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Arts and culture

Grade 6

Creative, interpreting and performing

Module 13

Drama: the warm-up

Before we can start being creative in our drama class, you have to warm up properly to prepare your body and voice for performance.

Activity 1:

To perform relaxation, breathing, resonance, pitch and articulation exercises: the warm-up

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  • Enjoy the following fun exercises that will help you to prepare your ‘instruments’.

Relaxation:

Relaxation is fundamental to the efficient use of the body, not only in drama, but in carrying out our daily routines with maximum efficiency.

Relaxation Exercise:

Shoulders

  • Stretch the arms upward as far as you can reach.
  • Look upward.
  • Let the arms fall.
  • Repeat four times.
  • Shrug your shoulders.
  • Raise them as high as you can.
  • Hold for a moment.
  • Drop them.
  • Repeat four times.
  • Roll your head around gently, four times – clockwise and then anti-clockwise.
  • Imagine a strong elastic cord running down from the top of your head, through your spine, and attached to the last vertebra of your back.
  • Imagine the cord is tugged and it gently lifts your head and straightens your spine.
  • Let your head and spine bounce very gently to the easy upward pull.
  • Let your head ‘float’ up without any help from the shoulders.

Face

  • Make the most hilarious and horrible faces you can.
  • Stretch and purse your lips.
  • Inflate your cheeks.
  • Screw up your eyes, then open them wide.
  • Frown fiercely and release.
  • Waggle your jaw.
  • Shake your head.

Arms and hands

  • Swing your arms like a windmill.
  • Slowly and flexibly flap them like a bird.
  • Raise your arms and let them fall as though through water.
  • Shake your hands till your fingers flap.
  • Play the piano with your fingers.
  • Rotate your hands from your wrists, clockwise and then anti-clockwise.

Upper body

  • Inhale through your nose.
  • Exhale through your mouth.
  • Rotate your hips to the left and then to the right.
  • Stand with your feet apart and take a deep breath.
  • Stretch up and as you breathe out, let the top half of your body fall forward from the hips, first the hands, then arms, head, shoulders and chest.
  • Let your spine curl forward.
  • Hang your head down for a moment.
  • Inhale and uncurl.
  • Reach up with a catlike stretch.
  • Repeat four times.

Ankles and feet

  • Shake each leg in turn.
  • Clench each foot and release.
  • Swing each leg like a pendulum.
  • Run lightly on the spot on the ball of your foot.
  • Stand on one leg – lift the other leg a little – rotate the foot from the ankle.
  • Change legs.
  • Kick with each leg (like a footballer).
  • Bounce lightly on the balls of your feet.
  • Change your weight from foot to foot.
  • Stretch up and inhale.
  • Stand still – breathe comfortably.

Breathing

Good breathing is a fundamental requirement for voice production.

Breathing exercise:

  • Stand easy and erect with feet apart.
  • Rest the backs of the hands on the lower side of the ribs.
  • Make sure your shoulders are loose and not raised.
  • Inhale, noiselessly, to a mental count of one-two-three.
  • Feel the outward swing of the lower ribs pushing the hands out.
  • Release the breath gently to a mental count of one-two-three.
  • Repeat six times.

Resonance

Resonance is the sound produced by a body.

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