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The show is a collaboration with a U.K.-based
performance
company called Lone Twin.
So, the new festival, it asks the audience to play an essential role in shaping the
performance.
Companies like De La Guarda, which I produce, and Punchdrunk create these completely immersive experiences that put the audience at the center of the action, but the German
performance
company Rimini Protokoll takes this all to a whole new level.
They understand that theater and
performance
can happen anywhere.
McQueen had worked throughout his career with a small team of designers and managers who were very protective of his legacy, but Andrew went to London and worked with them over the summer and won their confidence, and that of the designers who created his amazing fashion shows, which were works of
performance
art in their own right, and we proceeded to do something at the museum, I think, we've never done before.
And Mira Nair was a young girl with thousands of other people watching this performance, but she was ready.
Now also being engineering scientists, we were able to quantify the
performance
benefits of the Leveraged Freedom Chair, so here are some shots of our trial in Guatemala where we tested the LFC on village terrain, and tested people's biomechanical outputs, their oxygen consumption, how fast they go, how much power they're putting out, both in their regular wheelchairs and using the LFC, and we found that the LFC is about 80 percent faster going on these terrains than a normal wheelchair.
That's where you can take a guy like me, an academic, but analyze and test and create a new technology and quantitatively determine how much better the
performance
is.
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a
performance
artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
See, I was also a child actor, which doubled up the layers of the
performance
of my identity, because no one knew that I was actually a girl really playing a boy.
This chart shows you the
performance
of countries.
You can also see that there is a gap of almost three and a half school years between 15-year-olds in Shanghai and 15-year-olds in Chile, and the gap grows to seven school years when you include the countries with really poor
performance.
We all want to be there, in the upper right quadrant, where
performance
is strong and learning opportunities are equally distributed.
Nobody, and no country, can afford to be there, where
performance
is poor and there are large social disparities.
And then we can debate, you know, is it better to be there, where
performance
is strong at the price of large disparities?
Spending per student only explains about, well, less than 20 percent of the
performance
variation among countries, and Luxembourg, for example, the most expensive system, doesn't do particularly well.
This is how the world looked then in terms of PISA
performance.
Germany, my own country, in the year 2000, featured in the lower quadrant, below average performance, large social disparities.
A major overhaul of Poland's education helped to dramatically reduce between variability among schools, turn around many of the lowest-performing schools, and raise
performance
by over half a school year.
And all that raises, of course, the question: What can we learn from those countries in the green quadrant who have achieved high levels of equity, high levels of performance, and raised outcomes?
High-performing systems are very clear what good
performance
is.
And the most impressive outcomes of world-class systems is that they achieve high
performance
across the entire system.
You've seen Finland doing so well on PISA, but what makes Finland so impressive is that only five percent of the
performance
variation amongst students lies between schools.
So what we need is something that doesn't necessarily have to have the
performance
of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department even without the Internet, or the hospitals have to order fuel oil.
And the
performance
of these things has gotten so good that if you think about vehicles a little bit differently, you can really change things.
The bad news is that ignoring the
performance
of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their eyes.
So there's a certain
performance
level that the computer would need to get to.
So I started to consider what I should do, and I thought, I wanted to make my
performance
better, and to show onstage how spectacular the yo-yo could be to change the public's image of the yo-yo.
I started to learn classic ballet, jazz dance, acrobatics and other things to make my
performance
better.
I won the World YoYo Contest again in the artistic
performance
division.
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