Performing Arts and Culture
Performing Arts
Performing arts are art forms in which artists use their body or voice to convey artistic expression—as opposed to plastic arts, in which artists use clay, metal, paint, and other materials to create physical art objects. The first recorded use of the term performing arts was in 1711.
OVERVIEW OF THE TOPICS:
1 Types of performing arts • 1.1 Theatre • 1.2 Dance • 1.3 Music
2 History of Western performing arts • 2.1 Renaissance • 2.2 Modern era • 2.3 Post-War performance
3 Eastern performing arts • 3.1 Middle East • 3.2 Iran • 3.3 India and Pakistan • 3.4 China • 3.5 Thailand • 3.6 Cambodia • 3.7 Japan
4 Philippines performing arts • Theatre • Dance • Music
Performing arts include dance, music, opera, theatre, magic, Spoken word, circus arts and musical theatre.
Artists who participate in performing arts in front of an audience are called:
Performers - including actors, comedians, dancers, magicians, musicians, and singers
Performing arts are also supported by workers in related fields, such as song writing and stagecraft.
Performers often adapt their appearance, such as with costumes and stage makeup, etc.
There is also a specialized form of fine art in which the artists perform their work live to an audience. This is called performance art. Most performance art also involves some form of plastic art, perhaps in the creation of props. Dance was often referred to as a plastic art during the Modern dance era.
Theatre
Theatre is the branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle—indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts. In addition to the standard narrative dialogue style of plays, theatre takes such forms as plays, musicals, opera, ballet, illusion, mime, classical Indian dance, kabuki, mummers '
Performing arts are art forms in which artists use their body or voice to convey artistic expression—as opposed to plastic arts, in which artists use clay, metal, paint, and other materials to create physical art objects. The first recorded use of the term performing arts was in 1711.
OVERVIEW OF THE TOPICS:
1 Types of performing arts • 1.1 Theatre • 1.2 Dance • 1.3 Music
2 History of Western performing arts • 2.1 Renaissance • 2.2 Modern era • 2.3 Post-War performance
3 Eastern performing arts • 3.1 Middle East • 3.2 Iran • 3.3 India and Pakistan • 3.4 China • 3.5 Thailand • 3.6 Cambodia • 3.7 Japan
4 Philippines performing arts • Theatre • Dance • Music
Performing arts include dance, music, opera, theatre, magic, Spoken word, circus arts and musical theatre.
Artists who participate in performing arts in front of an audience are called:
Performers - including actors, comedians, dancers, magicians, musicians, and singers
Performing arts are also supported by workers in related fields, such as song writing and stagecraft.
Performers often adapt their appearance, such as with costumes and stage makeup, etc.
There is also a specialized form of fine art in which the artists perform their work live to an audience. This is called performance art. Most performance art also involves some form of plastic art, perhaps in the creation of props. Dance was often referred to as a plastic art during the Modern dance era.
Theatre
Theatre is the branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle—indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts. In addition to the standard narrative dialogue style of plays, theatre takes such forms as plays, musicals, opera, ballet, illusion, mime, classical Indian dance, kabuki, mummers '
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performing_arts; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Philippines http://www.aprenderjapones.com/index.php?content=teatro&lang=en