/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7208323
I can't, because I blocked him ages ago. Im just done with his shit. Its over. The End.

>>7208401

>How do you not lose your spaghetti in front of all those laughing people?
>I can get in front of people, but the moment a chuckle is heard, I'm suddenly mouse quiet.

Excellent question. Getting into the performer headspace is something that takes practice and some deep psychological self evaluation. The key can be summed up as such: They follow your presentation. If they are following you, that makes you the leader, and you can take them wherever you want.

The audience has no idea what you're going to do or say. They have no idea what is going to happen, and ideally, they will never know what is scripted and what is an accident. Its the illusion of professionalism. If you can pretend that everything is going well, then it IS going well.

For example: I did my glass walking act, which is on a triple-layer canvass drop cloth, so I can just fold it and move it off stage. Act went great, wild applause, and it was time for one of the burlesque dancers to go back on. Her act for this portion was a comedy striptease to a song about a drunk, clumsy french hooker. 2/4 of the act in, she stomps barefoot down onto a piece of broken glass that must have gotten caught in the upturned cuff of my pants. It was bad, and she was bleeding.

But the audience didn't know it wasn't part of the act. As she was sitting in the stage chair, she made big, exaggerated movements out of rocking back and fourth in pain to the music, picking out the glass, and using her stocking to bind her foot. She made a big show of having a "lame" foot, and the audience died laughing.

She ended up needing stitches, but the audience never knew, because she pretended to know what she was doing.

(con't)