Popularization of Theatre Workshops and the Use of Multi-Art and Integrated Arts Approaches:
Encouraged Non-theatre artists to create ORIGINAL plays based on their real-life experiences.
Examples:
Tula-Dula, Dula-Tula, The Sabayang Pagbigkas or Choral Poetry OR Rap and Flip-Top
Ordinary Spaces
Spaces like parks, streets, riverbanks, bus stops, and trains that become venues for performances
Theatre transpires for as long as a living experience is created in an environment shaped by the performer or actor and the Spectator or audience
Idea of Dance
In the Philippines, theatre was produced by the Spaniards for social occasions like tertullas or formal parties
Contemporary Dance emerged in Europe and United States at the height of the Industrial Revolution and the decline of Victorian Social Structures from the ballet
In the entertainment industry, The clog and tap dances were introduced in the vaudeville stage
Contemporary Music came about as a new direction in music composition by Western composers
Electronic Music flourished in West German radio and French radio
In USA, Computer music begun and these new compositions were termed "New Music"
Cinema
Art of moving picture.
Recording reality through the technology of the camera, manipulating the sequence, and juxtaposing the recorded images and projecting the pictures upon a screen through a film reel or digital file
Domestic Architecture
Provides shelter and security for the basic physical function of life, involve the family rather than a community
Religious and Sacred Architecture
Churches and mosques which serve as places for worship and shelter for relics and images
Welfare and Educational Buildings
Facilities for education, health, public security, and utilities
Government and State Architecture
Buildings required for the performance of the basic function of the government, such as administration, legislation, and dispensing justice
Recreational Architecture
Facilities that need to "re-create" to refresh or rejuvenate oneself mentally and physically
Commercial and Industrial Architecture
Buildings that meet the principle needs of commerce and industry, such as exchange, transportation, communication, manufacturing, and power production
Cinema was made contemporary in the Philippines because of social realism of Lino Brocka and impressionism of Ishamel Bernal
After the fall of Marcos dictatorship and the revolutionary government of Corazon Aquino, the independent film movement was launched by maverick pictures whose format was video and genre
It's short film opened up possibilities for artistic engagement through film with current technology.
Religions beyond Metro Manila found representation and settings beyond the city became more visible.
example: Cinema Rehiyon
Hybrid art forms
Expand possibilities for experimentation and innovation in contemporary art.
Hybridity:
The blurring of distinct traditional boundaries between artistic media,
Highly stylized windows with sharp incisions shaped like bolts of lighting
Tent-style roofs:
Lightweight tensile structure with dynamic sculptural geometries
Skin and bones aesthetics:
Highlights of internal workings of the buildings in its external
Communication equipment:
Communication tower installed in a building to enhance its vertically and more high-tech look to the structure
Irregular Forms:
Forms that are no longer based on grids or regular solids
Architecture as sculpture:
Freedom from rectangular grid-based design and new materials to form the building
De Honor and the Rigodon Lanceros:
Were performed
Balse, Polka, Mazurka, and Escotis:
Pravelent in the social classes towards the end of Spanish Regime
Jota, Pandango, Habanera, and the Maszurka:
became regionalized
Ballet:
Also brought in Bodabil
Nicanor Abelardo:
Composed like Schoenberg with his violin sonata and sinfoniett
Antonino Buenaventura and Antonio Molina:
Influenced by Debussy's Impressionism
Development of Philippine Contemporary Music:
Premised on the incorporation of native thematic materials, of native indigenous practice, as well as the philosophical theories in Philippine traditional music.
Blurring boundaries, Breaking rules, and Creating Hybrids:
Characterize much artistic work today,
Making meaning in art:
Remains central to artistic practice.
ISADORA DUNCAN PIONEERED THIS IN THE US AND TERMED IT WITH “NEW DANCE”, FREE DANCE OR MODERN Romanticism”