Do the Dardennes have a secret technique for coaxing sublimely unforced, invisible performances from actors -- some of whom have never acted before?
A kouji performance features an invisible performer's virtuosic use of his/her own voice to animate a wide range of animal, human and environmental sounds that sometimes develop into narratives.
Perhaps feeling that there's no point in competing with a royal tornado, the rest of the cast turns in nigh-invisible performances that lean toward somnolence or stiffness.
The forced-choice fame-judgment task on the primes confirmed that our masking method rendered the primes largely invisible, as performance was close to chance (mean percentage correct = 52.3% (SD = 5.5), mean d′ = 0.16 (SD = 0.25)).
It's crucial because, as Sarah Whatley of Coventry University pointed out, drawing on research done by Jane Pritchard at the V&A, there is a long history of disabled performers but they often remain invisible within our performance culture, and frequently nameless too: identified only by terms such as "one-handed dancer".
I take issue with how Michael Winerip's column "On Schools' Performance, Invisible Line Between 'A' and 'F' " (On Education, April 30) represents the methodology of New York City's progress reports and characterizes how they are used in decisions about changes in school leadership and structure.
TO AN observer watching a Toyota Prius drive by, the car's hybrid propulsion system is invisible, but its improved performance shows up clearly in its fuel-consumption figures.
"Invisible Wings," an outdoor performance created at the Pillow by Joanna Haigood in 1998 and reprised Aug. 21-22 and Aug. 24-25, vividly re-creates the history of slaves making a run for freedom in the nineteenth century.
At the end of the first session, following the invisible condition, two objective performance tasks were administered to behaviorally validate that the masking procedure was effective in suppressing the scenes from awareness.
