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

与巴赫共舞：哥德堡变奏曲舞蹈作品的编舞音乐分析

• 批准号: 2625693
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Roehampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2625693
• 关键词: Dancing; Bach; Choreomusical; Analysis; Dance

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.

比利时编舞家Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker写道：“巴赫的音乐与众不同，它将动作和舞蹈融为一体，将最伟大的抽象与具体的、物质的、随后甚至是超验的维度联合收割机结合在一起。“她的话描绘了巴赫音乐的舞蹈力量，也许也解释了为什么这么多著名的编舞家都为他打分。事实上，当我观看巴赫舞曲时，我经常被音乐和舞蹈特征的互动方式所打动。一个舞者的鲁莽跳跃加重了高颤音，或一个阴沉的低音线偏转到一个背景运动的眼睛。但音乐和舞蹈也有着广泛的联系：无论是通过和声还是张力，结构特征和情感特征都通过媒介相互传达，作品的艺术身份也在不断变化。我的项目探讨了巴赫键盘作品《戈德堡变奏曲》（GV）中舞蹈作品中音乐和动作之间的关系。这个乐谱非常适合研究巴赫的音乐和舞蹈是如何相互作用的。它结构复杂，情感深刻，激发了不同编舞团体的好评。该项目首次关注杰罗姆罗宾斯（1971），史蒂夫帕克斯顿（1994），帕姆坦诺维茨（2017）和德Keersmaeker（2020）的GV设置。这些著名的编舞家提出了明显不同的方法来GV和各种各样的音乐舞蹈互动进行调查。这项研究包括对电影录音和巴赫乐谱的仔细分析，对艺术家的采访，以及基于工作室的实验。我作为一名专业音乐家，拥有丰富的舞蹈经验，我的研究涉及舞蹈家和音乐家。我为他们提供了一个宝贵的方法来理解音乐与舞蹈的关系，通过两种艺术形式的透镜，发展学术理解和实践技能的潜力。