Things you can do to an audience:
Provoke
Thought provoke
Overwhelm
Control
Free
Confuse
Entertain
Challenge
Reassure
Amuse
Take over
Inspire
Love
Shock
Comfort
Puzzle
Condescend
Trick
Empower
Educate
Manipulate
Lie
Close
Open
But you have to pass through the dancers for all these. As in, whatever it is you want to do to your audience, you'll have first do the exact same thing to the dancers you’re working with. No way around it. You eventually relate to your audience in the same way you do to the dancers.