theater and performance art on stage and on street Flashcards
It includes dance, music, opera, theatre, and musical theatre, magic, illusion, mime, spoken word, puppetry, circus arts, performance arts, recitation, and public speaking
Performance Arts
Theater or theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors and actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event.
Theater Art
Main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented in an interrelated sequence
Plot
A person in a novel, play, movie who perform actions.
Character
The action or process of thinking. Refers to the main idea or concept that the characters dramatize
Thought
Refers to the speaking, singing, and dancing in a performance. Such as background music, instrumental accompaniment and incidental songs.
Song or Music
Refers to the writer’s or speaker’s distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression in a poem or story
Diction
A body of words and the systems for their use
Language
an event or scene regarded in terms of its visual impact. something exhibited to view as unusual, notable, or entertaining, especially an eye-catching or dramatic public display
spectacle
a person who supervises the actors, camera crew, and other staff for a movie, novel, television program or similar production.
Director
it is also known as dramatist, a person who writes plays. they tell stories through the words and actions of the characters.
Playwright
a building or space in which a performance may be given to before an audience.
theater space
Theatron means
a place of seeing
what are the 4 basic theatre stages
Proscenium
Arena or Circle Stage
Thrust Stage
Created and Found
It was the common form of theatre building of 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The arch acts like a picture frame through which the action can be seen.
Proscenium Stage