#stage diving

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Daron Stage Diving Song: Deer Dance Festival: Rock Am Ring Date: May 19th 2002 Where: Nürburg, Germany

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Stage diving & crowd surfing, an emotional meaning

Iggy Pop and Peter Gabriel are the first musicians who practiced Stage Diving. Initially seen as an extreme gesture it soon became common in some of the most famous rock performances. Exactly…rock performances…

Such gestures represent an incitement to crowd participation and some musicians find that it can create the ideal climate for the show.

Those who go on stage often believe they are adored and invincible, but sometimes these gestures are implemented to combat stage anxiety, stage phobia or at least stage fear that seems to affect even the most hardened performers.

Diving from the stage, throwing yourself into the audience, surfing the crowd, there is nothing wrong with remembering that special energy that you breathe when you find yourself singing and dancing with all your being in the midst of dozens, hundreds or thousands of people gathered in the same place to pay homage to an artist, a band and their songs.Talking about the importance of preserving the memory of a an event ,to remember how beautiful, exhilarating and exciting it is to go to a concert, and maybe - why not? – precisely at one of those concerts where the singer suddenly decides to throw her/himself on the heads of the audience to be carried around the venue in a cathartic ritual aimed at uniting everyone with everyone. And it's a hug, a wave of mutual trust, something for which many have given their souls. A rock star will always find a way to insert her/himself into the audience...Yet there is something that goes beyond the sense of danger. «It's the adrenaline, I can’t help my self.» her/ his inner voice seems to  say.

This action is the closest to flying, because it gives  the freedom to delegate every type of motor function, fear and responsibility: you throw yourself and see what happens It is also a question of trust, that trust that in everyday life we ​​are increasingly afraid to give.

There is no fear, and once in the audience the performer doesn't notice anything: if they grope me, if they pull me, if they hold me... zero. At that moment performer is somewhere else, in another world.

after all, if they offer themselves on the altar...

What moments... The glance at the front rows, the dive, the people carrying the singer around the venue holding her/him up in the air: it's something incomparable, you feel important.

It all depends on the empathy creating with the public. During some concerts, no matter how hard the performer tries, the spark doesn't light up, so stage diving doesn't do . Other times the visceral exchange becomes almost uncontrollable and then the rockstar launches her/himself without hesitation.

We see many international music stars presenting themselves with a "winning" image. Strong, confident, determined to chase their dreams and determined to pursue success in what they have set themselves. The message they want to convey to their audience is also based on an idea of ​​sharing through which the listener feels they can make that way of thinking their own and use it to also face their daily challenges and difficulties with more determination.

Rock star collects emotions, a rock star does it for her/his ego, an exhibitionist narcissistic ego…

Few people know what it means to be at the center of the gaze of thousands of people who cheer her/him. People who aren't there for what a rock star does: they're there for her/him, her/his essence. And they don't judge, they don't applaud, they don't even cheer: they simply adore her/him, whatever she/he says, whatever she/he does.

The acclamation of the crowd generates delirium of omnipotence. Everyone tends to erect a "wall" to protect themselves from the evil that is in the world: but those who find themselves in a position to be praised tend to extend its dimensions infinitely, pouring their obsessions from the stage into the streets, in an attempt to erase any " otherness". A delirium that does not elevate the human being who is the object of such veneration: on the contrary, it lowers her/ him to the level of the "spectators".

Celebrities consider themself superior to anyone else, but at the same time constantly seek confirmation of their own abilities. As a consequence of this condition, a rock star adopts exhibitionist behaviors, which serve to combat the loss of sense of reality that a famous life can cause . At least, an actor who wants to be a rock star is endowed with the personality of an accomplished narcissist.

Celebrity’s body  is offered to  audience to be supported, loved, adored in an emotional exchange which sees the audience implement a parasocial behavior of unity with the  idol and the rock star confirms that she/he  is loved by whole world.

Will it be true?

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