write an article on Harry Houdini. It needs to be at least 2250 words. Through the control of his breathing and training his muscles individually rather than in groups, he was flexible and strong in ways that most people are not.
Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Harry Houdini. It needs to be at least 2250 words. Through the control of his breathing and training his muscles individually rather than in groups, he was flexible and strong in ways that most people are not. The training of his body provided him with an extraordinarily powerful level of control, and Harry Houdini was able to create some of the most wondrous performances of escape art in history.
Harry Houdini was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1874, moving to Appleton, Wisconsin in 1878 with his mother and siblings. His birth name was Eric Weisz, which was changed to a German version of Erik Weiss as he immigrated with his family. As friends called him Ehrie, which sounded remarkably like Harry, he came to be named publicly as Harry. His last name was created through his admiration of Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin, a French magician. These changes in identity can be related to his physiological skills in the sense that he was under constant transformation. As a child, he started his first performance experience at the age of nine as a trapeze artist called ‘Ehrick, the Prince of Air’. He considered his first public performance as having started on October 28, 1883, where he performed his trapeze show in Jack Hoeffler’s 5-cent Circus. His physical training can be traced back through his childhood, as he trained for his acts and as he was a cross-country running champion. With a high interest in gymnastics and acrobatics, he developed physicality in his youth that will serve him as he trained and performed throughout his life (Kalush & Sloman, 2006).
Harry Houdini had two very distinct talents. The first was that he was an amazing showman who knew how to create a spectacle in order to raise interest in his shows. As an example, he put on a tour in Europe in which he challenged police departments to lock him in their handcuffs only to amaze them as time after time he managed to escape. The act of escape was part of his second talent.