Performing arts Performing arts Acrobatics (from Greek Akros, high and bat, walking) is one of the performing arts. Acrobatics involves difficult feats of balance, agility, and coordination. Most things in this athletic category need a lot practice to do, and often need to be worked up to, doing similar but easier versions of the act first before trying the end result. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acrobatics"
AHDS Performing Arts supports research, learning and teaching in the areas of music, dance, theatre and radio, film & TV with high quality and dependable digital resources. ...more on Wikipedia about "AHDS Performing Arts"
A bedtime story is a traditional form of storytelling, where a fictional story is told to a child to prepare them for sleep. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bedtime story"
A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief and uncredited appearance in a play, or by extension, in works in other performing arts such as films and television. Such a role need not be played by an actor: short appearances by film directors, politicians, athletes, and other celebrities are not unusual. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cameo appearance"
Casa da Música (Portuguese for House of Music) is a major concert hall space in Porto designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. It was built as part of Porto's project for European Culture Capital in 2001 but was only finished in the first half of 2005 and immediately became a icon in the city. ...more on Wikipedia about "Casa da Música"
Founded in Los Angeles, California in 1982, the Casting Society of America (CSA) is a professional society of about 350 casting directors for film, television, and theatre in Australia, Canada, England, Italy, and the United States. The society is not to be confused with an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E. which many casting directors have urged their peers to choose as their union. ...more on Wikipedia about "Casting Society of America"
A character actor is an actor who predominantly performs supporting parts, often in similar roles throughout the course of a career. While some actors aspire to leading man or leading lady status, many notable actors have had enduring careers in less prominent, but important and memorable character parts. Character roles run the gamut from bit parts to secondary leads. ...more on Wikipedia about "Character actor"
A circus is most commonly a traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts and the word also describes the performance that they give. A circus is held in a oval or circular arena with tiered seating around its circumference; in the case of traveling circuses this location is most often a large tent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Circus"
Digital art is art created on a computer in digital form. Digital art can be purely computer-generated, such as fractals, or taken from another source, such as a scanned photograph, or an image drawn using vector graphics software using a mouse or graphics tablet. The term is usually reserved for art that has been non- trivially modifed by a computing process (such as a computer program, microcontroller or any electronic system capable of interpreting an input to create an output); digitized text data and raw audio and video recordings are not usually considered digital art in themselves, but can be part of a larger project. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital art"
Digital theatre is a hybrid art form, gaining strength from theatre’s ability to facilitate imagination and create human connections, and digital technology’s ability extend the reach of communication and visualization. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital theatre"
Ethnic stereotypes in popular culture involve a stereotypical representation of the typical characteristics of a members of an ethnic group in music, literature, print media, film and the performing arts that is often false or over-simplified. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ethnic stereotypes in popular culture"
Since the beginning of the Dadaism in the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich in 1916, many artists have resorted to extreme performance art as a critique of contemporary consumer culture. Some resort to using bodily fluids such as blood, faeces and urine. Other times they resort to self mutilation. In the 1960s and 1970s extreme performance was elevated to a movement with the Viennese Actionists. In recent times there has been a resurgence in extreme performance as a response to the increasing alienation some artists feel in the face of today's technological advances. ...more on Wikipedia about "Extreme performance art"
A group of pre-Vaudevillian acrobats founded in the early 1840s, the Hanlon-Lees were world-renowned practitioners of "entortillation" (an invented word based upon the French term entortillage, which translates to "twisting" or "coiling") – that is, tumbling, juggling, and an early form of "knockabout" comedy (later popularized by such groups as the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges). The troupe consisted of the six Hanlon brothers and their mentor, established acrobat Professor John Lees. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hanlon-Lees"
A human video is a form of theatre combining music, American Sign Language, Modern Dance and drama. A human video consists of a song (usually by a popular singer or group) played over loudspeakers while actors use rhythmic physical movement (gestures and other movements of the limbs and body) to communicate joy, exultation, sadness, anger, and often the passion of Jesus of Nazareth to a given audience. Their movements should demonstrate both a story and the theme of the song being played. The story can be either implicit in the words of the song or a story written independently of the original artist's meaning. ...more on Wikipedia about "Human video"
The term living statue is often used to refer to a type of mime artist who poses like a statue or mannequin, usually with realistic statue-like makeup, sometimes for hours at a time. This is an art that requires a great deal of patience and physical stamina. ...more on Wikipedia about "Living statue"
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is a New York City performance venue, best known for slam poetry, but also presenting theater, stand-up comedy, Latin jazz, hip-hop performance, and screenplay readings. The café is a non-profit organization. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nuyorican Poets Cafe"
A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which one group of people (the performer or performers) behave in a particular way for another group of people (the audience). Sometimes the dividing line between performer and the audience may become blurred, as in the example of " participatory theatre" where audience members might get involved in the production. ...more on Wikipedia about "Performance"
The performing arts include theatre, motion pictures, drama, comedy, music, dance, opera, magic and the marching arts, such as brass bands, etc. Artists who participate in these arts are called performers, including actors, comedians, singers, dancers, and musicians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Performing arts"
A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. The adaptability of performing arts centers differentiate them from concert halls, opera houses or theatres. ...more on Wikipedia about "Performing arts center"
The Performing Arts Training Center was opened by world-renowned African American dancer Katherine Dunham in 1967 in East St. Louis, Illinois. ...more on Wikipedia about "Performing Arts Training Center"
In the performing arts, a period piece is a work set in a particular era. This informal term covers all countries, all periods and all genres. It may be as long and general as the medieval era or as limited as one decade, the Roaring Twenties, for example. ...more on Wikipedia about "Period piece"
Proletcult Theatre is a Russian theatrical tradition that was concerned with the powerful expression of ideological content as political propaganda. ...more on Wikipedia about "Proletcult Theatre"
The property master is an artistic and organizational employee in a film, television or theatrical production who is responsible for buying, acquiring and/or manufacturing any props needed for a production. The property master works with other members of the production managing the physical appearance of the stage or set, for example they might work with the script supervisor to maintain set continuity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Property master"
Shilparatna is a classical text on traditional South Indian representational-performing arts. It is particularly influential in painting and theatrical performance. It was authored by Srikumara in 16th century A.D. In this the word Shilpa (sculptural) Ratna (Gems) is used as a broad term embodying artistic forms that either uses the body as a medium of expression (like Dance, Drama or Dance-Drama) or that which represents the body as an expression (like Sculptures and mural arts). It ranks only after the Natya Shastra and the Abhinaya Darpana as a text of fundamentals on the performing arts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shilparatna"
Show business is a vernacular term for the business of entertainment. It tends to refer to the agents, managers, production and distribution companies that are in the business of entertainment; it can also include the artists and performers involved. It applies to all aspects of live 'shows', from cinema to television to theater to music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Show business" Things go better with http://www.shortopedia.com.
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