Obviously, to do it properly, you should use a chance procedure to determine what performances you watch and hear together and in what order - and I know you'll all have your I Chings handy.
Is it people doing a job or is it a performance, which you watch through a window?
If you missed Jo Confino's interview with Hugh Montgomery, director of the UCL institute for human health and performance you can watch it here.
But "Not What Happened" itself is so short on specifics that the performance evaporates as you watch it.
As with those Tour wins, there was the odd jarring note, enough to remind you that the performance you were watching might not be what it was made out to be.
You may know the lines, but you're still mimicking a performance you've watched someone else give rather than creating the character yourself.
And I'm confident it will be for you as well when you watch the performance.
When you watch a performance like Denzel Washington's in Robert Zemeckis's "Flight" (opening Nov. 2), you want to get under the hood of it somehow, to understand what this remarkable thing is made of and what keeps it, improbably, aloft for two perilous hours.
Whenever you watch a performance of "Fancy Free," you are hearing a score by Leonard Bernstein and seeing a set by Oliver Smith, both as essential to the overall effect of the dance as is the dancing itself -- and both tailored to Robbins's precise specifications.
When you watch a performance you think, it's just not a team of mine out there.
