If you look at the upper right corner of the new design, you'll see a simple, visual explanation of the strongest and worst of your personal portfolio performers.
In "The Wanderer Fantasy" at Purchase, Ms. Tanowitz tried to incorporate each of the performers' personal styles.
Visitors ("interlopers," as Tajima put it) were invited to get up close and personal with the performers through it all.
It's the personal stories the performers tell Zach, the director who will decide who gets to be in the show and who goes home jobless.
It's a vital, personal testimonial to performers and composers who used their art to find their way in an often frightening and unwelcoming world.
Most important, Apple intends to expand its song offerings weekly, in part by giving reluctant performers personal demos by Mr. Jobs, who is something of a rock star himself.
As she began to work more with ideas drawn from her performers' personal lives, soul-baring confession came to dominate the choreography.
Like music, it's open to accusations of selling out precisely because – more often than other artforms – it's subversive, anti-establishment and it invites strong personal identification between performer and audience.
In the words of one New York University acting teacher, an actor trying to fake cry should "particularise the moment or text with something specific and personal to the performer, so that it becomes less about what is demanded of them and more about an inner secret, desire, fear".
But the demand for intimate, personal shows by both performers and audiences will not let it die.
