The performing arts are those forms of art which differ from the

plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and

the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create

some physical art object. The term "performing arts" first appeared in

the English language in the year 1711.

DANCE

MUSIC

DRAMA

CIRCUS ARTS

MUSICALS

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 songwriting and stagecraft.

Music as an academic discipline mainly focuses on three career paths, music performance, music education (training music teachers), and musicology (theory, history, etc.). Students learn to play a musical instrument, but also study music theory, musicology, history of music and musical composition.

It is an art form whose medium is sound and silence.

Elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike; "art of the Muses"

"Drama" (Greek "to do", "seeing place") 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.

theatre takes such forms as musicals, opera, ballet, illusion, mime, classical Indian dance, kabuki, mummers' plays, improvisational theatre, stand-up comedy, pantomime, and non-conventional or arthouse theatre.

CharacterPlot

ThemeDialogue

GenreAudienceStagecraft

CharacterMost simply a character is one of the persons who appears in the

play, one of the dramatis personae (literally, the persons of

the play). Most plays contain major characters and minor

characters.Protagonist and the Antagonist.

Plotthe order of events in a narrative

or any other type of story. 

Theme The plot has been called the body of a play and the theme has been called its soul. It is a broad idea, message, or moral of a story. The

message may be about life, society, or human nature.

 

DialogueIt is a literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken

conversational exchange between two or more people.

Audienceis a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature in any medium.

Audience members participate in different ways in different

kinds of art; some events invite overt audience participation and

others allowing only modest clapping and criticism and

reception.

Audience

StagecraftA generic term referring to the

technical aspects of theatrical, film, and video production. It includes, but is not limited to, constructing and rigging scenery, hanging and focusing of lighting, design and

procurement of costumes, makeup, procurement of props, stage

management, and recording and mixing of sound.

Stagecraft

Dance (from Old French dancier) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting.

Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who does this is called a choreographer.

CenteringGravityBalancePostureGestureRhythm

Moving in SpaceBreathing

CenteringThis is maintaining a sense of

your own body center that holds you together as you move. It allows you to move gracefully

and freely.

GravityThis is the force that holds you to the earth. It is a force you have

to work with because it constantly inhibits movement.

BalanceBalance is concerned with more than balancing on one leg. Your aim is to achieve and constantly maintain an inner balance of the

whole body. It is tension of mutual support among all parts

that brings the whole together in a new way.

PostureIt is the key to balance and

movement. Your posture not only reveals your feelings but can also

reveal feelings in you.

GestureGesture involves using the body as an expressive instrument to

communicate feelings and ideas in patterns of movement. With subtle gestures and postural

attitudes we show cooperation, give confidence to friends or

display aggression to enemies

RhythmIt is the timing of events on a human scale of the steps of a

dance. Rhythm may also refer to visual presentation, as "timed

movement through space."

Moving in SpaceYou need to be aware of the

space around you. Space is not just empty air but a tangible

element that you move through.

BreathingBreathing is crucial to dance.

Not only does it bring oxygen to the body but it also gives your

movements fluency and harmony. This gives a more emotional,

organic look to a dance.