The Why, What, and When of Movement
The Why
Why move when you’re onstage? I’m sort of philosophical. I want to understand the “why” before the “what” and “when.” And the “why” helps me apply concepts to what it is I want to do.
The why of moving onstage is that your songs don’t sound the same, and so they shouldn’t look the same!
To an audience, if the songs look the same, and 55% of what you’re communicating is what they see, then the songs sound the same. And you start to lose your audience. No one wants to lose…they want to take their audience on a journey – with a beginning, a middle, and an ending.
We as artists know the content of our songs – what we want to accomplish. We need to communicate that to the audience. By changing visually what we do onstage (I call that “changing pressure on the audience”), it keeps them captured and engaged with what we’re dong onstage. … Read More, Watch, Comment – Backstage Pass Required
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