What is a Speech Choir?

          Speech Choirs are performance groups that recite speeches in unison, often with elements of choreography and costuming to help bring the speech to life. It is also called Choral Speaking. The first plays put on by Greeks featured choruses of speakers. Today, Speech Choir is a popular teaching as well as a performing art. It operates like a musical choir minus the music, instead of singing, speech choirs perform spoken-word pieces like poems.

          There are two types of Speech Choir. First is the Traditional or Conventional Speech choir wherein the speakers simply recite the spoken words without the use of costumes, choreography, nor props. The other type of Speech Choir is the Dynamic or Theatrical Speech Choir which makes use of props, costumes, and sometimes, choreography.



          A Speech Choir has many elements included in it:

• MEMBERS 
• PIECES SELECTION
• CHOREOGRAPHY
• COSTUMES
• VOICE QUALITY
• NUMBER OF VOICES
• POWER ABILITY
• TEMPO
• STAGING