But there's nothing to have a conversation with. I love motion, of course, but not when it's used to avoid truth. Taylor has been working with Berklee students for more than a decade. Stage Performance was published last year. I looked around for anyone who talked about what I talk about, but nobody ever does.
Nobody ever tells a group of students that a performer is employed by the audience.
They bought a ticket, they hired you, you're working for them. But selflessness isn't easy when you're under a cone of spotlight. Taylor says artists need to realize that their performances carry a different, and less consequential, significance for audience members than for themselves. It's so funny because myself or any performer is such a remarkably small part of people's lives. Even the night we're playing for them, we're a small part of their lives.