Performing arts
The performing
arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed
for an audience. Performing arts include a range of disciplines which are
performed in front of a live audience, including theatre, music, and dance.
Artists who participate in performing arts in front of an
audience are called performers.
Examples of these
include actors, comedians, dancers, magicians, circus artists,
musicians, and singers. Performing arts are also supported by workers in
related fields, such as songwriting, choreography and stagecraft.
Different forms of performing arts
Ballet
Circus skills
Dance
Magic
Mime
Music
Opera
Drama
Puppetry
Speech
Traditional theatre
Ventriloquism
It s form of performing art
an artistic dance form performed to music, using precise and
highly formalized set steps and gestures.
its purpose is to
use movement to express the music and to illuminate human emotion and endeavor.
Today, ballet is multi-faceted. Classical forms, traditional
stories and contemporary choreographic innovations intertwine to produce the
character of modern ballet.
Circus skills
A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse
entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals,
musicians,
Circus skills are a group of disciplines that have been
performed as entertainment in circus,
sideshow, busking (playing music road
side ), or variety, vaudeville( vaudeville acts performed variety shows,
using music, comedy, dance, acrobatics, magic, puppets, and even trained
animals), or music hall shows.
Dance
Dance, the movement of the body in a rhythmic way, usually to
music and within a given space, for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion, releasing energy, or
simply taking delight in the movement itself.
One of the most basic motives of dance is the expression and communication of emotion.
Dances of india
Bharatanattyam dance – Tamilnadu
Kathakali dance - kerela
Manipuri dance- Manipur
Odissi dance – Odisha
Kuchipudi dance – Andhrapradesh
Sattriya dance-Assam
Mohiniyattam dance –Kerala
Magic
Magic, a concept used to describe a mode of rationality or
way of thinking that
looks to invisible forces to influence events, effect change in material
conditions, or present the illusion of change.
Magic is of tricks that seem to be impossible
and that are done by a performer to entertain people
Mime art
Miming involves acting out a story
through body motions, without the use of speech.
Miming is distinguished from silent comedy, in which the
artist is a character in a film or skit without sound.
Important points to remember to perform this act
Facial
Expression
Clear
Actions.
Beginning,
Middle, End.
Directing
Action to Audience
5.No Talking
Purpose -Mime is important because it is an effective way of encouraging students to
develop their acting skills in terms of body language (posture,
movements, gestures, etc.) and for them to gain a greater awareness of its
importance as a form of communication.
Music
It is vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such
a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.
Purpose- Reasons for creating music include ceremonial
purposes, recreational purposes, and artistic expression.
Music can promote
relaxation, alleviate anxiety and pain
Music
has powerful therapeutic effects which can be achieved through listening or
active music making.
Carnatic classical
music called Karnataka samgita
Opera
Opera is a drama set to music. An opera is like a play in which everything
is sung instead of spoken. Operas are
usually performed in opera houses.
The singers who sing and act out the story are on
the stage, and the orchestra is in front of the stage but lower
down, in the orchestra pit, so that the audience can see the stage.
Grand opera is opera which is all set to music.
Opéra bouffe (French) or Opera
buffa (Italian) is comic opera. The story is very light-hearted and
funny.
Drama
Puppetry
the art of operating puppets, typically either
It is one of the remarkable and ingenious
inventions of the man.
There is
more captivating and enduring elements in puppets
Pupose- to train the disable children
To
creat awareness
For
aesthetic satisfactions
To
play different stories
Types – string puppets
These are full-length figures controlled from
above. Normally they are moved by strings or more often threads, leading from
the limbs to a control or crutch held by the manipulator. The manipulation of a
many-stringed marionette is a highly skilled operation.
Shadow puppets
Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is
an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated
cut-out figures which are held between a source of light and a translucent
screen.
Rod
puppets
A rod puppet is a figure operated from beneath by means of
wooden or metal rods.
Glove puppets are also known as hand puppets, sleeve puppets, palm puppets.
Speech
The expression of or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds.
Speech is human vocal communication using language.
The Speech Communications and Theatre
Arts program fosters students' abilities to think reasonably and
communicate intelligently and creatively.
Purpose- Speech acts serve their function once they are said or communicated. These are commonly taken to include acts such as
apologizing, promising, ordering, answering, requesting, complaining, warning,
inviting, refusing, and congratulating.
Traditional theatre
Traditional theatre is a combination of acting, singing, dance, music, dialogue, narration. They also play crucial roles in culture and society such as
songs sung during agricultural work music that is part of a ritual. Traditional
theatre is often a key feature of cultural promotion intended to attract
tourists.
Ventriloquism,
he production of the voice in such a way that the sound seems to come from a source other than the vocal organs of the speaker.
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