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Performing Arts

From Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent
The performing arts use the artist's body, face, and voice to create “live art” that can be enjoyed by an audience. The performing arts require high levels of talent and creativity, requiring great physical and mental exertion during performances. The performing arts express human culture across a broad time span of human history. This entry discusses the nature of performing arts careers as well as the ways in which gifted students are involved in performing arts. The performing arts involve the artist's own body, face, and physical presence. Performing arts include dancing, singing, acting, circus performances, theater, film, opera, music, and acrobatics. The performing arts take place before a live audience, and exist in real life for a finite amount of time. Artists who participate in the performing arts include actors, dancers, musicians, and singers. The Western model of performing arts began during the 6th century BCE in Ancient Greece with Sophocles' tragic plays. During the…
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Full text Article Denver Black Arts Festival

From Cultural Studies: Holidays Around the World
The Denver Black Arts festival, inaugurated in 1987, is an annual cultural exhibition and celebration held each July in Denver City Park West. With more than 100, 000 visitors annually, it is one of the largest African-American cultural events in the western United States. The festival features…
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Full text Article arts

From Events Management Theory and Methods: Dictionary of Event Studies, Event Management and Event Tourism
“also called ‘fine arts’… modes of expression that use skill or imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others. Traditional categories within the arts include literature (including poetry, drama, story, and so on), the visual arts…
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The term denotes both a thoughtful, creative activity in which an object (the artwork, or a part thereof) is interpreted, and a product of that activity, which is something purportedly different from the artwork (an understanding of the artwork, an ability to grasp its artistic value , a disclosure…
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da of 6 Viscount Gage, KCVO, by his 1 w, Hon Imogen Grenfell b. 12 July 1937 Benenden 24 April 1965, Sir Edward Stephen Cazalet, DL, qv ; 2 s, 1 da dir Lumley Cazalet 1967–2002; tstee Glyndebourne Arts Tst 1978–2004; memb Cncl: Friends of Covent Garden 1977–2005 (memb Mgmnt Ctee 1994–2000), RNT Cncl…
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Full text Article Introduction

From African American Almanac
The African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage and Excellence is a thoughtful and focused book that is based on the premise of sharing knowledge, history, and inspiration regarding the African American experience, building on that knowledge with the biographies of individuals who have…
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Full text Article Arts

From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education
The arts traditionally play a major role in the liberal arts education by connecting students to those intangible characteristics that define what it means to be creatively human. The arts refer to a wide variety of disciplines. Some involve the creation of artifacts such as poetry, books, …
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He studied piano, clarinet, and saxophone as a youth; was trained in chemistry (Princeton, Ph.D., 1947); worked in industry (1947–52); taught chemistry at the Univ. of Illinois (1952–58). While at Princeton he had studied oboe and composition (Babbitt, Sessions). In 1957 he collaborated with Leonard…
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Full text Article Juilliard School

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Internationally renowned school of the performing arts in New York, New York, U.S. It has its roots in the Institute of Musical Art (founded 1905) and a graduate school (1924) founded through an endowment from the financier Augustus D. Juilliard (1840–1919). It is now the professional educational…
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Full text Article notation

From Aesthetics A-Z
In Western tradition, the history and development of performing arts such as music and dance is inseparable from the development of the relevant notational systems for performance, and common practice in such arts would be unrecognizable in the absence of notation. Indeed the most significant…
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Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake continues to be among the...
Russia has made major contributions to all fields of the performing arts, including music, dance, theatre, and film, with the late 19th and early 20th centuries standing out as a particularly productive and influential era. MUSIC Before the 18th century, Russian music was dominated by folk and…
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