PERFORMING ARTS

Art forms in which artists use their body or voice to convey artistic expression as opposed to plastic arts in which
artists use clay metal paint and other materials to create physical art object
The first recorded use of the term performing arts was in 1711.
TYPES OF PERFORMING ARTS
Include dance, music, opera, theatre, magic, Spoken word, circus arts and musical theatre
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.
Ballet Theatre 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.
In addition to the standard narrative dialogue style of plays, theatre takes such forms as plays, musicals, opera,
ballet, illusion, mime, classical Indian dance, kabuki mummers' plays improvisational theatre, stand-up comedy
pantomime, and non-conventional or art house theatre.
Performers often adapt their appearance such as with costumes and stage makeup, etc.
There is also a specialized form of fine art in which the artists perform their work live to an audience.
This is called performance art.
Most performance art also involves some form of plastic art, perhaps in the creation of props.
Dance was often referred to as a plastic art during the Modern dance era.
DANCE
Is a French term dancier, which refers to human movement.
Used as a form of expression presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting.
Used to describe methods of
non- verbal communication between humans or motion in inanimate objects
Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person responsible for the success of any presentation is called
a choreographer.
HISTORY OF PERFORMING ARTS
Introduced during the 6th century BC,
The Classical period of performing arts began in Greece
Introduced by the tragic poets by the name Sophocles.
These poets wrote plays in which they incorporated dance.
After this, the Hellenistic period began through the representations of comedy
The 6th century AD
The Western performing arts had been largely ended
Then the Dark Ages began, between the 9th century and 14th century
The performing art in the West was limited to religious historical enactments and morality plays, organized by the
Church in celebration of holy days and other important events.
RENAISSANCE PERIOD
Performing arts during the 15th century
Revival which began in Italy and was introduced throughout Europe .
The dance were performed by the named Domenico da Piacenza and was credited with the first use of the term
ballo (in De Arte Saltandi et Choreas Ducendi instead of danza (dance) for his baletti or balli. The term eventually
became Ballet. The first Ballet per se is thought to be Balthasar de Beaujoyeulxs Ballet Comique de la Reine(1581).
The mid-16th century commedia dell'arte became popular in Europe.
During this period,
The Elizabethan masque, featuring music, dance and elaborate costumes was introduced .
Professional theatrical companies in England. William Shakespeares plays in the late 16th century developed from
this new class of professional performance.