rehearsing
Running through scenes
Rehearsing is practicing something before a performance or presentation.
Actors rehearse their lines, musicians rehearse pieces, speakers rehearse speeches.
The aim is to work out problems and build confidence before it counts.
Rehearsing extends to mental preparation: She kept rehearsing what she would say when she saw him.
Strokes connecting two points
- blockingImpeding forward progress
- scenesDivisions within acts
- run-throughFull practice of something
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
cue · understudy · monologue · soliloquy · tech · promptbook · read-through · off-book
Committing information to recall
- scriptWritten words for performance
- warm-upPre-activity preparation routine
- dictionChoice of words
- intonationPitch variation in speech
projection · choreography · timing · pacing · repetition · drilling · polishing · refining
lines
Strokes connecting two points
- blockingImpeding forward progress
- scenesDivisions within acts
- run-throughFull practice of something
dialogue · cue · understudy · monologue · soliloquy · tech · promptbook · read-through · off-book · marking
memorization
Committing information to recall
intonation · projection · choreography · timing · pacing · repetition · drilling · polishing · refining
- jazz educationjazz composition, ear training, sight reading, jazz standards, jazz history
- group activitiesgroup games, voting, protest, group dance, group project
- mental processesthinking, think, reasoning, cognition, pondering
- musicianshipsinging, playing, performing, practicing, harmonizing
- performingperform, sing, play, act, dance
- practicingdrills, studying, repetition, exercises, warm-ups
rehearsingimprovising
Creating spontaneously without plan
ad-libbing · winging it · extemporizing · freestyling · jamming
rehearsingperforming
Executing an action
presenting · opening night · premiering · executing · debuting
rehearsingdiscovering
Finding what was hidden
sight-reading · creating · composing · cold reading · originating
rehearsal, rehearse, rehearsed, unrehearsed, rehearses, rehearsals, rehearsers, rehearser