Largest audience you've performed in front of?

[cornutt]

Just out of curiousity: For everyone here who has done any kind of public performance, what is the largest audience you've performed for? And was it dance related or something else? I'm attaching a poll too.

[ThisIsNotMe]

Well, depends what you're talking about. In choirs, I've performed for...actually, I'm not sure. It was the opening ceremony for the 2000 olympic. Doesn't really count though, given there were a few hundred of us. On piano, 12 000. Speaking, 1000. Musical theatre, 1000. Acting, a few hundred. Dancing, not very many. Three-four hundred at most.

[Chiron]

Dancing and speaking it has only been in the hundreds. When I was in college marching band it was ~112k, but there were 192 of us.

[Twilight_Elena]

Big Christmas party at my old franchise studio. Might have been 150-200 peeps there. Felt the same as with 50. I think it was more the place rather than the number of people that made a difference.

[Terpsichorean Clod]

Is this the number of people at the beginning or at the end of the performance?

[Laura]

I danced in a show at a theater that had 550 seats and was sold out. I did a foxtrot number with one of my old teachers.

[danceronice]

Between plays and orchestra and dance and horse shows and everything...I really don't know.

[etp777]

Marching band would be my top too, several thousand (10? 20? no clue) at Columbus day parade in Chicago. Few hundred in musical theatre, maybe 200 at a comp, and who knows how many actually watched me. :D

[kayak]

The biggest group I have danced for was a convention at Vail. The convention was non-dance related. So we did a demo and it was kind of fun.

[LolaEden]

when i was 14 i performed in Her Majesty's theatre in haymarket (london) and then a year later i performed in The Royal Albert Hall also (london) both times there was at least 2000 people in the albert hall there was more though as it's a very big theatre

[pascal]

1600 people, Theatre Mogador, Paris.
But I was not alone on the stage, we were maybe 18 couples.

[davedove]

I sang at the talent show on a couple of different cruises. I know there was over 500 people, maybe 1000 at one of them.

[Standarddancer]

does dance comp counts or only shows?

[NielsenE]

What does televised count as?

(Extra in the Disney Christmas/DWTS parade this year... the live audience was several hundred I think... but I would guess many more watched on TV :) )

[thespina13]

I danced at two salsa congresses where there were more than 600 people in the audience those nights, but I wish I could change my vote, because I remember now singing the national anthem with my choir in a packed stadium. There were way over 1000 there.

[Katarzyna]

The PBS special we performed for had about 1000 seats filled in the theatre during the live taping.. was... exciting...

[Movement]

Homecoming, and it was packed as usual. Hundreds of people waiting for me to mess up =P

[chachachacat]

Dancing
Live - several hundreds. On TV - millions, I guess.

Singing
About 200

[Standarddancer]

In Prague city theatre, we did so-called 5 dance show, not sure how many seats there, maybe 1000-2000, need to ask my ex-partner...nice venue, audience enthusiastic but most of them not ballroom dancers or someone understands ballroom dancing...good experience for us, just bad they strictly prohibit photography or videography...