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Essential Questions: How has architecture facilitated the performing arts? How have visual artists contributed to theater? Where are arts and crafts used in drama and performance? In what areas do the visual and performing arts overlap?
Polykleitos: Theater at Epidauros (Greece, c. 350 BCE)
A Theater in Edo Japan, woodcut, c. 1800
J. L. Charles Garnier: Opera House Paris,
Joern Utzon: Opera House Sydney, Australia,
Frank Lloyd Wright: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, completed in 1959
Frank Gehry: Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles, 2003
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux: Central Park New York,
The Hakone Open-Air Museum Japan, open 1969
Gu Mask, Ivory Coast
Bunraku performance on stage, Japan
Julie Taymor (designer and director): The Lion King New York, opened mid-1990s
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Jane Avril lithographic poster, Paris, 1899
Summerspace (premier in 1958) music – Morton Feldman choreography – Merce Cunningham set and costumes – Robert Rauschenberg
Matthew Barney: Cremaster I: The Goodyear Chorus USA, 1995
Nick Park: Wallace and Gromit claymation film still, early 1990s