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Stage Fright in Singers: Three Reaction Types

Author(s) -

Geert Berghs

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

folia phoniatrica et logopaedica

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327

H-Index - 47

eISSN - 1421-9972

pISSN - 1021-7762

DOI - 10.1159/000170079

Subject(s) - derealization , feeling , psychology , stage (stratigraphy) , depersonalization , third stage , cognitive psychology , social psychology , clinical psychology , emotional exhaustion , paleontology , burnout , biology , training (meteorology) , physics , meteorology

Drawing on both my own personal experience and that of many colleagues and pupils, I shall describe three kinds of reactions to stage fright. The first is the primarily mental reaction of derealization, which involves feeling cut off from fear and decreasing body awareness. The second and third reactions to stage fright involve (a) increased and (b) decreased muscle tonus and their associated breathing patterns. Furthermore, I shall indicate how singers manage to pull themselves together through the very act of producing their first tones.

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