Have you gone to any major, "serious" performance where something felt like an artistic mistake? I'm not referring to mistakes of kitschiness, or excess, or te

Have you gone to any major, "serious" performance where something felt like an artistic mistake? I'm not referring to mistakes of kitschiness, or excess, or technical incorrectness. If you're in any place where folks are exploring expression (or even technicality), then they will inevitably do something that may seem weird. In those places where culture and expression have peaked and got nowhere to go, where the gestalt has distinctly chosen predictability over possibility, things may feel out of place simply because they're e.g. displays of skill for the sake of displays of skill. Or even more tritely, production for production's sake. This may sound alternately cliché or obvious-after-the-fact, but when there is no counterculture, nothing will be weird, at all. And that is because nothing is being dared or played with.