A voice lesson is not a performance. It is a lab where you conduct fun experiments.
The performer presents ‘the known’ (i.e. the memorized music within yourself, using the habits you’ve practiced) in the context of the ‘unknown’ (the setting, the audience, the building, etc.). You don’t experiment with your technique in a performance, you don’t really try new stuff, but instead you present what you’ve already learned. We present what we know in a new space, in front of new people.
In a voice lesson the student is in the context of familiarity (the ‘known’) and moves into the ‘unknown’ (new...