Stage Presence

The ability of a performer to capture and maintain the audience's attention, creating a sense of connection and shared experience through purposeful embodied actions. In accessibility and disability arts contexts, stage presence raises important questions about how performers with significant mobility limitations can engage audiences physically during live events, and how technologies like robotic arms, brain-machine interfaces, and augmented reality can extend the performer's body to create new forms of audience-artist interaction that transcend conventional expectations about movement and physicality on stage.