As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.
You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.
I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!
As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot.
Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.
I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.
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