Research On The Body Language In Singing

The singer takes the music as the main carrier to express and deliver their inner impressions, understanding, feelings, thoughts, and desires in vocality which is considered as a performing art. As we all know, the body language in the art of Singing is a kind of reflection of the psychological activity. It is also an important means of reproducing the main emotion and acts as the bridge to convey to the audience the emotion and content of a musical work. According to scientific research, human eyes are the most sensitive and important sensorial organs, and in the physical demands of human, vision is nuch more needed than other senses such as hearing, taste and smell. with the development of the high technology, the rapid development of various media forms have replced the simple devices such as radio, tape, CD,which have no pictures to meet peoples increasing demand. A great number of big screens and 3D screens give the audience a variety of visual stimulus. So the audience have ever-increasing demands that require not only the singer has a beautiful voice, also requires a good stage presence during the appreciation of the singing performance. The moment when singers on the stage singing is the combined point of the voice skills and stage performance. So the actor's body language is very important to reach the perfect stage performance. This paper analyses the body language of singing from four aspects.The first chapter make outlines of body language, and explain it from the concept, characteristics and influence. First of all, the article tells the readers that body language is a silent language which expresses thoughts and feelings through facial expressions, gestures and other parts of the body movements. The body language in the art of singing is a kind of reflection of the psychological language, and mental activities can be conveyed through body language. The second part is the analysis of the characteristic of the singing body language . Through analysis we can see that the body language of the performers and the vocal language together make up the main integral parts of the performance. The bosy language in singsing has the characteristic of transitivity and consensual nature which make it communicate with audience in two-way communication thus to transfer the content of art works smoothly. Body language of singing has the inherent meaning and external disclosure. It can reifier and vivify nonobjective musical content. Body language also havs the external form of objectivity and standards. It has the reality of existence, which is often used to create the open feel in time and space and the specific background of delicate atmosphere. Finally, according to Albert.Meilabian's research on the information transferring process ,a famous American psychologist and scientist, in the process of the information transferring, body languge information takes is a greater percentage than vobal language and voice transmission. Therefore, the body language is playing an irreplaceable role which can not be ignored in the performance.Chapter two introduces the aesthetic analysis of body language from the aspect of the aesthetic nature, aesthetic process and building the senseof beauty so that the performers understand the reality of existence of the beauty, the understanding of beauty (aesthetic ) and the beauty of creation (beauty of art). and performers should also know the three interaction between law and reality, and thus to grasp the direction of the beauty to make a more perfect performance.Chapter three talks about the training and using of body language. It has guiding significance. Because either from the inner analytic training, elements of training, training and creative training of body language or from outside the principles of body language, facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, posture and pace ,the explanation can help those who have not received any training in physical performances to avoid the stiff, body relaxed, uneasy and lack confidence performance.Finally , chapter four explains the the practice of body language in singing to tell everyone who loves performing a fact. That is, besides the psychological ,cultural qualities and artistic quality, performers should also pay attention to the exchange with the audience and characters and self-exchange audiences to achieve the perfect performance on the stage!...