As a critical spectator, I have come to view professional performance through a lens that allows me to ask questions that provide new understanding and new appreciation of the arts and performance. While an opinion such as "a good performance" or "a bad performance" was all I could glean from watching a professional artistic performance, I have now become aware of the different purposes (other than entertaining the audience) of artistic and creative expression. can serve.One of the most important aspects of performance is the audience, wrote Aristotle and his teacher Plato on the theory and practice of theater. This theory sought to address the “function of the arts in character formation.” And while performances and engagement have changed over time, the function of the spectator, or audience, remains just as vital. Overall, many forms of art and culture arise naturally as aspects of everyday human activity. When I pursue artistic and creative expression, whether through performance or other means, I seek quality, leisure, and originality. Artistic performance, in all its forms, calls for a creative strategy...