Performance Skills

Making up a scene as you go along without any planning is called __________.

• strategizing

• improvisation

• pantomime

• articulation

___________ is a form of non-verbal storytelling in which posture, gesture, and facial expressions may be exaggerated.

• pantomime

• improvisation

• objective

• pitch

The distance between people or objects on stage that can communicate their relationship to each other is called _______________.

• tactics

• tableau

• tone

• spatial relationship

An actor should use _______________ in order to project their voice and have enough air to speak on stage.

• objectives

• diaphragmatic (belly) breathing

• pitch

• volume

A hand movement or __________ can communicate an idea or enhance an emotion and is a form of non-verbal communication.

• pantomime

• tableau

• gesture

• facial expression

The quality or color of your voice that can communicate a character's attitude or feeling is called __________.

• gesture

• pitch

• posture

• tone

___________ is the expected polite behavior in a certain setting.

• Yawning

• Etiquette

• Dancing

• Clapping

An actor needs to use different __________ or ways of achieving their objective in improvisation or a scripted scene.

• mannerisms

• props

• tactics

• makeup

__________ is the loudness or softness of your voice.

• Pitch

• Projection

• Tone

• Volume

The way a character sits or stands is their ____________.

• bad habit

• tone

• posture

• gesture