A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue.
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.
The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.
The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.