The Performance Lecture Is the Perfect Art Form for the Influencer Age

On stage right, a rack of children’s dance costumes: tulle, sparkles, flounce. The lights went dark. When they shone again, artist Maya Man had taken her position. “I always wanted to be a dancer,” Man said. “Look at me now, doing… this kind of performance.”In mid-May, Man performed StarQuest at the Brooklyn performing arts center Roulette Intermedium, a performance-lecture that grew out of her show “StarPower.” The theater at Roulette w