4 Ways to Amp up your Stage Presence

Live performances are as much about being a great performer as much as being about a great artist. Your talent is important but your performance has to be mind-blowing, if you want your audience to pay attention and remain engaged.

Fortunately, while for some, stage presence can be inherent, it can also be learnt and improved. An understanding of what the audience is looking for and learning how to engage them from beginning to end can create great stage presence.

Here are 4 excellent ideas that you can utilize to boost your stage presence.

It’s not all about you

As artists, you need to have a strong sense of self-love, in order to be able to show your vulnerable self to so many people and hope that they'll love you. But when you're up on that stage, it’s not about you anymore.

From the moment you step on stage, it’s all about the audience and how they feel. Focus on how you can awaken and connect with their emotions with your music or talent. Plan for what you can physically do to ensure their eyes stay glued to you. In addition to a meticulous performance, it's your job as a performer to be able to transport your audience elsewhere with your art.

Give the audience what they want

People don’t spend hard-earned dollars for great seats at a concert to anything less than dazzling. Great performers know what the audience wants, and deliver it. You need to love what you do and feel the music in your body. The audience wants to see you flaunt the talent and show off that perfect funky dance move, mic stand trick, or upside-down and backwards guitar lick you’ve been practicing. Give them what they paid for and then some.

Jump out of your comfort zone

Confidence is an ingredient you can’t create great stage presence without. And confidence comes from hard work, experience, and positive reinforcement. Good performers identify their weaknesses and try to improve those areas. But great performers capitalize on their strengths and let their true talent shine with staying power. Don’t shy away from that open mic you’ve been saying you are "too busy" for, or take that dance class to make your movements more fluid. Whatever it is, jump out of your comfort zone and build the confidence you need to make your stage performance shine.

Find your inner superhero

We all have a part within us that we wish would come out to play. Beyoncé calls hers, her "Sasha Fierce." It is that powerful, confident, magical side of you that is not just confident, it is fearless in performance! That's who your audience wants to see on the stage, over and over again. Discover what makes you unique, and let it shine.

Remember there’s no such thing as ‘too prepared’.

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