Blog Transcript: Beth Boone  (Miami 072111)

Experiencing live performance, for example, in the same room with other beating hearts, is something that is impossible to describe. You have to experience it to know what that's like. I think that people, I think that human beings desire communal experiences, and that, when they have the opportunity, when individuals have the opportunity to come together to experience some work of art, that they can leave transformed and they, therefore transform their community, and build a community. You start to feel like, from a geographical perspective, if your neighborhood has interesting things going on in it, you start to feel a part of, and you start to care about, and become more engaged with everything that's happening in that neighborhood, and then I think that kind of grows, and makes you think more about your community at large.