Living Life As Performance Art - Dar Dixon

In this Film Courage video interview, Actor Dar Dixon on Living Life As Performance Art.
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[@camronchlarson3767]

I could listen to him speak for hours. He's got such a warm, calming energy

[@filmcourage]

Great to see you connect with Dar. On this day we spent hours with him. He is one of a kind. Told us such fascinating stories on and off camera.

[@ajtaylor8750]

Hearing Dar speak about feminine energy as it pertains to performance art was a revelation because as a man you're almost made to not be expressive in any form. Anytime you're with your male friends and you try to open up about your feelings, they quickly switch to another topic, but with women they love talking about their feelings which is why they love it when we open up to them. With performance art, expressing yourself is 100% necessary because it's what the art form is all about.

[@JonathanEBoyd]

Well Said

[@johnreedy9098]

regardless of gender, I think every person ought to strike a balance between resisting and yielding to feelings. lots of people think being strong means sheerly brute-force resisting your way through life, which is why they become repressed and messed up.

[@aoxomoxoanyc]

"Life as Performance Art" was THE central tenet of Beat and Hippy culture, all of which has been fully marginalized & scrubbed (by design) from our daily corporate-generated popmedia acid-bath. Dar's recent embrace of this idea seem genuine- it's rare for an establishment actor to wander willingly off the prescribed LA path, but the riches on the roadside can be life-enhancing.

[@stonevillage2835]

Stillness, Silence, and Listening 💎💎💎

[@aperfecttool462]

Good life advice.

[@arkoobi]

I feel like I'm there listening. What a great interview! As an actor myself, and even as a human being, I got so much insight from Dar's stories!

[@filmcourage]

What did you like about this video?

[@videolad3057]

The man's glorious mane. The man's glorious outlook. The world needs a whole load more people who are on their own track, as opposed to the one we're CONSTANTLY told we should be on.

[@stonevillage2835]

On his father in-law's tombstone was "I Tried"...powerful stuff! Even when he expressed that he's just trying to do his best, not necessarily fill his shoes. The "nah man, you ain't white" part was hilarious too 😂. I love seeing how people break down barriers.👍

[@lonjohnson5161]

This was a tough one for me. He spoke of many things that I lack context for. I'm not saying that I can't relate, but I don't know who the unnamed people are that he is indirectly referring to. What I did relate to was growing hair. My last haircut was nearly three years ago. I have a host of reasons why I did it, but the one that I think most people watching this channel would care about is it is a test. Seeing which relatives freak out over my hair gives me a hint as to who will freak out over my being a scriptwriter. It might not be a one-to-one correlation, but someone who can't accept a simple change that can be "fixed" at a Great Clips, probably can't accept a life altering one. One day I will sell a script that will be produced, at which point everyone will know, but until that day, people who can't deal with a few inches of hair won't be part of this journey.

[@filmcourage]

Great comment! Those are probably our two favorite parts of the video as well.

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Fascinating comment Lon. What you wrote about your hair could probably be used in a story somewhere.

[@JonathanEBoyd]

just the Honesty and perspective

[@filmcourage]

Thanks for watching Jonathan!

[@dreaminglifepodcast]

What didn't I like about this video!

[@filmcourage]

We'll take it.

[@dramaskrybe]

just don’t get Tekashi 69ed. Know the ledge.

[@SlugSage]

Who is this guy?

[@jonathant4201]

6:55 So Ryan Gosling in Only God Forgives is genius then... ;)

[@panthrrholdings4731]

Stillness

[@bernadettegarden6943]

I think you have to be a keen observer of real people and then write them into your script

[@NiinaSKlove]

🤓Women are nurturing by nature. Men are not. But there’s always exceptions. Men can still care, obviously, but it’s in our biology to be nurturing as women. Our brain is wired differently. - The cool thing is how we can use that in our professional life as actors, directors, writers and so on. The difference between men and women is so interesting, the different dynamics, the different outlooks on life... so fascinating! 😊

[@Tubingonline1]

He is pretentious, as he said.

[@SpookyMingo]

you don't say the word "right?" after every sentence if you're not pretentious-I completely agree, I can't believe you're the only one that commented this