This weekend I watched the movie, "Black Swan". I left the theater shocked by how accurately the movie captured the struggle performers experience. The movie very accurately portrayed the fine line between driving for perfection and letting your emotions flow through your performance. A performer spends hours slaving away to the perfection of their art, then must let all of that go during the performance. They must trust the work they have put in and let go, letting their emotions fill them and spill out into the music.
As a performer I have struggled with this awkward moment several times. Particularly, i am struggling with it now, as I prepare for my recital. Right now I am struggling with Bach. I put in the effort learning the notes and memorizing. I am able to reach a state of comfort with the memorization that I can let the flow out when I am practicing. However, when I get in front of an audience, the comfort of the notes disappears. The emotion is still there, but the accuracy has escaped me. How do you play accurately while still letting yourself go?
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