What constitutes a good performance?-its not finished btw i dnt think

What constitutes a worthwhile performance?

To think of what constitutes a worthwhile performance, I must first look at performance as a whole. Wikipedia states that in ‘performing arts, people behave in a particular way for another group of people (the audience.)’ It also goes on to list various types of performing genres. Plays, films, ballet, concerts, magician’s shows, performance art and the circus are merely some that are listed. I have to also think of how far performance has gone in the space of our culture. Performance now moves into ideas of non-audience actions, for instance, invisible theatre, where the audience have no idea that they are infact, the audience.
This idea can be seen in YouTube, one of the most popular websites viewed on the web, where people are recorded and posted online, sometimes without their knowledge. My friend recently went out to milsom street and chalked hop scotch on the ground, he then sat, filmed and watched as people passed the chalk without notice, or jumped along, when I watched this it showed me how people seemed to be revisiting their childhoods as they just played along with the chalk game scralled on the floor. There is also an idea of how we live in a performative society, which is dicatated by its culture. Society is based upon the government, the government is run by politicians and the people asking for what they want, in a democracy that is. So why is it that there is so much propaganda needed for the politicians to survive? The Daily Mail for instance, a newspaper quite clearly controlled by the government, makes fun of politicians in comic strips and even articles. Do we need this performance to keep thinking that the government and its people have free speech?
A performance to keep the peace as it were, didn’t Hitler use performance to do this in Germany though? Propaganda went so far as theatre, film, etc. But we did this also with Mrs. Miniver in World War Two, to gain backing for troops fighting for England. Performance moved from simply seeming to act in a certain way, to actual film, actual moves into Hollywood.
Performance nowadays seems to have changed into something that has less definition. This relates to the way the internet has taken away many copyrights; it has taken away what we think of as performance. The audience do not know they are the audience and the performers sometimes do not even know they’re performers. However, this raises new questions, are you the audience when listing to buskers when on your way through town centre? Are you a performer when your friend records you on their phone when you are simply on a night out? When does real life blurr into performative reality? Personal views must be taken into account when thinking of performance aswell when we start to look at a worthwhile performance.
When trying to asses what is a worthwhile performance you have to think in your own ideals of what you like in a performance. For instance, I love films, I am a very avid cinema go-er and love it. I also love theatre, however, I am not a fan of extreme theatre, I find classical to be the best, most worthwhile theatre for me. My friends disagree and think that a worthwhile performance can be anything that anyone has bothered to listen to. I doubt that me watching a YouTube video of a young man singing something awful, is the same as watching Shakespeare at the Globe.
However, I also believe that a worthwhile performance should be defined as anything that is justified and has a point to be made. I see why people would watch certain things or experience performance in different ways, I just have a hard time myself in understanding why they see this as a worthwhile use of their time.