Sentence examples for engaged in a performance from inspiring English sources

When totally engaged in a performance, they virtually breathe as one.

They discuss what can block an actor from being fully engaged in a performance and how to make deep inner concentration a goal for students who will ultimately be performing before a general audience in a public theater.

Whereas in the theater-exercise case you are engaged in a performance that brings with it the distance that attends artifice, in the step-on-Jesus case there is no distance at all between what you are asked to do and who you are; discovering who you really, and not theatrically, are is both the point and goal.

They are engaging in a performance, a sculpting of an identity online that is defined by the foods that end up on their websites.

She will invite the visitor to "engage in a performance about the shifting states of objects and tangible things" when she presents Contained Measures, an installation in the Tate Modern's new Tanks space.

They had two groups, meditators and non-meditators, engage in a performance task while hooked up to electroencephalography (EEG), a machine that tracks a person's brain activation on a moment-to-moment basis.

After all, voguing is both a fantasy and an act of defiance the dancers know they will probably never end up on the cover of Vogue, but engage in a performance of upward-mobility in the face of systematic injustice, reclaiming feminine beauty from rich white women.

Engaging in a performance can incite questions, experiences and issues that may otherwise be overlooked.

Erving Goffman, in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), analysed social encounters as if each person was engaged in a dramatic performance, and suggested that each such actor was a creation of its audience.

On Friday, Macdonald engaged in a similar performance with another highly respected lawyer and statutory office holder – the solicitor general, Justin Gleeson, who is locked in a very public argument with the attorney general, George Brandis.

Alternately coddled and abused, Nicky is engaged in a perpetual performance for his camera-toting father and his idealizing mother, but neither parent listens to him, or to the other.