Dancing to Bach: A Choreomusical Analysis of Dance Works to the Goldberg Variations

比利时编舞Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker写道：“巴赫的音乐独一无二，它本身带有动作和舞蹈，成功地将最伟大的抽象与具体的、物理的、甚至是超然的维度结合在一起。”她的话描绘了巴赫音乐的舞蹈力量，或许也解释了为什么这么多著名的编舞为他配乐。事实上，当我观看芭蕾舞时，我经常被音乐和舞蹈特征相互作用的方式所打动。舞者鲁莽的跳跃会突出高颤音，或者低音低音会使视线偏向背景运动。但音乐和舞蹈也有着广泛的联系：结构和情感特征在媒体上相互影响，无论是通过和声还是通过紧张，作品的艺术身份不断变化。我的项目探索了以巴赫的键盘乐曲《戈德堡变奏曲》(GV)为背景的舞蹈作品中音乐和运动之间的关系。这段乐谱非常适合用来研究巴赫音乐和舞蹈的互动方式。它具有丰富的结构复杂性和情感深度，启发了AdiVerse编舞团队的好评作品。该项目首次聚焦于Jerome Robbins(1971)、Steve Paxton(1994)、Pam Tanowitz(2017)和De Keersmaeker(2020)的GV设置。这些著名的编舞呈现了截然不同的GV方法和各种音乐-舞蹈互动来研究。这项研究包括对电影录音和巴赫配乐的仔细分析，对艺术家的采访，以及基于工作室的实验。我的研究利用我作为一名拥有丰富舞蹈经验的专业音乐家的独特背景，对舞者和音乐家进行了交谈。我为他们提供了一种非常有价值的方法来理解音乐和舞蹈的关系，通过两种艺术形式的镜头来发展学术理解和实践技能的潜力。

The Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker writes, "Like no other, Bach's music carries withinitself movement and dance, managing to combine the greatest abstraction with a concrete, physical and,subsequently, even transcendental dimension." Her words depict the dance power of Bach's music andperhaps explain why so many prominent choreographers have set his scores. Indeed, when watching a Bachdance I am often struck by the way music and dance features interact. A dancer's reckless leap accentuates a high trill, or a sombre bass line deflects the eye towards a background movement. But music and dance alsorelate broadly: structural and affective characteristics inform each other across the media, whether throughharmony or tension, and the work's artistic identity constantly shifts.My project explores this relationship between music and movement in dance works set to Bach's keyboard composition The Goldberg Variations (GV). This score is ideally suited to investigate how music and danceinteract in Bach. Rich in structural complexity and emotional depth, it has inspired acclaimed works from adiverse group of choreographers. The project focuses for the first time on GV settings by Jerome Robbins(1971), Steve Paxton (1994), Pam Tanowitz (2017), and De Keersmaeker (2020). These celebratedchoreographers present markedly different approaches to GV and a variety of music-dance interactions toinvestigate. The research involves close analysis of film recordings and Bach's score, interviews with artists,and studio-based experimentation.Drawing upon my unique background as a professional musician with extensive dance experience, myresearch speaks to both dancers and musicians. I offer them an invaluable approach to understanding the music-dance relationship with the potential to develop scholarly understanding and practical skills, working through the lens of two artforms.