Recollection Post

I watched the Greenshow last Friday, but for some reason or other, I didn't say anything about it until now.  I guess the journal daemons will strike me down and use my lucky belt for a skipping rope until I get my ideas down.  I'd better hurry, too, because I've seen what they do to their skipping ropes, and I like my belt in one piece.

When I watched the performers do their bits, I noticed a lot of open gestures that exposed them to the audience.  If you want to get technical, they performed a lot in their vertical (wall) plane.  They used many different stances, but for the main part, their legs were slightly apart and their hands on their hips or in the air to their sides.

I guess to say this isn't being completely accurate, since their entire act wasn't cartwheels and side-steps.  To be more specific, the upper half of their body was very vertical-ish while the lower half was actually somewhat sagittal.  When they took a step, it was very deliberately forward.

My say is this style of a stance is what free entertainment is all about, when emotional roller coasters are not part of the act.  The art of entertainment for the sake of entertainment is all about making the audience feel like the actors want to perform for them, hence all the open gestures.  If the change was made that made the performers act more in the horizontal or sagittal planes, it would seem like a wall would have been erected between the people on stage and the people sitting on the grass (the show was free, so no fancy cushioned seats).