I love making up Ayu performances in my head! I think the budget has mostly gone for my ideas now though
Just one or two innovative, stand out performances in a tour really elevate the whole thing. And it can be relatively simple even but should enhance the music and emotion. I think A Song for XX in DT01 where the catwalk moves out into the audience is great. Or just the outfit for A Museum really makes it stand out.
I would love Ayu do to a performance of dolls in a long floaty dress like M AT07 style on a swing but on a track that goes around the arena but stays still until the instrumental bridge ends, then whoosh around the arena for the final choruses as a long train unfolds from under the dress (and probably held up along the track with wires so it trails nicely)
I've also thought Because of You would be awesome if the catwalk had smallish stairs that raised one at a time as Ayu went up during the guitar bridge and she ends on the spinning platform. Then there would be a stage margin on the catwalk around the stairs where the dancers would go. The sides of the stairs would have screens built into them with dancing silhouettes that match the dancers.
I think Fly High would work well on the crane if she still wanted to use the crane. Or is the Love? performed on the side stage done up as a balcony, lots of emotional hanging on to the rails, falling to knees holding them etc (on the main stage Ayu can see her performance boyfriend and new girlfriend walking along a street, smiling) and during the climax, she would reach out for him and as she did, the balcony would be revealed to be a giant crane mechanism and it would stretch out towards the main stage.
1LOVE performed where the dancers force her into a giant bird cage and to dance. Next song alterna and the cage would be above the stage and move to over the center stage. At the end of the song, everything would go black for a minute while Ayu drops out of the cage unseen. Lights back up - Ayu gone and empty poignant cage.
Something like You Were... sung in a glass cube above the stage, again watching lovers being happy.
I need to stop dreaming!