Sentence examples for role of performer from inspiring English sources

For her the role of performer didn't involve distancing herself from the perceived audience, or game-playing.

This is when I take on the role of performer and craftsman, helping the idea come to fruition by providing whatever skills are needed for the piece.

Typically it takes stepping from behind the mixing desk into the role of performer to bring a producer into the limelight.

John Adams, in his forthcoming memoir, "Hallelujah Junction," compares Mr. Reed to one of Beethoven's benefactors, calling him Mr. Marshall's "personal Count Razumovsky, functioning in the role of performer, patron and funder for the work's recording".

By assuming the role of performer, Lee is taking on the kamikaze-like vulnerability that comes with making your body the central text, thus writing another chapter in her vital and necessary work.

Although the authors don't ignore the role of performers in the history of 20th-century dance, for me there is an overemphasis on the choreographer.

"In the gallery, the placement of the monitors in the space is such that, in order to watch the work, viewers are forced into a series of physically awkward and bizarre positions, in a sense taking on the role of performers themselves".

This spiky-haired self-described "love child of Dean Martin and Judy Garland" is a natural extrovert whose combined roles of performer, bandleader and M.C. make her a gregarious cheerleader for the brassy '50s and '60s Las Vegas lounge music she adores.

Like Mr. Doyle's "Sweeney Todd," this production finds new clarity of feeling in Sondheim by melding the roles of performers and musicians (2 20).

Related to the question of the role of the performer is the question of what the performer's use of her own body has to do with the resulting performance and also to the "work", if there is one, of art.

So what's the role of a performer in all this – to provide escapism from the horrors of daily life?