Choose one thing you regularly do in rehearsal. It could be anything: one phrase you say just before you start conducting, one activity you do in a warm-up, or one gesture you use a lot. Now think about whether it has impact. Anything used once has impact, but used too often, that very same thing loses its intensity and power to communicate. Basically, the more we see or hear something, the more we tend to ignore it.
Peter Loel Boonshaft, Director of Education
KHS America
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