Andrew Norlen

B.F.A. Musical Theatre '16
Performance is an exchange: a new gift given every night. It is liberating and unique: challenging and provoking our intelligence.

Katie Abraham

Student
Performance is having the courage to put everything you believe into a single moment, and let that moment go.

Adam Bokunewicz

'12 B.F.A Musical Theatre
Performance brings the experiences and life stories of the actor into a connection with each audience member, a connection unreachable by any other form of communication.

Michael Morris, Jr.

Dance Major '16
Performance is a time to make the impossible become possible. That is when the blood, sweat and tears are truly appreciated by the artist and the audience. And in the end, the reward is a standing ovation.

Jeila Irdmusa

BM Vocal Performance, '13
Performance is ecstasy, honesty, beauty, and passion. It is a celebration of life and our world. Performance is love spilling over.

Grace Laminack

BM Viola Performance, 2015
Performance is constant inspiration. Each of us are where we are in life today because of others who inspired us along the way. Our art inspires us to perform. Our performance in turn inspires our belief in others and causes us to be the inspiration for our audience to desire to reach their full potential in becoming better people, better artists, better inspirations, and better performers. Its like a big circle; performance is what inspires us to inspire others.

Makenzie Gomez

BFA Musical Theater, 2016
Performance is a living, breathing being: projecting and reflecting the energy in a room that is established when performers and audience members meet for the first time. No two performances are ever exactly the same for this reason. Performance is life reinvented, recreated... Performance is life celebrated.

Carly Kastel

Musical Theater BFA 2012
Performance wears many different hats. For me, it is leaving your baggage at the door and giving into your work. Connecting to your piece and relaying its message to the audience. It's bringing your whole self to your work and nothing less and taking risks. It's carrying on a tradition of many years, and many more to come.

Joe Longthorne

Student - Musical Theatre '12
Performance is story-telling. You open up a dialogue with the audience- sometimes it will be a wildly funny conversation, other times it will be terribly sad. It's all about giving and receiving, and living in that connection.

Aly Laughlin

BFA Musical Theater, 2012
Art is looking at the world through the eyes of both the silliest child and the wisest elder at the same time. Performance is what happens when art comes to life. It is what makes life bearable and worth living.

Peyton Pugmire

Associate Director of Theater Division
Performance is the act of sharing - in a highly physical way - our gifts, art, passions, talents, and skills with others, hopefully to the very best that we can, after expending so much time, mental and emotional sweat, instinct, body, and spirit in order to understand how we do what we do!

Aaron Larget-Caplan

Guitar Faculty
When the all of the practice, criticisms and even dreams are moved aside so the moment becomes all. When the mission is no longer to learn but to share, to express and to be. When the actions become bigger than us as individuals.

Annie Wild

senior musical theatre major
Performance is storytelling at its finest. It is a privilege and a delight. A reverence for the world we live in.

Nathan Troup

Stage Director/Opera Faculty
Breathing in, breathing out. So much of the "performance" belongs to the audience. What is it we bring? The work, the heart, the thought, the connecting. It's more than we can control, and it's everything we can give.

John Krause

Student
Performance is simply giving and receiving as much truth as you possibly can while making it look effortless.

Diana Searle

Student, BM Clarinet Performance '13
Performance is the ability to share your soul, to not be afraid of being who you are, and to let your dreams come true.

Lauren Langbaum

Sophmore Vocal Performance Major
Performance is a way to share your passion with an audience. It is a way to affect others with something you love to do. Revealing your heart on stage.

Andy Chau

MM in Music Education, 2012
Performance is a showcase of hard-work, preparation, devotion, and passion. Within performance we collaborate with others to create a beautiful presentation. We also become one with the audience and engage them; in turn sharing with them the meaning of performance as a performer.

Riley Brack

Student
To perform is to apply the beautiful skills you've cultivated. It is to reveal the deepest, most sensual, and vulnerable parts of your soul. To perform is to allow the essence of your love, joy, and spirit to shine out of you in a way that is utterly and completely unique to you. To perform is to inivite an audience into your moment, so that they may create their own.

Nathan Scott Hancock

BFA Musical Theater student, Class of 2012
Performance is telling a story, sharing a moment, giving a part of your living self to a listener or viewer. It cannot occur in solitude. It is SHARED action, life, adventure. The joy of performance is that it is definitively communal.

