THE BODY MOVEMENT IN THE PREPARATION AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE OF AMARAL VIEIRA'S "SETE PEÇAS PARA PIANO" FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF RUDOLF LABAN'S CHOREOLOGICAL STUDIES
Performance; Rudolf Laban. Body movement; Piano.
This dissertation presents an interface between music and body movement aiming at the preparation for musical performance. Based on the observation that sensorial experience can broaden the senses and perceptions, this research seeks to investigate the possibilities of working with the body as the main character in making music, providing self-knowledge about the possibilities of controlling the body and the space, and inserting them in the musical multidirectionality. Having as theoretical basis Rudolf Laban's movement studies (1978), more specifically the movement factors present in choreology and the effort actions, the body exploration under the Labanian perspective were applied to the work Sete Peças para Piano, Op. 169, by Amaral Vieira, in a qualitative autoethnographic research. The performer's reflections about the process were to recognize herself as an embodied and sensitive subject, the artistic process provided transformations in the conception of the work as well as changes in musical and sensorial aspects, the development of active listening, body relaxation, clarity of musical intentions and interpretive freedom.