Platform magic (also known as
parlor magic,
club magic or
cabaret magic) is
magic that is done for larger audiences than
close-up magic and for smaller audiences than
stage magic. It is more intimate than stage magic because it doesn't require expensive, large-scale stage equipment and can thus be performed closer to the audience and without a stage. Many of the tricks performed by platform magicians are sufficiently angle-sensitive as to make them impossible to perform as
micromagic. Most working magicians are parlor/platform magicians.