Friday, August 29, 2014
WOOHOO! We made it through the
first week and you all have been
Stellar!
Theatre
Explorations
Table Captains: Please collect any
work and put in period tray.
Thank you!
ASTHETIC
1. Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.
"the pictures give great aesthetic pleasure"
•giving or designed to give pleasure through beauty; of pleasing appearance.
noun
noun: aesthetic; plural noun: aesthetics; noun: esthetic; plural noun:
esthetics
2. Set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or
artistic movement.
AESTHETIC

appreciative of the beautiful
Art requires…
1. Artist 2. Object 3. Audience
Seven Forms of Art
1)
Music
Who is this artist?
Duke Ellington
What kind of music is he
famous for playing?
Jazz Music
Seven Forms of Art
2) Theatre
What is the name of
this Broadway musical?
Wicked
Seven Forms of Art
3) Dance
What kind of dance is
Savion Glover famous for?
Tap Dance
Seven Forms of Art
4) Painting
Who painted Stary Night?
Vincent Van Gogh
Seven Forms of Art
5) Sculpture
What is the name of this sculpture?
The Thinker
by Auguste Rodin
Seven Forms of Art
6) Literature
Seven Forms of Art
7) Architecture
What architect designed the
Guggenheim Museum?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Where is it located?
New York City
Theatre is the most COMPLEX art!

It is collaborative –
many people have to work together to create it
•
It combines many other arts
•
List all of the other arts that theatre
combines….
Theatre uses…
Music – In Musicals
 Literature – Scripts
 Dance – Choreography
 Sculpture – Sets and Props
 Painting – Sets and Backdrops
 Architecture – Set Design

What is theatre?
1)
A Building – the place where “something
is seen”

Greek word theatron means
“the seeing place
What is theatre?
2) An Activity – the company of players who
perform a work of drama in a space and
to an audience
What is it called when actors
come out to bow at the end
of a show?
Curtain Call
What is the name of this show?
Fiddler on the Roof
What is theatre?
3) An Occupation - the professional activity
of producing a work of dramatic art
What is the name of the
musical pictured here?
The Lion King
Performing Art

Theatre is considered a performing art
because it requires human beings
performing in front of an audience.
Tell me the two other performing arts.
Music and Dance
Imitator

Acting is creating alternative realities using
imaginary circumstances.
Only in this way will you begin to understand the definition of real acting,
which is “to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances”.
Imagination

Even though theatre is supposed to
imitate life, the audience must understand
that it is not real. The audience must
have a “willing suspension of
disbelief.”
4th Wall

In the theatre there is something called the 4th
wall, this is the imaginary wall that
separates the actors from the audience.
Why do people go to the theatre?

Entertainment

To Escape Boring
Everyday Life

To be Educated

Social Element
What’s in a name?
 Drama
– the script
 Theatre
– the performance or
production
Theatre vs. Film
 Happens
in
Real Time
 3D
 Audience is
Present
 Requires
Imagination
 Often
taped
 2D
 Audience
is not
present
 Does not
require
imagination
Journal 9/25/13
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What is aesthetically pleasing to you?
Pick something that you think is beautiful
and describe it. Try to be as descriptive
as possible so that I can picture it in my
mind clearly after reading your paragraph.

Is the thing that you described art?
Explain to me why or why not.