Last weekends performances
Between street performing and my sets at the Fenix Underground, I focused on slowing down. It felt good to really give my audiences a chance to absorb what they were seeing and an opportunity to react and respond. It's always been a problem with me to go too fast. As a young street performer I was always afraid of my audiences walking away during the performance. It caused me to develop a rapid fire approach to my performances. These days as an aging and maturing performer I can appreciate the need to slow down, accept the fact that not everyone will stay for the whole show, calm down and enjoy the pace that I determine and carry out.
I've been in a depressed funk for a while. Today I took a nice walk on the beach across the street from my house, smoked a cigar and asked myself, "what do I really have to be depressed about?". LIfe is good. All the mysteries of life will be revealed in good time. Relax, enjoy and bask in the sunshine that is my life.
I think I'll take a little afternoon nap, practice for my TV performance and create good art. That's a much as I can expect from myself today. . . . and I'm cool with that.
1 Comments:
Tom,
You have re/discovered the issue with many magicians. Too fast. I have always felt that too fast took the performance out of magic and into juggling. Not that there is anything wrong with juggling...
Slow down, allow the audience to enjoy the performance and to get to know you as a performer. If they walk away, fuck em :-)
7:45 AM
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