Audience

17% to see / to experience 

• To see it, experience, receive with an open heart, respectfully absorb the work
• To experience deep satisfaction, See something I haven’t seen before or in a new light
• To come with an open mind and experience / engage with the piece
• To continue coming to shows, To create completely new visual / conceptual experience

12.8% to think / understand 

• Be made to think, Re-consider, Criticize, Think / differently, Experience deep thoughts
• To “get it”, To appreciate an artist’s vision, To stop and think about its meaning to me
• To understand,, understand the artist message, To expand my understanding of art

12.8% to enjoy 

• To connect with the gift of vision of the performance, To enjoy myself 
• To enjoy storytelling, human experience, and creative ways of making things

10.6% to learn 

• To be as perceptive in the moment as possible, To pay close attention and lose myself in the process
• To be infotained, To connect and learn, To receive enlightenment / dispel ignorance

9.6% to feel / to be moved 

• To feel, feel a connection with the work and support the performer’s vision
• To see something and be moved even if I can’t describe it / describe why

8.5% escape / transported

• To be transported, To go to a different place and see new things
• To flee the Kavanaugh appointment with an hour of intelligent whimsey

7.4% to be entertained

• To be entertained in an unentertaining world, To be infotained

6.3% to be challenged 

• To be challenged, To be provoked, To be disturbed, To squirm 

6.3% to be inspired 

• To be inspired, impressed as an artist, or in awe

3.2% expand / grow 

• To expand, to explore where the line exists in love and relationship
• To find a connection, grab a hold of a thought, impression, feeling, moment and let it help me grow

3.2% to have fun 

3.2% to be disoriented / see weird 

• Disorientation, See some weird stuff, See unique things

3.2% to experience joy 

• To experience joy, laugh, stay awake

3.2% to be present 

• Stay focused on where I’m supposed to. Not looking ahead
• To be present, feel the moment, To not get distracted, retain the parts that moved me

3.2% to support

• To support and embrace creative expression,  To get the word out more

3.2% to be surprised

• To be surprised, To be moved, stimulated, engaged to a rare epiphany

3.2% to connect

• To connect with something I don’t know about
• To connect with the gift of vision of the performance

2.1% to transform 

• To be transformed, To not walk away empty or as I came in, To be changed by what I witnessed.

2.1% no goals / expectations 

• I come in with no expectations, No goals.

1.1% to be passive

• To Not have to participate though, I’m too shy