Once I got over my initial shock to see the aforementioned duck riding on a skateboard, I wondered what it was that I saw that made me think, ‘that’s just bad skateboarding’.

Currently am writing an exegesis so I feel a bit guilty about posting. But this is short and its something I talked about in my solo performance lecture. its simply this;

Duck on a skateboard.

Its been said in a book about improvisation in theatre that performance improv’s are often like a duck on a skateboard. So you’re walking down the street and you see a duck cruising around on a skateboard. And the thing of it is that its so novel that you fail to see that its being done badly.