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

比利时编舞安妮·特蕾莎·德·克尔斯梅克（Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker）写道：“与其他音乐不同，巴赫的音乐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、随后甚至是超越的维度结合起来。”她的话描绘了巴赫音乐的舞蹈力量，也许可以解释为什么那么多杰出的编舞家为他谱曲。事实上，在观看单身舞会时，我经常被音乐和舞蹈的互动方式所震撼。舞者不计后果的跳跃突出了高颤音，或者低沉的低音线将视线转移到背景动作上。但音乐和舞蹈也有广泛的联系：无论是通过和谐还是紧张，结构和情感特征在媒体上相互传递信息，作品的艺术身份不断变化。我的项目探讨了巴赫键盘作曲《哥德堡变奏曲》（GV）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。它具有丰富的结构复杂性和情感深度，激发了来自不同群体的编舞家的作品。该项目首次将重点放在杰罗姆·罗宾斯（1971年）、史蒂夫·帕克斯顿（1994年）、帕姆·塔诺维茨（2017年）和德·基尔斯梅克（2020年）的全球视角设置上。这些著名的编舞家提出了明显不同的方法来研究GV和各种各样的音乐舞蹈互动。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。凭借我作为一名专业音乐家的独特背景和丰富的舞蹈经验，我的研究同时涉及舞者和音乐家。我为他们提供了一种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镜头来发展学术理解和实践技能。

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.