why do you rehearse for perfromances?

Answer 1

As a former performing musician and currently a performing actor, I can tell you that usually, the more you practise (rehearse) a piece, a play, a movie scene, a dance, etc. the better the final performance will be. As you rehearse, your mind and body become more comfortable with going through the notes, lines, steps, etc. and remember them more easily. The exception would be performing things that aren't scripted or written down--improvisations. In these cases you can't rehearse. You can only work to be sure your mind and body know how to be loose and free to make up the music, lines, or dance steps on the spot.

Answer 2

I'me heavier in the music department, but I've done a few local plays. In music, a pianist needs to rehearse because anything worth performing for a live audience probably can't be sightread. If you're talking about an orchestra ("why can't they just all play their parts right?"), well, interpretation is one of the biggest factors in music. Since there are few composers left alive to conduct their own music, it is difficult to know which interpretation of a piece you like the best. I recently saw Paval Kogan conduct the Utah Symphony in a performace of Dvorak's Ninth, the famous New World Symphony. It was terrible. Kogan is known for his fast speeds, (a composer almost never writes an exact tempo, there's usually a tempo indication such as adagio or andantina etc., sometimes a tempo range) but the fourth movement went almost too fast to hear, much less enjoy the music. Rehersal is a very critical time where the conductor can shout at his orchestra; tell the trombones to be softer, make the violins go faster, decide how long that fermata should be held. Bernstine, one of the greatest conductors of all time, even added such things as extra auxillary percussion during his rehersals. I recently performed a Bach concerto with a small string orchestra. There's not a single change in the tempo through the whole piece, save for a ritardando at the end of each movement, so there's little room for artistic interpretation. However, the conductor and I decided to let me draw out a little piano solo of mine, and add a dissonant note near the end. In more impressionistic stuff like Debussy, Ravel or Rachmaninoff, there's a lot of room for interpretation of tempo, mood, tone etc.
In a play, if you don't rehearse, it's terrible. Perhaps a very good acting troupe could pull it off, but with anyone else, it looks downright akward. The director serves the same function as the conductor; he gets to tell them to move upstage (it's hard to tell how something looks to the audience from onstage) or to draw our a dramatic moment more, kill a pregnant pause etc.

Answer 3

In my opinion, there are two major reasons to rehearse for a performance.

First, it is out of respect for the audience. They have to watch you during the performance and if you're not at your absolute best, you are being disrespectful to their time (and more often than not) and to the fact that they paid money to see you.

Second, it is so that you and your fellow performers can go on stage with a confident and relaxed attitude. Good preperation breeds confidence and a confident perform is better able to do everything they do to the best of their ability.

I have heard many people say that they don't need to rehearse or warm up to do their best. Inevitably, they are not nearly as good as the people who do rehearse and warm-up.

In conclusion, you will not be able to do your best work if you do not rehearse and, ultimately, this is disrespectful to the audience.

Answer 4

I think the answer to your question will vary regarding each performer's opinion. Well I've performed in some concerts in Thailand and we didn't had to rehearse before the shows. Well, but we had practices some days or weeks before. Rehearsal is good if you have the time to do it or if you want to do it. If you think that rehearsal is necessary for that certain performance then you should rehearse. For short, you should rehearse if you think it would make you feel good and confident before a certain show. Otherwise, just sit and relax before a certain show and don't forget to thank the One who gave you the talent to share others. God be with you.

Answer 5

Have you ever heard the phrase, "Pratice makes perfect"?

Rehearsing for a performance is no different from the athlete who practices before the big game. In fact it's not any different from the student that studies before the big test.

Before you get up in front of an audience, regardless of whether the audience is 3 people or 20,000, you want to make sure that your performance is going to be the best you can present.

Answer 6

As an actor, singer, and dancer, I can say from experience that without rehearsals, you might as well lay down on the stage and start crying because if you never rehearse, you don't have the experience, you don't have the timing absolutly correct and you don't know your lines as well. So, that's why you rehearse for performances.

Answer 7

As a band student in h.s. and an aspiring musician i think it is for a variety of reasons. Rehersing helps you perfect a piece of music and when doing that you learn new techniques to better yourself in other pieces adn just overall playing. It is also to learn new things, new techniques and to improve your skills. Anyone can pick up an instrument and play it. Whether it is good or not depends on how hard you are willing to work to put in time to perfect your music and make it sound appealing to the human ear. My band director says you should always strive to reach the sound on your instrument that sounds as close to the human voice as possible.

Answer 8

How else could you perform a play?? You cannot get it perfect first time - you need to practice your lines so you can memorise them, practice what you're doing/where you're standing etc. So the directors can get the performance as good as it can be, otherwise actors might do a stage direction wrong, or forget their lines, or dleiver their lines in a way the director did not want etc.

Answer 9

You wouldn't expect to have a professional basketball player play games without practices before right? Even if they already knew how to play. You constantly work on improvements, familiarity of pieces performed etc.

Answer 10

u practice with a full orchestra so that the music will be together. if u dont reherse with a full orchestra, parts r left out and that is not very good.u need to have all the parts to the scene or whatevr ur doing so it looks or sounds good!