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Types
of performing arts:
Music as an academic discipline
mainly focuses on two career paths, music performance (focused
on the orchestra and the concert hall) and music education
(training music teachers). Students learn to play instruments,
but also study music theory, musicology, history of music
and composition. In the liberal arts tradition, music is also
used to broaden skills of non-musicians by teaching skills
such as concentration and listening.
Theatre or theater (Greek "theatron",
??at???) is the branch of the performing arts concerned with
acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations
of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle —
indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts.
In addition to the standard narrative dialogue style, theatre
takes such forms as classical Indian dance, Chinese opera,opera,
ballet, Illusion, mime, kabuki, mummers' plays, and pantomime.
Dance (from
Old French dancier, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers
to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented
in a social, spiritual or performance setting.
Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication
(see body language) between humans or animals (bee dance,
mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (the leaves danced
in the wind), and certain musical forms or genres.choreography
is the art of making dances, and the person who does this
is called a choreographer.
Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social,
cultural, aesthetic artistic and moral constraints and range
from functional movement (such as Folk dance) to codified,
virtuoso techniques such as ballet. In sports, gymnastics,
figure skating and synchronized swimming are dance disciplines
while Martial arts 'kata' are often compared to dances.
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