The Audience

Who is the most important actor in any performance? The audience of course! For masks, especially, everything we do we do for the audience. We entertain the audience, and in return, the audience provides a life for the mask. For if an actor puts on a mask in an empty room, he is indeed simply a man wearing a mask. It is the audience, moreover, that provides life to the mask and truly makes a character out of him.

Therefore, we love our audience and want them to have the best time possible.

In order to do this, we maintain constant eye contact with the audience so that we are constantly entertaining and they are constantly giving life to the performers. That means anytime you are walking around stage, you are looking at the audience while you do it. But if you're always looking at the audience how do you know where you're going? Well of course, before you start moving, you look where you're going to go. This serves two functions: 1) It allows the performer to see where they are moving so that they don't fall while they are moving and looking at the audience. 2) It signals to the audience where we're going! (we're nice to the audience, remember?)
So the order is: Look where you go, look at the audience, move there.

The same is true for any action. Say you want to throw a football. Well you have to look at the audience when you do everything. And you have to signal to the audience what you're going to do. So if they football were on the ground you would have to do this:
Look at football, look at audience, pick up football, look where you're going to throw, look at audience, throw football.

This might sound confusing, but when practiced and seamless, it creates an animated picture that is both extremely funny and easy to follow. See how fast you can do it! So go for it!!