar Pasha’s act is about the best magic turn in the world.

To the sound of Ravel’s Bolero, Omar Pasha creates a poetry of wordless magic. From nowhere he causes pieces of fabric, objects and people to appear.  Then he makes them to disappear without leaving a single trace – just as he himself disappears at the finale.  This is magic of the finest dexterity.

In this show it is immediately apparent that the performers combine professionalism, accuracy and speed alongside their artistic presentation. One man holds everything together : that is the illusionist Omar Pasha. Using fabrics and other accessories he makes objects and people move, exchange places and disappear. Finally, a ghost dances, and Pasha himself vanishes.

Omar Pasha, with his mind bending magic show, comes from Paris. It is truly amazing how, to the sound of Ravel’s Bolero, he metamorphoses people into ghosts and makes them vanish, creates objects to appear out of thin air and at the end, dematerializes himself.

Once more, Omar Pasha teaches us a real magic lesson, when performing his international black art act. And it is still fresh after 34 years. Historically, the name Omar Pasha was created in 1960 by Willy Berscheid and the act is brilliantly maintained since 1975 by the Ostrowsky family. A nice filiation and longevity story.

The magician adopts the context of the Thousand and One Nights tales to call our collective unconscious into being, while playing with this exotic ambience.  Technically perfect and aesthetically strong, this timeless act continues to bewitch audiences all over the world. To the sound of Ravel’s Bolero, other-worldly substance takes over from every day reality, and the poetry begins. Simply said, one of the best visual acts the world over. Bravo to Ernest Ostrowsky who perpetuates the Black Art tradition so brilliantly.

Omar Pasha is an outstanding magician traveling throughout the world. He performs an act in which objects and people appear, disappear and change of place miraculously, like in a 1001 Nights’ tale. 

Every evening he amazed the audience with his magic presentation. It is time to speak of his beautiful artistic skills. He is the best magician visiting us. All the required aura of mystery to enthral. His fine and stylish gestures make appear or disappear objects a thousand times faster than a twinkling of an eye. His act is altogether aesthetic and fine and includes a marvelous know-how.

Omar Pasha : an outstanding magician

Omar Pasha performs magic on a very oriental way, in the traditional  fakirs’ style or better said in the style of the Aladin’s tale of fantasy. He floats over the stage and even vanishes into thin air.

Nothing remains but a single dust. The audience has been impressed by the act.

At the time of the original “Zauber Zauber” show, as well as today, Omar Pasha is part of the program. He is a Black Art’s authentic master. He astonishes the spectators with his fabulous act. With him, the Here and Now are totally forgotten. As a mysterious magician from the Thousand and one Nights fairy-tale, the French illusionist makes tables fly, candlesticks appear from nowhere or people vanish.

Totally incredible : the Black Art of Omar Pasha from Paris and the man without his head.

Black Art to exceptional perfection : Omar Pasha bewitches the Friedrichsbau Variety Theater. He inverts the established rules, tables are flying, candelabras appear from nowhere : Omar Pasha celebrates the Black Art with a rare perfection to the music of Ravel’s Bolero.

Omar Pasha shows the unexpected possibilities of visual manipulation in his Black Art’s interpretation. Poetically and with the power of color and light, Omar Pasha metamorphoses oriental stories into artistic tales.

Just as the pace of the Hula-Hoop act is lightning fast, so the magic of the “black art” is seamless in creating an otherworldly atmosphere. The stage becomes dark, fire red bulbs shine and in the center of those lights a man wearing a white turban bows. With dignity, Omar Pasha makes tables and chairs float through the space or even makes his assistants vanish.

At the finale of the show, the audience showed great enthusiasm for the oriental Omar Pasha and its Black Art’s magic.

Omar Pasha offers a rather unique blend of theatrical illusions.

Illusionist Omar Pasha of Paris is one performance you must not miss.

Omar Pasha had the audience completely astounded.

The master illusionist Omar Pasha came on.

With the wave of a scarf or just his finger, he created chairs and yes even a man out of the blanket of darkness which enveloped him.

During a highpoint in the act, he even whisked off a man’s head, placed it in his hand and screwed it back on again.

Omar Pasha : stunning performance.

After intermission we were treated to a return of a great old act : Omar Pasha. It was a hit. Gaetan Bloom and Omar Pasha both stopped the show.

*Bev Bergeron, actor and magician, born in 1930, is one of the great comedy magicians in the United States.

Omar Pasha comes on stage. Objects appear from nowhere. Spirits  float around him. The magician makes the audience both astounded and enthusiastic. With the help of a magical paint brush, he draws a candlestick which appears in the darkness. He cuts off the head of his assistant and then makes him vanish entirely before to make him reappear. Next the magician stands on a sword’s cutting edge.

Omar Pasha bewitches with his Black Art magic . As a virtuoso, he makes objects disappear and reappear within a second, until finally he makes himself disappear.  

Omar Pasha makes heads roll along.

It happens sometimes that people lose their heads, but nobody stays calm as Omar Pasha’s “victim”.  From tonight on, with the magician from Marrakech in the great revue Zauber Zauber at the Theater des Westens, not only heads roll, but finally Omar Pasha makes himself disappear!

Omar Pasha is one of the greatest stage acts in the history of magic. Here is 12 minutes of real miracles, flawlessly performed, where the impossible is made possible through the use of the 100-year-old principle of Black Art. Omar, played by Ernest Ostrowsky, (…) wove a spell over the audience as the classic “Bolero” played.

Omar Pasha produces Day-Glo objects (and people) at will and then simply erases them, as if they were no more than chalk drawings on a kindergarten blackboard.

