But when the performers aren't rolling around, performing with clunky marionettes or praying to a mandrake-root oracle, the installations themselves feel a bit dead and empty.
My whole friendship circle was built around performing".
"She certainly has not been around performing in eight years".
We did street shows: we'd go around performing this juggling, unicycling thing.
There are still lots of little scenes, all vibrant in their own way, all based around performing.
Incredulity that they could cook, get around, perform the general tasks of everyday life - let alone raise three children, including twins, while holding down successful professional careers.
As a jam band following the example of the Grateful Dead, Phish got a major-label recording contract but built its career around performing.
Their final sketch, in which two frilly magicians flounce around, performing crap tricks to a bombastic soundtrack, suggests they can't even make basic silliness funny.
It was an extraordinary ballet of work and it took me a while to get my head and body around performing it.
Meanwhile, art and activism organisation Platform has blogged about Mark Rylance's dilemma around performing at the Olympic opening ceremony, given that sponsors include BP and McDonald's.
