We want to encourage the audience not to relax and be passive.

His friends held up two belts, encouraging the audience.

She encouraged the audience to take negativity and turn it into something positive.

Eventually making her way to the extended lip in front of the stage and throwing down, she encouraged the audience to put their hands together.

After that, she encouraged the audience to applaud by clapping her hands.

The entire cast encourages the audience: "Fear not to die, good people all.

And he encouraged the audience to applaud between movements (but not during them, as was also the practice of the time).

The short silence encourages the audience to take notice and concentrate.

After singing the song through twice he then encouraged the audience to join in.

He showed how music could flow through a scene and not be broken up into short numbers which encouraged the audience to applaud each time.