Icarus Effect The Ultimate in, Practical, Un-assisted Self- Levitation. Imagine this: You stand face to face with someone, your back to a curb, step or staircase. Your participant holds his/her hands out, palms up, while you place your hands, palms down, lightly on top of theirs. By applying minimal pressure to the spectator’s hands you are able to apparently levitate up on to the top of the step. As you levitate and float upward, the participant can clearly see under both of your feet, seeing both of your heels and toes rising off of the ground. As if that were not enough, you then calmly float off of the curb and back down to the ground and are clean to walk away. That’s right. No get-ready. No clean-up. Anywhere. Anytime.