Symbiotic Relationships

Performers and audience members have a symbiotic relationship. When performers step out of their living rooms and on to the stage, the audience is right there with them, too. Those few moments before the performance starts are ripe with anticipation. What will the performer have to say? How will it be communicated? How will the performance be received? What will the performer learn from the audience? What will the audience learn from the performer? Magic happens when the performer breathes in and the audience breathes back. Performers push through the fear, the insecurity, and the nervousness in hopes of enhancing their own lives and those of the audience. Each trick, each joke, each feeling captures a moment of human emotion to be expressed by the performer and interpreted by the audience. A good performance envelops everyone in the audience, expands their own perimeters, and moves everyone forward, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot, on the journey of life. A good performance reminds us all that we are part of a community.



Danny Ngan shot these pics on Easter Sunday during one of my street shows.