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 Table Captains: Please collect any work and put in period tray. Thank you!

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.

AESTHETIC appreciative of the beautiful

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

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

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

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

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

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

Seven Forms of Art 6) Literature

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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”. 

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.”

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

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

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

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

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.