Friday night was my big performance here in Brisbane of Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Before I sang, I recorded this brief video post for you. I guess it was a way for me to expend some of the obscene quantities of adrenaline gushing around my brain. Hence the occasional camera shakiness. (But it’s not nearly as bad as the time I cut off most of Catherine’s entire face for a full 10 minutes…)
I talk a little about the idea of a Repertoire of Experience and how it helps you deal with fear, which is something I’m going to be expanding on over the next few weeks. It’s a biggy.
Also, I know most of you will be watching the video and shouting “Zoom out! I want to see the frock, dammit!” Sadly I was not thinking of this at the time, so you don’t even get to see the dress I wore. Bad Nat! I promise not to make this omission ever again. 
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Hi Natalie …
I’m sitting here shaking my head in amazement asking “How does she do it ?”
You are on the go ALL the time and yet you still manage to do a Video Post!!
~ Just before you are due to go on stage!!!
However, yes ‘Bad Nat’ …. please for all of us hopeless romantics out here who think of (opera) singers in glorious regalia … show us the dress!! LOL!!
Well done and as always, an excellent post!!
Big Hugs x
I’m waiting for some pics to come back from the UK of all my old performances – this is why there are no glam shots on the blog :p Promise to reveal some awesome dresses soon, hee hee
I love the dressing room video – so cool.
And I think you hit this right on the head – trusting yourself…
I worked with a woman by the name of Julia Balter who has developed her own somatic bodywork method (derived from Feldenkrais and Alexander) which is all about allowing what she describes as “the impulse” to move you – to let it do rather then you doing. To allow this divine quality to carry you and come through you, to allow yourself to be sung.
It’s very hard to describe in words, but the experience is amazing for me as a performer it took me to really amazing places.
It takes the focus away from you as “the star/performer” and more as “the channel”, doesn’t it? Important distinction. I find it turns my ego inside out and stops me thinking it’s about me. It’s not. It’s about the music and how I am lucky enough to be able to lift it off the page and give someone a unique experience of it. Thanks again, insights a-flowing as always!
O, sister of another mother… LOL! Laughing, because what you said about how we should get out of the way of ourselves and trust our process, and also trust the fact that maybe it won’t even be perfect this time, and life is a series of moments etc…? I’ve had the same conversation, using almost the same words, with a couple of people recently. Twitter, operating as a wonderful tuning fork again.
I love the way you talked to and through your fear, by doing this post to us. The camera shake was vivid and real as you got to the heart of things for you…so wonderful. I must get to Brisbane to hear you sing – Gorecki is a recent favourite of mine. (Lucky I’m not too far away.)
I was saying this to a student of mine this morning – that this post was a way for me to talk through my fear – and it wasn’t until I watched the video myself that I noticed how much I was shaking…
I’d love to meet you in Brisbane too so let me know whenever you get a chance to come down and we can meet.
Hi Natalie,
It was great to meet you last night. I was in the front row at this concert and it was spectacular! Maybe that’s where you’d seen me before?
The Gorecki was beautiful and I also loved the Vaughan Williams, Lark Ascending.
Look forward to seeing you again soon.
Best wishes,
Monique.
Oh my! What a crazy coincidence! I’m really thrilled you loved the concert, and wasn’t the Lark Ascending magical? Brendan Joyce knows how to play a fiddle, that’s for sure. I’m sure I must have spotted you on the night, I knew I’d seen your face before.