Elijah nailed exactly what it is with Marnie when he described her performance style: "Too stiff and too hopeful".
On a visit to Britain in the late 50s, Alan Lomax discovered that Donegan, as John Szwed puts it, "was copying Lead Belly's songs, along with his performance style and introductory remarks, profiting from both his performances of these songs and his claim to being their composer".
A recent example of SITE's programming stared Linda Mary Montano, who in keeping with her "endurance-performance" style, sang songs by Linda Ronstadt and Raka Mukherjee while propped atop a hydraulic scissor lift for seven hours straight.
Under Hamdani's tutelage, Kidude joined Mohammed Ilyas and the Twinkling Stars as their lead singer, and her career enjoyed a staggering upturn, with international audiences transfixed by her fearless performance style.
But much of this has less to do with Obama's performance style than with how various audiences respond to his complex, hard-to-pigeonhole poly-racial-cultural-geographical identity.
In "The Chaser," Langdon's directorial originality fuses remarkably with his unique performance style: he gives himself long, static, and obsessional closeups of a sort that wouldn't be seen again until the rise of the overtly modernist cinema of the nineteen-sixties.
The veteran company member Hope Boykin was tremendous in "Another Night"; she is a supremely focussed dancer, with a clear, open performance style.
Many music critics writing about the set from Ms. XCX -- born Charlotte Aitchison -- took issue with Aitchison's songwriting and performance style, including a Chicago Tribune writer who called her music "witless".
This leads to great opportunities for collaboration and enables performers to diversify their performance style to blend with other performance types.
Great theatre ought to be about taking risks: Liverpool-based company 20 Stories High risk their credibility, combining subject matter devised for teenage audiences with performance styles that might otherwise make them gag.
The performance style with masks is not tied to naturalism.
