In discussing a dancers performance and the audiences response the author says, “I clearly remember the embarrassment I felt as an audience member in a discomfiting mismatch of choreographic intentions and audience perception of technique” (189). Does this mean that the messages and story of a dance can get lost in a performance too full of “tricks”? Why, as an audience, are we so used to looking for fun rather than more in depth meanings in dance, and even other art forms? This also brings up the question, what is more important, the artist’s (in this case dancer/choreographer) intentions, or the audiences interpretation?