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What Performance Means

Posted by deepakmorris at 01:10 PM on August 13, 2008

I came across this very excited post by Tom Peters on a Bruce Springsteen concert he attended. He put in a nutshell what every true performer knows - it's all in the energy.

A performer has to deliver energy to the audience in order to get energy back. Bruce does it better than most.

Read Tom's exuberant accolade to Bruce Springsteen.

Then decide if you really, really have the kind of energy Tom is talking about. Remember, Bruce is 58! It takes passion and dedication to have that kind of energy.

THEN think about becoming an actor.

Deepak

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Reply Elda Bonora

04:54 AM on July 18, 2009

At first I thought of totally agreeing and of course I do to a very great extent. But pondering just a moment a deeper truth heard its voice. I believe it is a combination ... also considering your other comments concerning public speaking etc. that rather, it may very well be a question of PRESENCE ...
We continually 'feel' the energy of people around us, to the negative or positive. This we all too well know ... talking to fast, energy of uncertainty for eg. or even worse things.
However, if we are PRESENT to who we are and what we do, be it singing like Bruce or acting like you write about in your comment about that you were not acting but were really 'there' is a question of presence. Of being ONE with what is being carried out. And from this we spread an enormous positive energy, positive in the sense that we spread confidence, certainty, belief, a 'real'-ness .... passion ... of where we are in the moment.
Writing these words, three concepts come to mind...
simplicity - genuiness - presense