Physical and Vocal Warm-ups

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Physical and Vocal Warm-ups
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Physical Warm-ups

• Keeps your muscles from getting pulled or
  strained
• Keeps you from getting cramps
• Keeps you from messing up with blocking or action
• Helps to keep you warm and energized!!

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Vocal Warm-ups

• Keeps the voice from getting hurt or you from
  losing your voice
• You will sound better
• Will project your voice better
• Less likely to stumble over lines and the
  audience will be able to understand what you are
  saying and doing

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Examples of Physical Warm-ups

• Rolling Head
• Rolling Shoulders
• Roll Body Down
• Stretch up as High as You Can
• Stretch Legs and Arms
• Standing on Toes (balance)
• BOING! (energy)

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Examples of Vocal Warm-ups

• BIG FACE and small face
• Rolling your Tongue IN your Mouth
• Stretching Tongue OUTSIDE your Mouth
• Open Mouth W I D E and Closing it
• Projection Exercises
• Tongue TwistersTo be said slowly and clearly.
  They are meant to help you speak better

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Starting Warm-ups

• Begin in a circle, everyone facing inward
• Breath in 3 timesdeep breathes
• Dominos
• First with just NOISE
• Then with MOVEMENT and NOISE
• Finally with just MOVEMENT
• Counting with ENERGY and EMOTION
• (counting in the circle)

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Consonants

• Pronounce the sounds of the hard consonants
  clearly as a group
• D, L, K, C, P, N

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Round the Rough

• Round the rough and rugged rock the ragged
  rascal ran.
• (Repeat several times, possibly in different
  tones, volumes and accents)

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Toy Boat

• TOY BOAT
• (Repeat several times, possibly in different
  tones, volumes and accents)

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To Sit

• To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dockIn
  a pestilential prison with a life long
  lockAwaiting the sensation of a short sharp
  shockFrom a cheap and chippy chopper on a big
  black block.

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Whether the Weather

• Whether the weather be cold,
• Whether the weather be hot,
• Well be together, whatever the weather
• Whether we like it or not!

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Red Leather

• Red Leather, Yellow Leather (Repeat 10 times and
  then switch)
• Yellow Leather, Red Leather (Repeat 10 times)

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Rubber Baby

• Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers (Repeat several times)

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Quarter till Two

• At a quarter till two at two today, a quarter
  till two at two,
• A thing distinctly hard to say, yet harder still
  to do.
• With a beat a tat-too at a minute till two,
• And a rat-a-tat-tat-a-tat-tat-a-tat-too.
• And the dragon will come when he hears the drum
  at a quarter till two, at two today,
• At a quarter till two, till two.

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Unique New York

• Unique New York, Unique New York.
• You know you need Unique New York.
• (Repeat several times)

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Russian Wrist Watch

• Russian Wrist Watch
• (Repeat several times. Make sure you pronounce
  all sounds clearly. Use different tones.)

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Kinky Cookie

• Kinky Cookie
• (Repeat several times. Make sure you pronounce
  all sounds clearly. Use different tones.)

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The Vowels (aka AEIOU!)

• (Loudly and Actively)
• A E I O U
• (Quietly and Calmly making the Y with your arms)
• And Sometimes Y!
• (This is both a physical and vocal warm-up)

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YES/NO

• Approach a person in the circle and say YES to
  themthat is all you may say. You are making a
  statement to them. Make sure you put character
  into your statement.
• The person will then respond NO in character
  with emotion. The s/he will move on to another
  person with a YES.
• Yess and Nos should be different. Establish
  a connection and get a response. Use emotion in
  what you say.
• Once you have approached someone, you will sit in
  their spot on the floor.

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BOING!

• In lines
• IN CHARACTER
• Jump 8 times to each side.
• Jump 4 times to each side.
• Jump 2 times to each side.
• Jump 1 time to each side.
• When you get back to the front, jump up and
  shout BOING!

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Shake Out!

• In the circle, facing counter-clockwise
• IN CHARACTER
• Shake each limb (right arm/hand, left arm/hand,
  right leg/foot, left let/foot) FIVE TIMES.
• Then FOUR times.
• THREE times.
• TWO time.
• ONE time.
• The jump and say BOING!!

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Controlled Breathing

• Physical and Vocal Warm-up
• For speaking long lines
• Physical Activities
• Relaxation!