We have worked together to enact performance-based funding, form public-private partnerships, and massively expand online education.
Then I notice a glimmer of human movement behind the glass: a woman seems to be moving things about, or sweeping up, or enacting a performance.
But at its most basic level, a theatre provides a space for the performers to enact their performance and a space for the audience to experience that enactment.
A front-page article in Arts & Leisure today about the performance artist Marina Abramovic misstates the dates when she will re-enact famous performance pieces at the Guggenheim Museum.
Three days of performances and workshops culminate next Saturday with Performance Recall, in which 60 artists associated with CPP have been asked to retrace, remember, revisit, recreate or re-enact a performance from their past.
In his collaboration with the artist Carter, Erased James Franco (2008), he re-enacted every performance from his career.
Without an audience, in private, wherever the work is shown, Mr. McCarthy confided the other day, he re-enacts his performance by following along with the videotape.
For Mr. Dine's event, "The Smiling Workman," he dressed like a clown and enacted a performance with paint: stroking it on canvas, drinking it (that paint was actually tomato juice) and pouring it over himself.
"I hope I qualify for the Olympics in good shape to re-enact this performance".
"It brought back a lot of good memories and hopefully the lads that are here will be keen to re-enact that performance and the same outcome," he said.
