Some essentials of street theatre are the production of a sense of wonder, general entertainment, a sense of engagement , spontaneity, and the backend requires inbuilt financial self sufficiency.
I love how he touches people, he unleashes their own unguarded bliss. It's a pure child reminiscent happiness that's nice to be reminded of. I think it touches people because it validates them at their core.
The internet is in my opinion among other things the worlds largest boulevard, it's full of ambling pedestrians.
The same dynamics that are used in street theatre, to create an audience, perform, entertain and earn appreciative recompense can, with minor tweeks, apply.
Given it's an entirely new form there are many angles and attempts being made.
The most initially successful were an echo of salon culture and I think it's evolving.
The salon was an Italian invention of the 16th century, which flourished in France throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
Salons in the tradition of the French literary and philosophical movements of the 17th and 18th centuries were carried on until as recently as the 1920s in urban settings.
These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate"
It is from this that we get the branch that includes the concept of a 'raconteur' and the internet has provided varying examples of this also. Led by stand up comics who are raconteurs by definition.
A notable reversal was Bo Burnham who started online as a mere stepping stone to the larger gestalt. [well maybe not but I just really like the word 'gestalt'.]
This boulevard's bursting with raconteurs, shiny happy ones who drown your natural defences via quick edits and put you in a fugue, historians, gardening enthusiasts, I'm not going to list them, I'm not paid by the word, [I'm paid by the state as it stands]
What separates, what filters out the noise to the discerning is not the concept or front brained definition but the 'feeling' of authenticity.
In a world where most people never fully satisfy themselves with one true purpose the folly of singular passion can be quite arresting, passion's hard, requiring self belief and sacrifice and commitment and a singular bullheaded application.
It's hard to counterfeit, authenticity touches us, on some level, we make ourselves vulnerable in recognising it, being open to others enthusiasm and wanting to part of their world requires trust...unless they just cut through all that and hook us emotionally.
I'm a sucker for authenticity
This was back in may, he's mellowed out a bit since but not by much.🙂
more later...concerning what can't be reproduced online, Live spectacle.......
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