
People listed a variety of goals as audience members: 17% attended to see / to experience; 12.8% to think / understand or to enjoy; 10.6% to learn, 9.6% to feel / be moved; 8.5% to escape / be transported; 7.4% to be entertained; 6.3% to be challenged or to be inspired; 3.2% to expand / grow, to have fun, to be disoriented / see weird, to experience joy, to be present, to support, to be surprised or to connect; 2.1% to transform, or come with no goals / expectations; 1.1% to be passive, or to appreciate
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