Performing arts

Performing arts

Referring to those forms of art which make use of the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium.

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Performing arts; Theatre

Originally called "tableaux drapes", but now used to mean any curtain or drapery defining the acting area. You'll often see them referred to in the notes contained in working ...

limelight

Performing arts; Theatre

Originally derives from the lime, or calcium flare, first used in the early 19th Century, and which gave off a brilliant white light primarily used for illuminating the chief ...

melodrama

Performing arts; Theatre

Originally referred to popular plays in the late 18th and 19th centuries featuring incidental music. Generally involved gothic settings in which virtue triumphed over vice. In the ...

counterweight

Performing arts; Theatre

Originally sandbags, but now more often metal weights used to counterbalance scenery or a drop hung or "flown" from the grid. Has largely replaced hand working, or manually ...

cabaret

Performing arts; Theatre

Originally, a night club type establishment where poets, artists and musicians performed their work. Cabarets had a political impact in France, Germany and Russia in the 1920's ...

mime

Performing arts; Theatre

Originally, mimes were actors in ancient Rome who performed in a popular, spoken form or farcical drama. The emphasis was on character-development rather than plot. It is thought ...

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Performing arts; Theatre

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