After eight years of loyal service to a consummate, intuitive political performer, Mr. Gore left no doubt from the start tonight that he was determined to present himself without Mr. Clinton's shadow darkening his center stage.
By relegating to second place a young performer whose intuitive brilliance and originality speak for themselves, the judges missed the opportunity to defuse that criticism.
He's a physical performer and very intuitive in the way that he interprets roles, and for me those qualities work brilliantly in Shakespeare.
But he also says he's a "primitive," a "Grandma Moses of the intellect," and calls himself a literary nightclub performer: "lower class, intuitive, moody, and anxious to hold the attention of a potentially hostile audience and quick (like a comic or a jazz musician) to change the subject or mood".
The performers have an intuitive rapport with the crowd, landing jokes in flurries and looking guilty when they know they're pushing their luck.
"Kate's interest in the choreographic potential of fat bodies as well as her intuitive approach to bringing out performers' inerrant movement is, I believe, the only way a work on this subject could be achieved with authenticity and respect.
Christian Marclay's "Video Quartet" (2002) is the exception, because the artist's years as a visual artist, musician and performer have given him a rare, intuitive grasp of how sounds and images fit together.
In a fusion of sensibilities, the composer's complicated thoughts become the singer's, so that the performer's best possible self — a more intuitive, smarter self (Mr. Sondheim doesn't do stupid) — comes to the fore.
He spoke not of improvisation but of "intuitive music," the idea being that his words would guide the performers to a metaphysical connection with music beyond themselves.
