Mark James Caliwanagan Contemporary Arts

Grade 12 Gregorio Zara Sir. Javier

Performing Arts
-Performing arts refers to forms of art in which artists use their voices, bodies or inanimate objects
to convey artistic expression. It is different from visual arts, which is when artists use paint, canvas
or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Performing arts include a range of
disciplines which are performed in front of a live audience.
-Performing arts often aims to express one’s emotion and feeligs.
Three Categories of Performing Arts
 Theatre
- Theatre is the branch of performing arts; concerned with acting out stories in front of an
audience, using a combination of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle. Any
one or more of these elements is performing arts. In addition to the standard narrative
dialogue style of plays. Theater takes such forms as plays, musicals, opera,
ballet, illusion, mime, classical Indian dance, kabuki, mummers' plays, improvisational
theatre, comedy, pantomime, and non-conventional or contemporary forms
like postmodern theatre, post dramatic theatre, or performance art.
 Dance
-In the context of performing arts, dance generally refers to human movement, typically
rhythmic and to music, used as a form of audience entertainment in a performance setting.
Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent
on social, cultural, aesthetic artistic and moral constraints and range from functional
movement (such as folk dance) to codified, virtuoso techniques such as ballet.
- Dance is a powerful impulse, but the art of dance is that impulse channeled by skillful
performers into something that becomes intensely expressive and that may delight
spectators who feel no wish to dance themselves. These two concepts of the art of dance—
dance as a powerful impulse and dance as a skillfully choreographed art practiced largely
by a professional few—are the two most important connecting ideas running through any
consideration of the subject. In dance, the connection between the two concepts is stronger
than in some other arts, and neither can exist without the other.
- Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who practices this art is called
a Choreographer.
 Music
- Music is an art form which combines pitch, rhythm, and dynamic to create sound. It can
be performed using a variety of instruments and styles and is divided into genres such
as folk, jazz, hip hop, pop, and rock, etc. As an art form, music can occur in live or recorded
formats, and can be planned or improvised.
- As music is a protean art, it easily co-ordinates with words for songs as physical
movements do in dance. Moreover, it has a capability of shaping human behaviors as it
impacts our emotions.
Examples of Dances:
Waltz
- This is the most commonly thought-of dance when someone mentions ballroom dancing.
It is 28 bars per minute, done in 3/4 time, and it can be fairly romantic.
Tango
- Ballroom tango is different when compared with Argentine tango. It has a 2/4 time
signature, and it is 32 bars per minute. While ballroom tango can certainly be romantic,
sensual might be a better word to describe this popular dance.
Foxtrot
- This is an all-American dance set to jazz music and can be fast or slow depending on the
band.
Quickstep
- This dance is inspired by the foxtrot, but it takes on a much quicker tempo, hence the
name.
Viennese Waltz
- As soon as the 3/4 time music starts, the ballroom studio will become ablaze with the
quick and passionate flow of this ‘old school’ waltz.
International Latin Samba
- A bouncy dance that is partnered for competitions, but as the national dance of Brazil, it
is solo.
Cha-Cha
- This flirtatious dance can be thought of as a slower mamba. Much hip movement will be
involved.
Rumba
- Many people consider the rumba to be the most passionate and romantic dance on this
list. It is incredibly complex and involves many different hip movements.
Jive
- A spicy swing dance set to big band music in which the man leads and the women
encourage more men to ask them to dance.
Paso Doble
- The man dances as if he was a bull, and the woman as if she was bullfighter.
Examples of Theatre:
 Plays
 Musicals
 Opera
 Ballet
 Illusion
 Mime
 Classical Indian Dance
 Kabuki
 Mummer’s Plays
 Improvisational Theatre
 Comedy
 Pantomime

Examples of Music
 Folk
 Jazz
 Hip-Hop
 Pop
 Rock

Performance Art
- Is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context,
traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random
or carefully orchestrated, spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or
without audience participation. The performance can be live or via media; the performer
can be present or absent. It can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time,
space, the performer's body or presence in a medium, and a relationship between performer
and audience. Performance art can happen anywhere, in any type of venue or setting and
for any length of time. The actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in
a particular time constitute the work.

Difference between Performing Arts and Performance Art

Performing Arts are primarily skills-based, Performance Art is primarily concept based. While In
the Performing arts, the message is often presented to an audience via the performers,
in performance art, the art is often the performer themselves as much as their message.