Non-Traditional Performance Quotes

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.

I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

The majority of great work that's being done in the theater is happening Off Broadway, where you can't make a living.

They didn't really encourage my goofy, comedic side at Juilliard.

My taste comes from when I was 12 years old and saw Genesis or Laurie Anderson or some performance artist who had put paint on himself. I've seen a lot of theater, but that's not what woke up my taste to become a director; nontheatrical things were much more theatrical than the theater I was seeing.

I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category.

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.

I love the fact that people don't see the ukulele as a serious instrument. A lot of people see it as more of a toy, and I love that because it just proves that people aren't intimidated by the instrument. They aren't afraid to pick it up.