For Christmas, I want to share this little passage from The Six Questions by Daniel Nagrin. This short paragraph brings to light one of the many things that I love about performing. I hope you enjoy! Have a warm, safe, and happy Holiday!
“A peach is a peach if it has a pit. One doesn’t see the pit unless one digs into the peach. The specific image for the performing artist is rarely known or seen as such by the audience. It may be sensed or felt, and when a performance is truly successful, the audience supplies a pit-a specific image- out of its own life and imagination. It is then that what we all strive for is happening. The audience is involved and the dancer, for whom the specific image is as real as the pit in the peach, informs all that she he does with strength and conviction. Thus the act of a dance performance becomes a mutual act of creation by artist and audience.”
The Six Questions by Daniel Nagrin
Into XIV
“A peach is a peach if it has a pit. One doesn’t see the pit unless one digs into the peach. The specific image for the performing artist is rarely known or seen as such by the audience. It may be sensed or felt, and when a performance is truly successful, the audience supplies a pit-a specific image- out of its own life and imagination. It is then that what we all strive for is happening. The audience is involved and the dancer, for whom the specific image is as real as the pit in the peach, informs all that she he does with strength and conviction. Thus the act of a dance performance becomes a mutual act of creation by artist and audience.”
The Six Questions by Daniel Nagrin
Into XIV
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