PERFORMING ARTS: CPAR

Performing Arts

These are forms of art presented live to an audience, using the human body, voice, or inanimate objects to convey artistic expression.

Performing Arts

These include music, dance, theatre, and other creative forms that are enacted or performed in front of an audience.

Music

It is an arrangement of sounds, combining vocal or instrumental sounds, to create a continuous and unified composition for emotional expression.

Music

It is a form of art that utilizes organized sounds to create a desired effect, often evoking emotions and conveying meaning through rhythm, melody and harmony.

Dynamics

How loud or soft the music is

Harmony

The instrument that supports the melody with chords

Form

The order and the arrangement of the parts of the music

Melody

A series of pitches that makes a tune

Tonality

The overall sound of the music as pleasant or unpleasant

Timbre

The unique sound quality of an instrument or sound

Texture

The layers of sound, how sparse or dense the music is

Rhythm

How long or short the sound is

Tempo

It describes how fast or slow the music is.

Meter

It refers to the unit of time that is made up of beats or pulses.

Rhythmic Pattern

It is the combination of notes and rest.

Dance

It is an art that involves a series of rhythmic human movements that are deliberately selected to match the speed and rhythm of a piece of music.

Folkdance

It is a dance developed by people to reflect the life of a certain region or country.

Folk Dance

This is a dance that expresses the vernacular or historical culture of a group of people.

Ballet

It is a theatrical dance performed on stage with the use of costumes, music, scenic design, and lighting.

Modern Dance

It is a dance form that emerged during the 20th century that make use of dance styles such as folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing, and sometimes theatrical in nature like ballet.

Aerobic Dance

It is a dance intended to increase one’s

consumption of oxygen over a period of time.

Bodabil Dance

It is an indigenized version of Vaudeville introduced to the Philippines in the 1910s during the American period.

Jazz Dance

It uses African dance techniques like the isolation of individual human body parts, rhythm, and polycentrism.

Polynesian and Tahitian Dance

These are dances that tell the ancient legends and folklore of the Polynesian culture.

Tap Dance

It is a dance which involves tapping with toes and heels to generate rhythmic patterns.

Theater

It is an art form that involves live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event in front of an audience, usually in a particular space, often a stage.

Theater

The performers make use of carefully planned actions or gestures, and speech combined with a song or a music to convey emotions.

Dulang Pahiyang

It is a theater that is not viewed as a separate activity, but as a part of life.

Rituals

These are characterized as a way to communicate with the Gods or spirits, which involves a shaman, usually a babaylan or an albularyo, who calls the spirit and is being possessed by that spirit.

Duplo

This is a poetic joust in speaking and reasoning, in which Balagtasan was derived from.

Bayok

It is a Maranao mimetic joust, whose theme is reliant on the occasion when the joust is being performed.

Balitaw

It is a poetic debate between a man and

a woman.

Dalumbayan ot The People’s Theater

It is considered as the“theater in the

context of social movements.”

Drama Simboliko

It is the allegorical nationalist drama, which began during the American regime and was revived later on during the Marcos regime.

Street Theater

It is presented outside the theater building and without a stage area.

Teatrong Pansimbahan

It is focused on spirituality and is usually performed based on the events implemented by the Church.