Creative Excellence

"Knowing That It's Possible"

All actors, directors and in fact every member of any audience has experienced seeing a performance that is memorable for its power and truthfulness. Such a performance may have gained its potency because of its relevance to our current circumstances or it might be that the performance skills were simply exceptional. Either way all actors' quest being able to create a performance of similar potency to the one which stands so tall in their memory.

Winning or Losing
Everyone wants to be good at what they do. Some athletes take drugs to help achieve their goals. It doesn't work that way for the actor. The actor like the athlete needs to build the skills and have a good performance process. And like the athlete (perhaps more so) any number of circumstances may affect the outcome. For the athlete this may mean the difference between winning and losing. For the actor, other than for personal satisfaction, it can often make very little difference at all. If the performance is believable and the story told the audience wont miss that extra bit of magic, for the job has been done. They will go home satisfied.

Losing and Losing
It is only the actor who quests perfection, that will feel let down. So, what is to be gained by that? Only disappointment. Instead, a more valuable achievement for the actor would be to know that the gold medal performance could be achieved at any moment.

The Greatest
Knowing that creative excellence is possible at any given time is a great performance outcome. In fact imagine a performance in which that actually was the case - a performance where at any moment something exceptional might happen. Even if nothing did eventuate the expectation that such a process would create must provide an exceptional entertainment. A performance process that knows anything is possible and is waiting in anticipation would in fact be a great performance in itself. Think about it. How good would that be!!

June 2004

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