Gabrielle Hughes

hopeful student!
A performance is an outward push of an inside passion. Performing is exposing one's innermost quirks, emotions, and character. Any performance is a well-thought-out plan that, when enacted, follows every possible path except that which had been planned. Memorizing, reciting, and standing is not a performance. Living is a performance.

Michael Figueroa

Sophomore Dance Major
Performance is indefinite. Performance is a fleeting moment. Performance is this moment, right now. Performance is everything and nothing. Performance is.

Ken Baltin

Faculty
Performance: The product of a performer so well-conditioned as to become utterly present, inwardly alive, profoundly inspired, and so personally responsive and decisively engaged as to bring radiance to his material. Such a performer experiences sensations of ease, form, beauty, and wholeness, and thus imbues the performance with qualities that inspire the audience to experience the same.

Morgan Earle

M.M. Vocal Performance
Performance is the transparency of the soul - the humility to display the innermost human expression.

Gail Flatto

Trustee of The Boston Conservatory
To perform is to accomplish and fulfill: Where there's a way, there's a will.

Michael McCrary

Student
Performance isn't what we do. It's who we are. Performing is the ability to truly convey a story and translate that story to an audience. It requires discipline, being open, and the ability to live in the moment. Nothing beats the thrill of taking that first step on to the stage.

Dan Rosales

BFA Musical Theatre, 2013
Performance is a lifetime commitment to sustaining and cultivating one's vitality through art.

Marc Koeck

BFA Musical Theatre 2014
Performance is taking the risk and putting all of yourself on the line every night.

Andre Cerullo

Student
Performance extends beyond the concert hall or theater. It is sharing your talents and enriching the lives of others to give back to the community.

Shayne Kennon

Student, 2012
Performance is the jumpstart your feet send your heart the moment they step from a darkened wing onto lit boards. Performance is silence from 1,000 and music from your lips. Performance is caring about personal props more than your personal property. Performance is the energy of eyes watching, ears listening and hands clapping while your blood pumps onstage. Performance is life; captured, held and given as a gift.

Doug Lockwood

Faculty
performance is the giving and receiving of oneself and always being available to the surprises of the moment. it is really listening. it is being fully present.

Zoe Raphael

Student
Performance is passion. The more you believe in what you're doing and why, the more you can connect with your audience. The more you connect with the audience, the more they'll leave feeling like they've found some kind of catharsis. Performance is living in the beauty of the moment and sharing that moment with the world.

Brian Dillon

BFA Musical Theater student, Class of 2012
Peformance is bringing truth to the imaginary in order for the audience to interpret its greater meaning.

Matthew Grills

BM in Vocal Performance, '10
Performance is the opportunity to share an experience from your heart. To compel an audience with reality. To be vulnerable and yet confident. To show strength through adversity. And to be committed 110%.

Tracy E. Smith

Director of Alumni & Parent Relations
Performance is a declaration of self -- mind, body and soul -- creating a new, integral reality between you and your audience.

Kayley Bishop

Musical Theatre class of 2012
Performance is commitment, connection, capability, creativity, collaboration, and courage.

Ricardo Lewitus MD

Board of Overseers, Piano Scholarship Sponsor
A “great performance” happens when a pediatrician does well: a baby laughs, a mother's distress is eased or a teenager gives up smoking! When a pediatrician does really well, a child confides fears about needles, is persuaded it is going to be alright and says, “Wow! You were right that was nothing.”

Keith Potts

Student MT 2012
Performance is creating a world, inviting the audience into it, and then allowing the audience to take part of it with them when they leave.

SHANNON LEE JONES

Alexander Technique teacher for Dance Department
Performance is all about relationship. Relationship to the material, your fellow performer, environment and audience.

Lissa Smith

was a student at The Boston Conservatory
Performance teleports the artist and the audience member to a different world. To a place where anything is possible. Where boundaries and limits don't exist. Passion at its finest!

SIng Hong Lee

Student, Class of 2016
Performance is an alternative way to communicate with the audience. It is a way for you to express yourself, introduce yourself, and open up yourself for everyone to understand you not only as a performer, but also a person.

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