As a performance scholar, I understand “performance” to be a way of making meaning, a path of exploration into knowing. Training should begin at home from the earliest ages through exposure and engagement with art as a way of making meaning of the world. So for me, definitely performance as experience, later performance as skill came before performance as something to study and teach. I began studying performance because I got so much out of it, I wanted to understand it better. It’s taken me time to learn to trust my instincts and go for new experiences, even when no one else is.

Source: Daily Nation March 09, 2017 14:49 UTC