Designer: Peter Van Rhein
Exclusive Performance Rights: Micky∼Elly
Peter Van Rhein is an illusionist who performed in the Preston Palace Hotel in the Netherlands. During his final years at the hotel, he developed a new floating system for floating different kind of objects of different weights. The system is a high tech, complicated, and expensive device. It allows objects to move in each of the X, Y, and Z axes. The final system was completed in the fall of 2013 just as Van Rhein's contract with the hotel had expired. The plan was to have Micky∼Elly (Van Rhein's wife) to perform the illusion for the next season, but the economy was prohibitive.
The system can be used to float a ball. The ball rotates 360 degrees around the magician's body at any desired height and as many times as the performer desires. The magician can wave his hands over it to prove there are no cables/wires. Another levitation included 3 individually floating candles and a floating stand. A candle stand rests upon a table and the candles float up one by one out of the stand, each candle making a different flight path. The candle stand then floats up and the candles return to the stand while the stand is moving in the air.
The system could also be used to aid an instant vanish of a performer or assistant. The assistant stands on a table raising a cloth over her. A bright light from behind the cloth shows her shadow on the cloth. The performer pulls down the cloth and the assistant has instantly vanished.