Conducting Study 13

Today let’s consider the conducting plane.

Notice in this brief example from a performance presented during one of the 2012 ACDA Divisional Conferences that while our colleague utilizes much of the expanse of of the conducting plane, she focuses most of her gestural energies toward the center.  It would almost be possible to draw a series of concentric circles from the mid-thoracic cavity outward, with the amount of time spent decreasing in fairly even proportions.

Bearing in mind that we are motivated to use conducting gestures based on the demands of the score at hand, where is the bulk of your gesture relative to the plane of conducting?  Put another way (given that we are in the midst of baseball season) where is your conducting “strike zone?”