"When you know something about the other actor's life that is so parallel to the play, it can't help but inform the performance," Mr. Dold said.
Through simulations of prosthetic vision, researchers can experience first-hand many performance and behavioral aspects of prosthetic vision, and studies conducted on a larger population can inform the performance and behavioral preferences in general and in individual cases.
In the Celebrate Brooklyn! project, "the images will inform the performance," said Ms. Allen, a soulful, post-bop pianist whom Ben Ratliff of The New York Times recently called "one of the more important jazz musicians of the last 25 years" and whose album "Flying Toward the Sound" made several "best of" lists for 2010.
"Tight, narrow, airless spaces that would inform the performances".
A life in the theater cannot inform the performances of an excellent cast, Roberta Wallach and Amy Stiller prominently among them, but the director David Saint, the beneficiary of having staged the play two months ago in its premiere at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, N.J., where he is in artistic charge, was not a director in absentia here.
Now, you know, both of those aesthetic approaches were there to really inform the actors, every choice we made in the film was not one just for an aesthetic trick or surface design or whatever, they were put in place to inform the performances, really.
We live in New York and I had to go down to New Orleans the week after, which was hard, but I think it probably informed the performance.
Similar qualities informed the performance of the Shostakovich, which closed the concert, and for which Mr. Peskanov was joined by Steven Beck, the pianist, and Sumire Kudo, a cellist.
To have that in your mind when playing these people who didn't know any different is interesting and informs the performance.
PA: From new material technology that informs the performance and aesthetics of clothing (think Gore-Tex to Project Jacquard) to the supply chain technologies that shape the way labor is imbricated in fashion, new technology is part of what we wear on a continual basis and thus inherently in conversation with modernity.
You learn so much about how you can sculpt your face, hold your face, you experiment a lot with the makeup artist, it really informs the performance.
