Complicating leadership: choral conducting training through movement theatre practice

Daniel Galbreath, Gavin Thatcher
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Conductors are typically presumed to possess the physical, interpretative control in choral performance. Questioning that presumption, this article explores how student conductors might be encouraged to engage physically with the musical sound – and sounding bodies – of a choir. It argues that singers’ vocal performance directly and fruitfully impacts on a conductor’s gestural leadership. Borrowing techniques from established physical/movement-based performance and theatre, it explores how conductors might act as the embodied nexus of the poietic and esthesic dimensions of interpretation (Nattiez, 1990), thus collaboratively constructing a performance. To frame the discussion, a conceptualisation of the overlap between body and voice is set out. This conceptualisation emerged during the development of vocal-physical performance projects (2015-16) and was subsequently developed into a broader philosophical orientation. Focusing on issues of embodiment and empathy, this orientation is enlisted to re-examine choral conducting training practices. The influence of these explorations on Daniel Galbreath’s choral conducting teaching is outlined. Additional action-research with theatre practitioner and teacher Gavin Thatcher is then detailed to demonstrate further developments and disruptions to Galbreath’s practice. As a result, a conducting training practice emerges from these practical enquiries that exploits performers’ mutual, direct physical contact via sound.
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复杂的领导:通过运动剧场实践合唱指挥训练
指挥家通常被认为在合唱表演中具有身体上的、解释性的控制。这篇文章质疑了这种假设,探讨了如何鼓励学生指挥与唱诗班的音乐声音和声音身体进行身体接触。它认为歌手的声乐表现直接而富有成效地影响着指挥的手势领导能力。借鉴已建立的基于物理/动作的表演和戏剧的技术,它探讨了指挥家如何作为诠释的诗歌和美学维度的具体联系(Nattiez, 1990),从而协同构建表演。为了构建讨论框架,我们提出了身体和声音重叠的概念。这一概念是在2015-16年的声乐-肢体表演项目的发展过程中出现的,随后发展成为一个更广泛的哲学方向。聚焦于体现和移情的问题,这一方向被用于重新审视合唱指挥训练实践。概述了这些探索对丹尼尔·加尔布雷斯合唱指挥教学的影响。与戏剧从业者和教师加文·撒切尔(Gavin Thatcher)一起进行的额外行动研究,然后详细展示了加尔布雷斯实践的进一步发展和破坏。因此,指挥训练实践从这些实际的询问中产生,利用表演者通过声音相互直接的身体接触。
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