Well.... 2009 is now officially here and its a perfect time for me to re-evaluate my life and career, take stock of what i have achieved and what i want to accomplish.
I am in London at the moment with Ballet Russe. At present I'm dying of a hideous cold, which in fairness the whole company seem to have, so there is lots sniffing and sneezing!
Audiences have been good except for one night... ( After Christmas, Credit Crunch, a Thursday, some of the many reasons for this.)
The Audience on this one night was very bad, almost an embarrassingly small audience. It is a little annoying, and generally you want to have a fuller audience. As usual we were all complaining about it until my friend ,and fellow dancer, Alys turned to us and said something that is so true and brilliant, and is something i feel all dancers ( and in general performers) should try and remember
'Its not the audiences fault that they are so few, but they paid the same amount that the previous full audience did . It would be unfair if we gave them any less!'
Ahhh! My first quote of wisdom!
Its so important to think about this.
It is our job as a performer to give 100% , if its an audience of 10,000 or just 10! We owe it to the audience, and more importantly , to ourselves as artists.
HAPPY NEW YEAR & GOOD LUCK WITH ALL YOU DO AND IN ALL YOU TRY!
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