Their is astounding magic and illusions that are impossible to figure out.

Omar Pasha creates flabbergasting illusions.

When Omar Pasha and his assistants do black-light theater, one is transposed to the world of Thomas Mann’s Transposed Heads.

Omar Pasha would even persuade Penn and Teller* to disappear. *The famous magicians Penn and Teller were then performing since a long time in N.Y.

There is Omar, a master of illusions, who makes things and people appear and disappear, including finally himself.

From Omar Pasha, a French born husband and wife team, there’s a magic act that include disappearing heads and bodies, and flames that jump from one candle to another.

Omar Pasha does first class magic.

Dearest Ernest, Michelle, Louis, It is my privilege and pleasure to be working with you on Broadway’s newest hit ! You bring mystery and magic to the American stage ! Thank you for being so wonderful and warm. Congratulations, with love

The Seminar Awards Stage Show was dominated by one man : Omar Pasha. The buzz before and after was high-pitched. The rest was reverential silence and rapt awe. What “Bolero” secretly praises is what Omar Pasha’s black artistry does to every magician’s mind. The standing ovation was not only inevitable, it was preordained.

Wednesday, March 5  (1997)

It’s black and it’s art …

… the real treat of the afternoon was the performance by France’s Omar Pasha with his black art act. The entire act was framed by an array of red light bulbs, and the black art worked to perfection. I was sitting quite close to the stage and could see nothing suspicious. A black art act is a tough thing to develop: if you could do real magic, what would you do? Omar Pasha’s answer to this question earned him the first standing ovation of the convention.

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The booking of sensational Omar Pasha act.

Next up was the artistry of Omar Pasha. The basic concept of this black art act is well over a century old, yet the modern-day, CD-indoctrinated audience that stalled out of the first-half of the show was in a state of astonishment. A 16 year-old kid at the snack bar said , “That’s the first time I’ve ever seen special effects done live, right before your eyes! That Omar Pasha was cool.”

There is the exotic : Omar Pasha, with his colorful “black art” from India, creates colorful whimsical black-light illusions of floating boxes, assistants who loose their heads, a poster that comes to life and a leaping candle flame.

Gaze in amazement at Omar Pasha, a world famous wizard of illusion, as he astonishes you with his black cabinet technique of magic.

Marvel at the magician Omar Pasha, who “stands” on a raised sword, “removes” a head of an assistant, and oozes his own brand of mystical charm – all in his “black theatre”.

Omar Pasha from France makes objects, and even people, vanish under the astounded audience’s watchful eye.

Without doubt, the best act of the magic festival is the Frenchman Omar Pasha; standing ovation.

Omar Pasha stirred the enthusiastic audience into clapping and laughing.

Omar Pasha from France, the event at the National Theatre.

The stage is set, but you cannot see anything. Why ? It is dark, black as the night sky. And then suddenly, there appears a man in a voluminous white robe. This is Omar Pasha, the King of Black Art, a performance by Louis-Olivier Ostrowsky, a fourth generation performer, who’s been keeping alive a 120-year family tradition.
Taking the phrase “seeing is believing” to a whole new level, Omar Pasha blurs the line between the real and the illusory having you gaping, gasping and staring in wonder as objects arrive and vanish without so much as seeking permission. He takes off his assistant’s head, and when the torso demands it back, obliges by putting it back on.

The audience is awestruck as black magic illusionist Louis-Olivier Ostrowsky makes tables, chairs and people appear out of thin air and disappear.

Omar Pasha garners an ovation from the audience.

The magic of Omar Pasha creates the biggest enthusiasm.

His svelte silhouette moves through the stage in a halo of light. Each of his hand’s movements announces an unexpected apparition in front of the attentive eyes of the spectator, who will never discover the “trick”.

Friday 14 June 2013
BREATHLESS IN CHENNAI ! There’s Omar Pasha, a Black Art performance, popular for over 120 years, by the enigmatic Louis-Olivier Ostrowsky, who blurs the line between the real and the illusory.

OMAR PASHA – THE WORLDS BEST BLACK THEATER ILLUSION
Black art tricks your vision to the point that you would rub your eyes in amazement. Omar Pasha presents acts of disappearing and re-appearing objects and people out of what seems like thin air. Expertly presented by Louis-Olivier Ostrowsky, a fourth generation performer who has kept alive the 120-year tradition of his family, Omar Pasha, stands as the benchmark in black art. “Seeing is believing”, is now put to test as Omar Pasha’s Black Arts’ tricks challenge your reason and logic.

To finish, Omar Pasha makes people disappear and then, he, himself, is no longer on. Hop! He is away – but he just was there in his white costume. Reality, dream, magic ? He is a master who dominates the Black Art’s theater method.

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What you see, there on stage, is simply incredible. Reality, illusion, or just a dream ? Objects appear and disappear, flames move from one candle to an other, heads float in the darkness . . . Omar Pasha produces a marvelous magical Black Art, a magic which takes you into the world of the Thousand and One Nights. Along the decades, that magical art, which dates back to 1885, is maintained to perfection. Nowadays Omar Pasha is regarded worldwide as the one and only illusionist who brilliantly masters this magical technique.

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The magic act amazes greatly the audience. For me, the best moment of the evening.

The Omar Pasha black art illusion act is amazing audiences at Jupiters’ new show Hidden Palace.

The Omar Pasha act is the only one of its kind in the world. (…) He performs an amazing version of the Indian rope trick whereby he climbs a rope that is apparently suspended in mid air and he makes a flame float through the air from one candle to another.