Hi all,

I was wondering if you could help me with an article that I'm hoping to write. I need a handle from which to launch my ideas. I was wondering how many ideas you could come up with. My article will be about performance ontology - the being of performance: what performance is.

1) What is a performer?
2) What is an audience?
3) What is a performance?

The more ideas I get for those three questions, the better! Please let me know what you all think and be as detailed as you possibly can!

Thanks!
Best wishes!!!

A perfomer is a man with a hard rod eg myself or Jeff Stryker. An audience is someone who likes to watch!!!, eg someone who downloads internet porn, buys stick books or hires dvds. A performances is when the lady climaxes, whether it be fake or real or when she get a load on her face.

1) What is a performer?
2) What is an audience?
3) What is a performance?

Hello...as a professional keyboardist onstage for many years, I find your questions very interesting. I have been onstage since the age of 9 years, and I am 59 years as of this date. I have performed all over the West Coast, and Central America, and am about to embark on a career in the UK. So, I have some thoughts on your ideas...

A performer is a person, totally and unconditionally dedicated to their particular art form, for which they will always put it first, even to the point of great personal loss. My art is music, and I have given up relationships, job security in other fields, and things that most people would consider their just due. I chose a life, from a very young age, of sharing my love of music with an audience, and nothing else could sway me from that choice. A performer is addicted to his/her art form.

An audience is anyone who will listen or pay attention to what the artist lays in front of them, be it one single person, or a crowd of thousands. It doesn't matter to the artist, but it is especially sweet to have an audience that responds. To reap the fruits of 'no reaction' to any artist, is like a slow death. Art is a give/take relationship, and it cannot be otherwise. An audience is a crucial part of the growing process that every artist craves. Constructive criticism is how any artist learns how to improve the quality of their work.

A performance is the act of an artist giving of themselves and their chosen form of art, be it music, painting, acting, comedy, sports, and the list goes on. What each person does in their life, if they throw their hearts and souls into their efforts, it becomes a performance. It doesn't matter the form that effort takes, it does matter if it is done with the heart and soul, and that makes it a 'performance'.

Thank you for listening. I hope some of these notes from a stranger will help you, in some small way, and I enjoyed my time here...

sunnyh

Sunnyh nailed it.

I would like to add that to the performer, giving a performance should be natural, and part of their life....just like the art they perform.

I'm sure Sunnyh also implied this.