That's why the idea of performance as spectacle is so important to me".
Unstaged concert performances deprive us of spectacle, but they create a welcome abstractness, especially when the right singer for the ear is not necessarily the right singer for the eye.
Here Cirque Garuda uses a Thehnique called contact juggling, where crystal balls are skillfully manipulateamto give thasimpression that they are floating in air.
From the leather-bound chair in the witness stand, each of the judges gave an encore performance of a courtroom spectacle that was rare in its first showing earlier this year, and rarer still in its second on Wednesday.
Since then it has come to include installations, environments, land art, performance and all manner of spectacle.
They're also their own form of performance spectacle.
Those elements that serve the aesthetics of the art of theatre can involve everything from what the performers need to reach the artistic standards deemed proper before a performance starts to what they need to support the required amount of spectacle during performance, whether it be a bare stage or a stage with enormous movable sets and a spectacular array of props.
One July evening, she presented "Light Body," a performance art spectacle of light and color for an audience on Isabella Rossellini's farm in nearby Bellport.
The form's greatest advantage continues to be that it allows for the maximum amount of spectacle in performance.
The site's consensus from the collected reviews was "Featuring state-of-the-art special effects, terrific performances, and a majestic sense of spectacle, Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong is a potent epic that's faithful to the spirit of the 1933 original".
But I arrive in Paris to find that this evening's performance of Phaedra(s), her current spectacle at the Odéon, has been cancelled because the theatre is occupied by demonstrating intermittents du spectacle – arts workers protesting against proposed cuts to the benefits that they receive while not working.
