Sinfonia Cymru manager, Sophie Lewis, looks forward to the unique opportunity An Anatomie in Four Quarters affords to find new ways of building a rapport between the audience and orchestral musicians.
How important is the rapport between the audience and
orchestral musicians during concert performances? How do you recognise it
and how do orchestral musicians respond? These are all questions that
really interest our performers and the team at Sinfonia Cymru and this is
one of the reasons why Anatomie in Four Quarters is such an interesting
project for us right now.
When I experience live performances of drama or dance, I
feel very involved in it all. I might laugh out loud if it is funny or
weep if it moves me, sit on the edge of my seat if I am totally engrossed and
of course show my appreciation for it at the end with my applause. Either
way, I consider this a two way thing between me and the performers, as if the
way I and my fellow audience members react has the power to create a rapport
between both parties which can influence the success of that individual live
performance and how the performers felt about it. In many ways, I guess it can
do just that. Imagine a stand-up comic getting no laughs or a stunning pas
de deux igniting no physical response from an audience whatsoever.
How does this work in classical music, other than the
applause at the end of a piece and does it matter? That is what we are
trying to find out at Sinfonia Cymru and through our collaboration with Clod
Ensemble next week we might get a little closer to finding out some answers.
Breaking down the physical barrier between stage and audience, getting up close
to audiences, moving around, and exploring something new like this will give us
the opportunity to understand ourselves and our audience more. So let’s
see what happens.
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