Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Buildings are forms of performances.
The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.
As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It's really an uplifting style of art that combines visuals and music in very dreamlike ways.
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.
Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.