Theater, dance, music, spoken word - the act of performing before an audience of one or an audience of 5,000- all are a breathtaking leap of bold courage, honesty, raw storytelling and human yearning put to spoken and written word, vibration of notes and voice, movement - expansive outreach, an unfettered releasing of human expression. The Performing Arts are, even in the best of days, a plaintive cry to the Universe pleading for immortality, for belonging through shared experience, they’re a prayer of gratitude. In the worst of days they are a tender salve in the wounded heart, a well for the raging spirit to scream into. In performing, we supersede all languages to bring audiences with us on a journey to the heights of imagination; we lead them to a place where all things are possible, all things are centered, worthy. Through this act we are peace personified. We place all the world’s active sufferings into suspension for a moment. Through the gesture of an extending arm, a breath taken just before the high C takes flight, the emotions of an actor at play - we wrap audiences from all walks of life into a cocoon of family, understanding, and warm welcome. Together we process silently, personally, the incomprehensible, senseless, self-inflicted wounds humanity makes. We shriek expulsions of laughter. We mourn. We wonder. All in collective unison. The audience becomes the dance, the play, the music- at one with the creators.
