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Stanislavski on singing, the tools we can use to help us stay better focused on Stage (2024)

Juncai Zhang
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Being on stage and under full exposure is a scary thing. Many musicians including myself have experienced in our music life some level of stage fright, loss of focus, stage anxiety, self-judgment thoughts, and all other distractions. Such distractions are unfortunately unavoidable and most of the musicians just learn to better deal with such distractions by themselves with time and experience. In this research, I intend to find out and develop a way to help musicians, especially singers, to stay better focused on music while singing on stage, so that they feel more confident and less distracted by their own judgmental voice or the physical environment/emotional status. I was inspired by Stanislavski and his acting system. Stanislavski’s system was originally developed in the first half of the twentieth century. This system is still widely used in theatre schools or drama classes in conservatories. Its purpose is to train actors to bring out more believable actings on stage, to bring out true convincing emotions of the play's characters. Singers share a big common ground with stage actors. Their work is often based on text/script. They both need to move or sing on stage. They both are often in a given character. So, I thought learning from actors how to prepare for a role would be hugely beneficial for singers, and Stanislavski’s system has proven its effectiveness and efficiency in character-building throughout history. I will introduce and explain Stanislavski’s acting system in my thesis through 5 real case studies to prove its effectiveness in helping singers stay better focused while singing on stage.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsStanislavsky, acting methodology, Music analysis, focus, performance practice
date14/09/2023
published04/07/2024
last modified04/07/2024
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
copyrightJuncai Zhang-14-09-2023
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2285819/2547973
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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