1. Table Captains: Please collect any work and put in period tray.
Friday, August 29, 2014
WOOHOO! We made it through the
first week and you all have been
Stellar!
Theatre
Explorations
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Thank you!

2. ASTHETIC 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.

3. AESTHETIC
appreciative of the beautiful

4. 1. Artist 2. Object 3. Audience
Art requires…
1. Artist 2. Object 3. Audience

5. Seven Forms of Art Music Who is this artist? Duke Ellington
What kind of music is he
famous for playing?
Jazz Music

6. Seven Forms of Art 2) Theatre What is the name of
this Broadway musical?
Wicked

8. Seven Forms of Art 3) Dance What kind of dance is
Savion Glover famous for?
Tap Dance

9. Seven Forms of Art 4) Painting Who painted Stary Night?
Vincent Van Gogh

10. Seven Forms of Art 5) Sculpture What is the name of this sculpture?
The Thinker
by Auguste Rodin

11. Seven Forms of Art
6) Literature

12. Seven Forms of Art 7) Architecture What architect designed the
Guggenheim Museum?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Where is it located?
New York City

13. 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….

14. Theatre uses… Music – In Musicals Literature – Scripts
Dance – Choreography
Sculpture – Sets and Props
Painting – Sets and Backdrops
Architecture – Set Design

15. What is theatre? A Building – the place where “something is seen”
Greek word theatron means
“the seeing place

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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”. 

20. 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.”

21. 4th Wall
In the theatre there is something called the 4th wall, this is the imaginary wall that separates the actors from the audience.

22. Why do people go to the theatre?
Entertainment
To Escape Boring Everyday Life
To be Educated
Social Element

23. What’s in a name? Drama – the script
Theatre – the performance or production

24. Theatre vs. Film Happens in Real Time 3D Audience is Present
Requires Imagination
Often taped 2D
Audience is not present
Does not require imagination

25. Journal 9/25/13
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.