I have the feeling that the night you look at your audience and don't see yourself, and the night the audience looks at you and doesn't see themselves reflected in you, it's all over.

The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.

I don't see people in the audience, I'm in an ultra-focused state when I'm onstage, I only go by sound - I listen to the audience but I don't look at anything in particular. I'm really visualizing the stuff I'm talking about.

:: If you can draw one, but don't, then your audience won't know what you are talking about.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

I like having an audience. I don’t think I ever work when I don’t have an audience, which is one of my great failings.

Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?

Remember, in the tyranny of physical space, an audience too thinly spread is the same as no audience at all.

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience — every reader is a different person.

I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room. I should be at the end of the room facing the audience. . . . You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do.

You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ....

You do not keep the audience’s interest by giving it information, but by withholding information,

Better to find a new audience than to write for the audience.

Translation: Looking back on each element, the absence of the audience this time meant that it was difficult to make that connection [with the crowd], but there are a lot of movements in the choreography that try to speak to the audience, so I think that’s also a key appeal for this program.