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While other teenagers are doing teenager stuff, a local girl is literally doing magic \u2013 \u201cpulling rabbits out of a hat\u201d and \u201csawing her partner into pieces\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anja Steyn, a Grade 9 learner at Durbanville High School, has just won trophies in two categories at the International Youth Magic Championships in Atlanta, USA \u2013 in the close-up category with her Cups-and-ice cubes act and in the stage category with her Think-a-drink act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anja, who will be 15 years old on 21 August, also attended the International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM) convention, which was held at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was nine years old when she became intrigued in magic after she saw a show of Lance Burton in which he performed his dove act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her parents drove her to the College of Magic in Claremont for classes on Saturdays. She has won several competitions and won several prizes at the college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dedication<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At ten, Anja became the youngest member of the Bernard Deyer Junior Order in 2019. The order was created by the South African Magical Society (Sams) when they saw Anja\u2019s dedication during a \u201cMagic cruise\u201d in Durban as part of a convention to celebrate the society\u2019s 100th anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Covid-19, she had the opportunity to vitually join the Lance Burton Teen Seminar in 2020. Through this programme, she was introduced to Jeff McBride\u2019s Magic and Mystery School in Las Vegas, and became a virtual student of the school later that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anja Steyn, a Grade 9 learner at Durbanville High School, has just won trophies in two categories at the International Youth Magic Championships in Atlanta, USA, with her magic tricks. PHOTO: Piet Steyn<\/div>\n
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This year in July Anja went to Atlanta in the USA in person to attend the seminar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe teen seminar is more than just magic, it\u2019s about making life-long friendships, and learning skills you\u2019ll use for the rest of your life. It\u2019s amazing being able to meet, and be taught by some of the greatest magicians or magic teachers of our time,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anja has received several awards in her five years of magic. Some of those include Student of the Year at the College of Magic and the Dennis Greef Creativity and Originality Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also came second last year in IBM\u2019s virtual youth contest, and also received the Adele Friel Rhindress Young Magician Award for advancing the art and history of magic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Praised<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Anja and her partner in some acts, Sisonke Mkwela, were praised in a review in June this year for their acts at The College of Magic\u2019s The Magic Key show at Artscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe see Anja Steyn \u2018compressing\u2019 Sisonke Mkwela, concertina-like style. It is a dazzling squash and a squeeze. This duo also cream it in Think a Drink \u2013 in which we see Steyn producing an endless supply of beverages from a cardboard container. Mkwela is her assistant, Ronald. His brilliant clowning is part of the success of this routine and feeds into our incredulity as audience as we gasp at the endless stream of drinks,\u201d was the comment in a review by Robyn Cohen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About her recent achievements, Anja says on IBM\u2019s Facebook page she was really nervous about doing the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two trophies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t done a live competition in almost a year. But everyone was really supportive and I\u2019m so glad I pushed through. It made me realise once again why I do magic \u2026 it\u2019s to make people smile,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a feeling I cannot put to words \u2013 being able to walk away with two trophies. This is not something I\u2019ve ever dreamt of, not even in my wildest dreams. It really is a huge honour,\u201d Anja says. Although magic is her first love, she is interested in human behaviour or psychology as a career one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anja Steyn, a Grade 9 learner at Durbanville High School, has just won trophies in two categories at the International Youth Magic Championships in Atlanta, USA, with her magic tricks. See page \u2026.. PHOTO: Piet Steyn<\/div>\n
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