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pre-performance rituals!
lets start a thread on pre-performance rituals!
What do you do before a show to calm your nerves? What do you do before a show to warm up and stretch? What do you eat or drink- or do you avoid eating and drinking? Do you watch any inspirational videos or listen to any particular song or music to pump you up?? Prayers? Meditation? Lucky underwear? 😀
I like to include glitter in my makeup! Glittery makeup and shiney costumes really make me feel like a performer. I warm up with some yoga and mild stretching. I remind myself to be prepared to improvise if necessary and have a plan B trick or move if plan A doesn't work out. I also remind myself to do my best and remember that the audience is on my side (that makes my nervous butterflys flutter away). I don't eat too much because a full belly makes me fatigued and I allow myself only a half shot of something alcoholic if my nerves are out of control. Videos of Felix Cane really help get me in the zone.
What about you guys?
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L-theanine. I take it when I am preparing at home and I take additional with me if needed.
Typically I have listened to my music and have planned for failure prior to stepping in the door. The last showcase I did I took my music with me and sat and listened to it during the few performances before mine. Luckily they had a pole out in the hallway for us to warm up and practice on.
Now my last performance went totally haywire. We were supposed to be the third act after intermission. I was out in the audience talking to friends when I got a tap on my back telling me were were up next because some performers did not show. This was at least an hour before we were scheduled. I did not even have a chance to warm up or fix my makeup. I barely had time to spray myself down with , but I am very happy that I had it.
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I go through an array of emotions before a performance! Nerves, panic, all the what ifs. …so I usually stretch, listen to my music and pretty much pretend I’m alone back there hiding to try to calm myself! Then if someone starts talking to me I usually go on and on like a psycho chatterbox lol which calms my nerves a bit!
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I tend to super-duper introvert. I plug in my music and go through my routine over and over… and of course try to really enjoy the music so that when I get on stage with it I can pump it out the way it's meant to be. If I don't go through my routine over and over just before I get on stage, I know my anxiety will get the best of me because it makes my brain basically shut down. I need the extra reinforcement to help me remember it when that happens.
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I have to have my performance bag! It has my costume, warm up clothes I can wait in, makeup, hairspray, bobbypins, safety pins, sometiems even a hotel sewing kit…anything I might possibly need to fix my costume or hair. And grip aids of course!
I also get really hyper before I show so I goof off whith whoever's with me. Things like singing and acting out Defying Gravity (looove that song when I'm nervous!), running around doing jumps and being silly… Even when I don't know the people. I had my escort to the stage dance with me while they cleaned my poles lol
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I tell myself that performing is just like teaching pole class so there should be nothing to be nervous about.
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