Strangely enough I've shared your reaction to dance pieces in the past - I often feel in the position of voyeur rather than audience. It might have something to do with the fact that it is a wordless form - dialogue in plays tends to emphasise the fact that these are actors, performing a script. Painting, also worldless, can be equally intimate but lacks the artist's presence. Dance, having performers essentially demonstrating emotion and physical interaction with only the slight modesty shield of metaphor, sometimes seems too real to me.
Interesting, because in my brief experience of a lap-dancing bar, the only element of voyeurism I felt was in covertly watching the customers, which I found a lot more interesting than what was hapening on stage.
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Date: 2006-06-02 08:02 am (UTC)Interesting, because in my brief experience of a lap-dancing bar, the only element of voyeurism I felt was in covertly watching the customers, which I found a lot more interesting than what was hapening on stage.