Musical Sensitivity and Stage Expression

Abstract

Within this master thesis I would like to express my understanding of the life inside a performer when this act is happening, by the eyes of musical means. Since the inner world is so difficult to be put on paper and made rationalized (could it be at all?!), as well as the sensitivity one could have towards it when performing, I am going to take concrete examples of the colliding points of music and theatre and the moment when they live together on stage. In order to come to the question of the ‘inner rhythm’, something that I imagine as crucial for existing on stage, I would like to examine what happens with the performer’s expression when the musical sensitivity enters the world of creation. Followed by a beat that never stops, I see the performer’s body as a music being navigated and operated. By approaching through my own experiences, this master thesis tends to explore how music and theatre (in their pure, initial form) meet in the performer’s expression and where the possible edge/point when they become one could be.