Theater

Introduction
Kristine Joy Bazar BSA 4A
Contents:
❖ Performing Arts
❖ Theater
❖ Dance
❖ Music
❖ Collaborative Art
❖ Fine arts in Theater
❖ Theatrics Aesthetic
❖ Semiotic

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What is performing arts?
❖ Performing arts are a form of art in which artists use
their voices, bodies, or different objects to show artistic
expression.
❖ The major types of performing arts include music,
dance, drama, opera, and spoken words. It is different
from visual arts, which is when artists use paint, canvas,
or different materials to create art objects.

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What is theater?
❖ It is the kind of performance which is concerned with
acting out a story, with the use of gestures, facial
expressions, music, and speech. The performers are
known as actors and actresses. The specific place of the
performance is also named by the word “theatre” as
derived from the Ancient Greek (théatron, “a place for
viewing”).

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What is dance?
❖ Generally refers to human movement, goes with a
rhythm of music and is used as a form of audience
entertainment in a performance setting.
❖ Choreography is the art of making dances, and the
person who practices this art is the choreographer.
Dance is a powerful kind of art, but skillful performers
channel the art of dance into something that becomes
expressive, and that may delight the audience who
feel no wish to dance themselves.

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What is music?
❖ Music is also a significant art form. Individuals show
their emotions through composing, singing, and
instrumental collaboration.
❖ We can also call music a universal language. Everybody
listens and enjoys music. It is also tightly associated
with dancing. Music provides the rhythm and it makes
dancing possible and better.

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 Definition of Collaborative Art
❖ Collaborative art can be defined simply as artwork that
involves working as a team to create art, and each person
contributes in some significant way to the artwork.
❖ There may be a number of examples of collaborative art.
For example, each person could be instructed to create an
important part of an abstract painting. The quality of the
abstract painting may be reflected in the combination of
each unique contribution. It may involve the cooperation
of the individuals to create art that reflects originality and
complexity.

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 Separate from useful and liberal, was
given the term fine arts. Coined in the
eighteenth century, it was meant to
include sculpture, painting, music, and
Fine art poetry. Later, the performing arts were
added along with disciplines such as
in printmaking, photography, and collage.
“Fine” was not intended to suggest art
theater that was “acceptable” or “delicate”—it
was supposed to classify artistic
endeavors that were beautiful for their
own sake and not compromised by
serving any practical function.

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 Theatric aesthetic
❖ Theatre design is primarily concerned with enhancing the
experience the audience can have at a performance. The
specific architectural elements considered ideal for
improving that experience will differ from culture to
culture and sometimes even between subcultures within a
given culture, but they can still be divided into two general
categories: those that serve the aesthetics deemed
appropriate for the art of theatre in a given culture, and
those that optimize the experience of that art for the
audience.

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 ❖ Semiotics is a methodology for
studying the production of
meaning through analysis of the
signs that cumulatively form the
messages and texts that that we
understand as having meaning.
❖ An icon is a sign that stands for an
Semiotics object by resembling it, not merely
visually, but by any means. Included
in this category of sign are obvious
examples like pictures, maps and
diagrams and some not so obvious
ones like algebraic expressions and
metaphors.

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Thanks!

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