Contemporary Philippine Arts:

Techniques
 Techniques

The skill of the artist to

Process or method that execute his/her work
makes use of the and produce the effect
materials he or she wants to
achieve
 Techniques

Dance Musical Acting

Technique Technique Technique

Artist’s Writing
Technique Technique
 ➢Mirroring – dancers face each other while doing the same
steps

➢Retrograde – reverse performance of a sequence of dance

steps

➢Canon – dancers performing similar steps in a successive

manner
Dance
➢Levels – varying positions of dancers
Technique
➢Shadowing – technique where a dancer is standing behind
one another while doing the same steps

➢Unison – unanimous performance of steps

 Dance
Technique
 Dance
Technique
 Characterization of the human experience

Acting
Technique
 Characterization of the human experience
• Learning the rhythm of one’s line
• Employing word stress
• Giving and receiving cues
• “breathing life” to a character

Acting
Technique
 Theatre Techniques

Acting
Technique
 Cinematic Techniques

Acting
Technique