performance routine
Practiced show sequence
A performance routine is a practiced sequence of actions, movements, or behaviors that someone executes during a presentation, competition, or show.
Athletes, dancers, musicians, and public speakers develop performance routines to ensure consistency and reduce anxiety when it matters most.
The term also applies to pre-performance rituals—the specific warmups, mental preparations, or superstitious habits someone follows before going on: Her performance routine includes ten minutes of meditation and three stretches.
- actDeed or performance
- rehearsalPre-performance practice session
- run throughBrief preparatory review
- showMake something apparent
- opening nightFirst staged performance
stage · choreography · encore · final bow · applause · standing ovation · spotlight · curtain · script · dress rehearsal · practice · drill · ritual · habit · repetition · execution · delivery · recital
performance routineimprovisation
Spontaneous, unplanned creation
improv · freestyle · jam session · winging it · ad-lib
performance routinerough draft
Unpolished first attempt
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