Basic Theatre Exercise

Theatre is like a art and have some exercise which needed to be performed by a theatre artist in order to polish his/her skills.  It include many things like breathing exercise, voice exercise, expression exercise and many more. Today we are going to talk about this exercise which ultimately help in improving the performance of theatre artist. It  includes

1. Trust building

2. Emotional activities

3. Voice exercises

1. Trust building exercises are basically important because it ultimately increase the trust of the artist on his/her team. Sometimes we all see that there are number of scenes which includes jump, lifting, falls etc. If a person is not trusted on other person then ultimately he/she has the fear which will be seen on face of the artist. It include some exercise like lift in which player lies on the floor with the group surrounding her or him. Each member of the group is responsible for lifting a part of that player’s body. The group lifts the player gradually up over their heads. This exercises ultimately help in building trust.

2. Emotional activities:- We have seen many times in theatre that the same artist has to play various role which varies in emotions. This exercise help person to become like a water so that he can bend his emotions in the shape according  to the situation. Exercises like HASH (Happy – Angry – Sad – Happy) help in exploring the feelings and emotions of a person. In this each player counts to ten. As they count, they move through the emotions: happy – angry – sad – happy. (For example, on 1-2-3 they might be happy, on 4-5 they might be angry, on 6-7-8 they might be sad, and on 9-10 they are happy again.)

3. Voice exercise:- Voice is one of the most important thing which help in depicting that whether the person is angry, sad, happy, joyful and much more. In this breathing play a major role as good breathing habits are the base of a good voice. In this exercise the artist feels each breath is going down into your lungs with each inhale and pushed up each time you exhale. In this relaxation is taught  throughout the breathing and speaking to reduce tension in the neck, shoulders, jaw and back.

This exercise are the basic and should be practiced by the theatre artist in order to polish his/her skills.