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Position:Home>Theater & Acting> What are ways I can calm down before theater audition?Question: What are ways I can calm down before theater audition!? If I have to sing for an audition or say a monologue I get SO nervous and my breathing is rapid and sometimes i mess up because of that!. I cant seem to calm down and my hands shake and I got butterflies bad!. I love acting thats what im going to major in and i'm really good so what could i do to calm down before an audition!? its not that im shy its just i feel intimidated by the directors or the people you have to audition in front of!. how can i calm down!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It sounds as if you are a person who is as prepared as you can be!. First of all, you need to tell yourself that!. You are prepared and you know you are good and you know you are going to nail that audition!. Next, you have to realize that the director or whoever is at the audition wants you to succeed!. They want you to do well!. You should find someone who can help you learn to meditate before hand!.!.!.or learn yourself how to breathe and relax yourself!. I have been to auditons before where I flat out told them I was nervous!. I said, "I'll tell you right now that I am nervous as hell!. I just wanted to get that off my chest before I start!" After I said that I felt much better and I ended up getting the part!. I've done it more than once and it has always helped me!. Just getting that out there for all to see makes it so you don't have to hide it!.!.!.It's like holding in a fart!. Once it's out you might as well just get on with life because there's nothing you can do about it!.!.!.lol I hope this helps!. Break a leg!Www@QuestionHome@Com If you have a CD player or an iPod, listen to some relaxing music!. Make yourself a playlist of songs that you know will soothe you or are your favorites!. I also like to keep something around my wrist like a rubber band to play with before the audition to get out my nervous energy!. I do stretches, concentrate on breathing, and just try to visualize myself doing an AMAZING job and the judges absolutely loving it! Break a leg!Www@QuestionHome@Com No matter what you do, you'll never get rid of "Performance Anxiety" completely!. But what you should be doing is working on finding a relaxation technique as a matter of routine training/practice!. The whole big idea is to have a mechanism in place and working before you get into an anxiety producing situation (Acting for one)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com a few minutes before you go on, rest your hand on your stomach right below your belly button and take deep, calming breaths in thru the nose and out thru the mouth!. I think it's an old yoga technique!. trust me, it works!Www@QuestionHome@Com Many performers take Tenormin (a prescription medication) for symptoms of stage fright!. Talk to your physician and see if he makes any recommendations to you!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |