Magic has been around for many years in some form or another, always a very popular but secretive form of entertainment.
Could it be that magic is indeed the ultimate performance art? There must be nothing quite like the joy of successfully performing a clever magic trick.
You are doing something that nobody else present can do, and everyone looks on in awe and amazement, clapping away and gasping with delight and wonder.
Performance magic must be one of the hardest professions to get into.
To successfully perform clever magic tricks, you would need to practice over and over again many times until you were able to get it totally right without even thinking about it.
But what are people in the audience thinking when they see a clever trick being performed? Are some of them perhaps so blown away with it that they are convinced that the performer does indeed have genuine supernatural powers? Well, maybe a few naive people believe that, but the majority of audience members are merely blown away by the performer's apparent ability to make the impossible appear possible.
It is this amazement and gasping wonder at how you performed such an impossible trick that makes for such great entertainment for them.
In that sense, magic is the ultimate type of performance, because it takes such practice and dedication to get right.
It is the pinnacle of performance skill, and it must be extremely rewarding to hold an audience in your hands just like that.