# David & Dania on "America's Got Talent" - How the hell do they do that? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 4, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-dania-on-americas-got-talent-how-the-hell-do-they-do-that/367272 "2006-08-04T01:47:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-dania-on-americas-got-talent-how-the-hell-do-they-do-that/367272/1 "2006-08-04T01:47:25Z")
The quick change artists. The woman’s clothes change nearly instantaneously. How is this done? It seems almost impossible. Does the man’s huge, weird looking jacket have something to do with it. [Here’s a video clip of it](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-wUgnyGv0) ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-dania-on-americas-got-talent-how-the-hell-do-they-do-that/367272/2 "2006-08-04T03:00:38Z")
I have no idea but it was pretty dahm impressive. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-dania-on-americas-got-talent-how-the-hell-do-they-do-that/367272/3 "2006-08-04T03:06:41Z")
My best bet is they sold their souls to the Devil. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-dania-on-americas-got-talent-how-the-hell-do-they-do-that/367272/4 "2006-08-04T03:15:20Z")
[QUOTE=RandMcnally] My best bet is they sold their souls to the Devil. [/QUOTE] ::checks list of souls I’m supposed to be carting to hell in next shipment:: Not unless they did it before 1998. I am SOOOOO behind on my damned-soul shipping. Uncle Lucy’s going to kill me. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-dania-on-americas-got-talent-how-the-hell-do-they-do-that/367272/5 "2006-08-04T03:17:27Z")
Look at where she puts her hands before the last trick. ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-dania-on-americas-got-talent-how-the-hell-do-they-do-that/367272/6 "2006-08-04T03:27:01Z")
My guess is that she is wearing a multi-layered outfit that sort of breaks away layer by layer. Watch the switch from the dark green outfit to the dark blue one and you can see for a split second the transition between the two outfits. The blue one just falls right into place. Impressive all the same. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-dania-on-americas-got-talent-how-the-hell-do-they-do-that/367272/7 "2006-08-04T03:33:15Z")
[QUOTE=Fern Forest] Look at where she puts her hands before the last trick. [/QUOTE] Still it’s just _so_ quick and it’s an entirely new outfit. Look at the change at 60 seconds in the video. There’s no convoluted movement. There’s just a new outfit seemingly out of thin air. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-dania-on-americas-got-talent-how-the-hell-do-they-do-that/367272/8 "2006-08-04T03:58:28Z")
[Here’s some interesting backgrouind on them](http://www.slate.com/id/2138613/) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-dania-on-americas-got-talent-how-the-hell-do-they-do-that/367272/9 "2006-08-04T19:31:41Z")
[The Pendragons](http://www.thependragons.net/) do a variation on that. If you click the link and watch the few seconds of Metamorphisis, the full version usually involves them wearing opposite colors, such as him in black and her in white. One locks the other in the trunk, picks up the cape and they do the metamorphisis. The one locked in the trunk shows up wearing white and when s/he unlocks the trunk, the other is in there wearing black. Impressive as hell.