The Performing Arts

Performing Arts

Range vocal and instrumental music, dance, and theatre to pantomime, sung verse, and beyond.

Performing Arts

Cultural expressions that reflects human creativity.

Performing Arts

Found in cultural heritage domain.

Drama, Music, Dance

Performance Art Forms

Performance Art Forms

Drama, Music, Dance

Drama

Pantomime, Comedy, Tragedy, Musicals, Film/Television

Music

Instrumental, Opera, Classical, Jazz, Pop music

Dance

Rituals, Folk, Ballet, Contemporary

Elements of a Performance

Time, Space, Performer’s Body, Audience

Time, Space, Performer’s Body, Audience

Elements of a Performance

Time

Ephemeral, fleeting, temporary; be in a specific place at the right time to see a performance.

Space

Be in a specific place to see a performance.

Audience

Since art is a social practice, it communicates.

Vanessa Beecroft (2008)

“A performance needs an audience to exist. The audience becomes the essential element; without it, the performance wouldn't make any progress.”

Performing Arts

Performing Arts or Performance Arts?

Using the body as a tool to create a story. Just like theater, using the body and voice.

Performance Arts

Performing Arts or Performance Arts?

Uses the body and the artist as the object of an artwork.

Rituals, Babaylan/Katalonan

Origin of Performing Arts

Rituals

A religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.

Babaylan/Katalonan

Has the ability to mediate with the spirit world, gifts of healing, foretelling, and insight.

Conservatory of Music 1907

Founded in the same year when CEU was established in 1907.

Ladislao Bonus

• Father of Philippine Opera

• Established the very first opera company in the Philippines in Pandacan, Manila (1887).

Francisco Buencamino

• Grandfather of Filipino Music

• Composed several Tagalog operettas or zarzuelas.

• Taught at CEU and headed its Music department for 30 years.

Felipe Padilla de Leon

• Major Philippine composer, conductor, and scholar.

• Translated the Philippine National Anthem from Spanish to Tagalog.

• Payapang Daigdig

Lucio San Pedro

• Composed various hymns and became the local church organist.

• Ugoy ng Duyan

Antonio J. Molina

• Completed the “Triumvirate of Filipino Composers” together with Nicanor Abelardo and Francisco Santiago.

Jovita Fuentes

• One of the greatest Filipino vocal talents as a Soprano.

• The first Filipino International Star in the world of opera.

Francisca Reyes-Aquino

• Folk Dance Pioneer

• Began her research in the 1920s, making trips to remote barrios in Central and Northern Luzon.

• Served as supervisor of Physical Education at the Bureau of Education.

Veladas

Evening in Spanish; Evening formal party with music, dance, and other performances.