Performing Arts
- Are a form 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.
- Include a range of disciplines which are performed in
front of a live audience.
Performers
- Artists who participate in performing arts in front of
an audience
- Examples of these include actors, comedians,
dancers, magicians, circus artists, musicians, and
singers.
TYPES:
- Performing arts may include dance, music, opera,
theatre and musical theatre, magic, illusion, mime,
spoken word, puppetry, circus arts.
Dance
- In 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.
- 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.
“If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at
yourself and make a change” – Michael Jackson
Choreography
- Is the art of making dances
Choreographer
- The person who practices this art (choreography)
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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 on 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, stand-up
comedy, pantomime, and non-conventional or
contemporary forms like postmodern theatre, post
dramatic theatre, or performance art.
Kabuki
- Is a classical Japanese theatre that includes singing
and dancing, known for the stylization of its drama
and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its
performers.
- Originally women were the only actors, playing both
male and female roles, but as the performers began
gaining the wrong kind of attention, young male
actors took over the roles.
- In 2008, it was inscribed in the UNESCO
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
of Humanity.
Music
- “I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s
shadow; If I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I
believe.” – Whitney Houston
- Is an art form which combines pitch, rhythm, and
dynamic in order 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.
Magic
- Which encompasses the subgenres of illusion, stage
magic, and close up magic
- Is a performing art in which audiences are
entertained by staged tricks or illusions of seemingly
impossible feats using natural means.
- It is to be distinguished from paranormal magic
which are effects claimed to be created through
supernatural means.
- It is one of the oldest performing arts in the world.
- Modern entertainment magic, as pioneered by 19th-
century magician Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin, has
become a popular theatrical art form.
- In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, magicians
such as Maskelyne and Devant, Howard Thurston,
Harry Kellar, and Harry Houdini achieved widespread
commercial success during what has become known
as “The Golden Age of Magic”.