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BODY LANGUAGE, GESTURE AND MUSIC: EXPRESSIVE BODY IN PERCUSSION PERFORMANCE (2022)

Joan Piles Rovira
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Through this research I wanted to find out how can I develop my body language and gestures in order to make more fluent and understandable performance, trying to improve communication with the audience so that they understand and feel the musical work. I decided the idea of this research due to my lack of knowledge in the preparation of the interpretation of a musical piece. This is the reason I started to see how other professionals outside of the field of music could help me improve that step. For this reason, I worked together with the contemporary dance teacher Jérôme Meyer. To develop the research, I used the piece Temazcal from Javier Alvarez as a case study. This piece has been the anchor point that allowed the research to be more focused. Temazcal is inspired by the ancient rituals from Central América, and we worked to adapt my movements to the idea of the piece. So, my work consisted of working and developing physical and expressive tools that allows me to transmit the idea of the musical piece trough my body movements and gestures. This research includes an analysis of two recordings from different periods (before and after working with the dancer) as well as the coached sessions. I took some notes and recordings in order to better convey the work we did together. This has been an interesting process and I think that the approach that I explored can be useful for other musicians as well.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsGesture, body language, percussion, performance
date21/11/2021
published11/07/2022
last modified11/07/2022
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
copyrightJoan Piles Rovira
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1432057/1432148
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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