The real payoff from good coaching lies among the middle 60% — your core performers.
Guided by Garth Edwin Sunderland, the ensemble's artistic director, Lost Dog has five core performers, with guests added on occasion.
As the largest cadre, core performers typically represent the greatest opportunity, but they're often ignored by incentive plans.
With only four core performers — Anne Gridley and Robert Johanson are standouts — Copper and Liska's sixty-five-minute piece is a paean to, among other things, the pleasure of watching performers show off, while honoring the spirit of the guy who gave the troupe its name: that master of the ridiculous, Franz Kafka.
The company's nine core performers tour 200 schools a year, as they have for more than a decade, said Lindsey Nelson, managing director of the Music Center education division, which includes Aman among its stable of outreach performers.
Hard-core performers are naturalists who make disappointing albums, but onstage become nearly transparent: their physical bodies become subordinate to the music inside their heads.
No important American theater ensemble has survived for even close to 25 years with the same core of performers.
In the final minutes of the two-and-a-half-hour service, six of the core Muppet performers = Dave Goelz, Frank Oz, Kevin Clash, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, and Richard Hunt — sang, in their characters' voices, a medley of Jim Henson's favorite songs, eventually ending with a performance of "Just One Person" that began with Richard Hunt singing alone, as Scooter.
Gayle and Bravo are among a small core of proven performers.
Its mix of less frequently heard and classic operas, musicals and revues has drawn a devoted audience and a core of loyal performers.
Ludlam relied on a core group of performers to inspire him, including the phenomenal Black-Eyed Susan, Lola Pashalinski, and Ludlam's hilarious partner, Everett Quinton, who helps keep Ludlam's memory alive.
