Contemporary Performing Arts

• Performance art


  Artists conceptualize their act in relation to the minimal props needed to get a concept, idea, or advocacy across to the audience
• Performance art


  • The performance can take place anywhere at any length of time, depending on where and what time it is best compatible with the concept
• In the different Philippine regions, traditional, and folk dances are being reinterpreted into new creative dances performed by members of the community during festivals like the Sinulog in Cebu, and the Dinagyang in Iloilo</b>
• Reinterpreted Philippine folk dances


  • Inspired by folk dances and are blended with contemporary costume design, masks, props, choreography, carriages, higante (paper mâché giants) and music
• Music


  Can penetrate our thoughts, change our mood, stimulate ideas, create a space, or affect us in a positive or negative way
• Listening or making music satisfies man's psychological and emotional needs
• New music genres


  • Pop
  • Emo
  • Post-hardcore
  • Post-rock
• Philippine music


  • Characterized by improvisation, making use of instruments that are not normally used like gongs and bamboo
• Filipino composers


  • Canseco
  • Cayabyab
  • Feliciano
• The films were described to be lacking in quality
• The lack of payment to stimulate greater output
• Hollywood films and other foreign films preferred over local ones
• Directors not to follow traditional techniques, giving rise to a renewed energy and consciousness to making films
• The high definition format came with the digital age
• Filipino independent filmmaker Brillante Mendoza received the Best Director award at Cannes for his film Kinatay in 2009
• Theater arts


  Uniquely use a specific language that applies to visual and auditory elements, media, techniques, and conventions
• Performance


  Based on dramatic text
• Forms of theater

  • Plays
  • Musical
  • Opera
  • Ballet
  • Combination of contemporary forms
• Picture frame stage


  • The performance takes place behind the proscenium opening or frame of the stage
  • The seats of the audience face the stage like the seats in a movie theater facing the screen
  • The stage has three sides where the audience sit and they are arranged in a semi-circle that encloses the stage, which is at the center
  • The fourth side is used as the background
  • The stage is square or rectangular and is usually raised
• Circle stage


  • The stage is the center surrounded by the audience on all four sides
  • The stage may be raised a few feet above the floor, with the audience at a lower level than the stage, or the stage may be on the floor level, with the seats raised on higher levels around it
• Black box theatre


  • They are big empty boxed spaces painted black inside
  • The stage and seating are not fixed and can be altered to accommodate the needs of the play
• Created and found stage


  • This stage space can be any kind of structure that maintains its original architectural elements intact such as lofts, warehouses, gyms, and etc.
• Psychological Realism


  Focuses on the problems of individuals, describing and diagnosing their anguish and joy, ambition, and frustration, their hope and despair
• Social Realism


  Situates and roots individual problems within the larger picture of a class society, reacting to socio-economic-political issues that confronted Filipinos
• Combination of Realistic and Non-realistic styles


  Uses realistic situations and combines them with non-realistic ones
• Brechtian Style


  Named after the playwright Bertolt Brecht, with the intention to appeal to the audience's intellect in presenting moral problems and reflecting contemporary social realities on stage
• Musical Performances


  Uses music and dance heavily in the play
• Documentary Styles


  Used in plays dealing with historical events and persons, also called dula-tula or drama-poem
• The condition of the Philippine film industry throughout the years includes the lack of payment to stimulate greater output, Hollywood films and other foreign films preferred over local ones, and directors not following traditional techniques, giving rise to a renewed energy and consciousness to making films
• The New Wave in Philippine cinema was an established international movement during the 1990s and early 2000s in digital form