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Topic: Bowing after a performance (Read 2051 times)

keyofc

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Bowing after a performance

on: December 05, 2005, 06:21:37 AM

Can anyone explain exactly how they bow after a performance?
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m1469

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Re: Bowing after a performance

Reply #1 on: December 05, 2005, 06:39:01 AM

Well, I make sure to smile (I don't have to force myself) and I like to look at the audience just before I take my bow. I put my left hand on the curve of the piano (at the end of the keyboard) and place my right foot ever so slightly ahead of my left. I let my right arm loosely hang and keep my hand close to my legs. Then I bend at the waist with my head down too (not looking at the audience as I bow).

Some people say things like "hello hippopotamus" while they are down to time it. I don't believe I consciously do that. But anyway, then I am up, I smile at the audience again and I am off.

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Re: Bowing after a performance

Reply #2 on: December 05, 2005, 07:35:07 AM

Quote from: m1469 on December 05, 2005, 06:39:01 AM

Some people say things like "hello hippopotamus" while they are down to time it. I don't believe I consciously do that. But anyway, then I am up, I smile at the audience again and I am off.

m1469

I say "effalumps and woozels" when I bow.

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Re: Bowing after a performance

Reply #3 on: December 05, 2005, 05:05:27 PM

I bow long enough to check my shoelaces - if untied, I will take care of them at that time.

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