Name: Joan Du Kore.

Also Answers To: "Sleight Of Feet."

Occupation / Title: Magician. Dancer. Singer. Showgirl. Human marionette. Living Statue. IKEA expert. Las Vegas Tour Guide. Linguist.

Brief Summary: Joan is a skilled professional magician with many additional strings to her bow, not least the fact that she's a trained dancer. Definitely one of the best people to hang out with in Las Vegas.

World Records Held:
Best Female Close-Up Magician I Know
Most Multi-Lingual Magician I Know
Smallest Hands In The World
Joint Best Dancer (title shared with Maria T.)

Other Notable Achievements & Honours: Weighs nothing. Tells some of the best jokes you'll ever hear, including the world's best knock-knock joke.

Best Party Trick: Entertains fellow magic geeks by reciting the patter to well-known tricks in foreign languages. If you haven't heard her reciting, for example, the patter for 'sponge bunnies' in Russian or Japanese, you haven't lived. Can also recite all the islands of Hawaii, where she was born. Look them up some time, and you'll realise this is harder than it sounds.

Special Powers: (1) Has the ability to eat normal food and yet continue to weigh absolutely nothing at all. (2) Can make coffee vanish. (3) Speaks about six languages. (4) Upon hitting the dance floor, transforms into a living blur, like watching Ginger Rogers on fast-forward.

Known Weaknesses: Requires regular injection of caffeine. If deprived of coffee or Diet Coke for longer than 2 hours, loses all her powers and begins to fade away completely.

Catchphrase: "Can I get a coffee round here?"