Looking at the Audience
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Last year it was still the normal state between performances. Unfortunately, it now has a completely different symbolic power :-(
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia
Valencia
Masada was a combined fortress and royal palace, and ruins are scattered all over the place. Above the chamber where Herod was supposed to receive audience seekers. On the wall to the back you see that the walls were plastered and made to look impressive as if they were made of giant blocks. This seems to have been the case all over the place inside and outside alike.
"Masada (מצדה metsada "fortress"[1]) is an ancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel situated on top of an isolated rock plateau, akin to a mesa. It is located on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea 20 km (12 mi) east of Arad.
Herod the Great built palaces for himself on the mountain and fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BCE. According to Josephus, the siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire at the end of the First Jewish–Roman War ended in the mass suicide of 960 people, the Sicarii rebels and their families hiding there.
Masada is one of Israel's most popular tourist attractions"(Wikipedia)
Today he's wearing clothes appropriate for jazz! Flames shoot out the top of the instrument as he plays (you can only see a glimpse in this image) but I was more interested in catching his audience.
During the sunset hour, an audience of rocks peacefully rests while watching the clouds dance across the sky. An unchoreographed display, it is none the less exhilarating. With each passing moment the dance of light takes a different form.
In this brief moment, the light arches from island to island, covering most of the sky. Albeit an enthralling period, the audience remains steadfast, in its stoic repose.
The stage is empty, the seats are full of ghosts — and she stands alone, actor and witness at once.
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Another half hour or so until sunset but the vantage points are filling fast. The rockwall marking the western end of Waikiki Beach is a popular spot.
A modern dilemma: read the text or enjoy the free, live music? Or perhaps this young man in Barcelona was doing both.
Audience interaction is one way of making live performances more interesting, like the Amanda Lee Swingtet performing the works of jazz singer Nat King Cole here. After all, nothing is better than two way communication to keep audiences involved.
. . anticipation.
Hundreds of Buddha statues, and one tall standing Buddha. Wat Phai Wong Rua, Suphanburi province, early one morning. So early, the sun had barely risen.
Taken at the Rolling Stones concert at Du Arena in Abu Dhabi. the lights were focussed on the crowd i captured this from behind the crowd, bottom left the guy holds his beer as if to say "cheers" to the Band.
The courtyard at the Gustor festival at the Spituk Gompa monastery in Leh, Ladakh was jam packed with local people and at the peak of the festivities it would have been hard to shoe-horn in even one more person. The audience had spilled over to the roof-top overlooking the courtyard, and to the windows above the courtyard, where these two monks had found a prime place to watch the festivities.
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Watching and listening to one of many music and dance performances in the Green Lake Park in Kunming, the capital of the Chinese province Yunnan
Everyday life in this wonderful park
The Hall of Private Audience (Diwan-i-Khas), in Agra Red Fort, India, was used for receiving distinguished visitors.
It still is and I'm pround to perpetuate the tradition.