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• Asian Theater - usually involves storytelling, dancing, music, and mimes. It focuses on performance rather than a specific text.
• Theatrical performance - is also done as a form of entertainment, a cultural or social event, a religious and political gatherings, or as a part of ethical education.
• Peking Opera - gained popularity through the simplicity of its form with few singing and voice patterns that allowed anyone to sing arias themselves.
• Aria - it is divided into Erhuang and Xipi Varieties.
• Fixed - tune Melody or Huapai - it refers to the instrumental tunes that used a wider range than the Arias.
• Percussion Pattern - it provides context to the music in ways like the fixed-tune melodies.
• Kabuki Theater -usually contains music, drama, dances, wild costumes, and intense choreography.
• Nori Technique - it implies a very delicate capacity of following the rhythm of the shamisen which is a popular Japanese stringed instrument.
• Yakuhari Technique - it refers to an artful delivery of poetical text that is written in Japanese metrical form with seven and five syllables alternately.
• Ipponchoshi - also known as the continous pattern, it is used in building speeches up and to an explosive climax which requires excellent breath control.
• Wayang - is a Japanese word which means theater.
• Kulit - means skin or leather.
• Wayang Kulit - a form of shadow puppetry in which the puppets are made of cloth and are manipulated by a single performer.
• Festivals - are celebrations or special events that last over a period of time which reflect the traditions and culture of one place or community.
• Spring Festival - it is commonly known as Chinese New Year. It is the longest and most important festival in China.
• Dragon Dance - it refers to a traditional dance and performance in China and one of the highlights of the Chinese New Year aside from spectacular fireworks display.
• Taiko Drum Festival - it is one of the most exciting summer festivals of Japan that features the best taiko groups.
• A taiko drummer is called - Uchite.
• Kodo - it is one of the examples of taiko group that travels all over Japan, the US, and Europe to perform.
• Happi - it is a baggy sleeved short cotton jacket usually in plain blue or black with a symbol printed on it. It is tied with an obi around the waist.
• Hachimaki - it is a white headband with a symbol printed on it.
• Tabi - it is a shoe with the big toe seperated.
• Balinese Dance Festival - this festival involves dances rooted in the ancient traditions of the people in the island of Bali in Indonesia.
• Sky Lantern Festival - it refers to a special event in Thailand celebrated every full moon of the 2nd month of the traditional Thai Calendar called Lanna.
• Loy Krathong Festival - this festival is celebrated every full moon of the 12th month of Thai Calendar. It originated from the ancient practice of paying respect to the water spirits.
• Loy - means floating.
• Krathong - means a lotus shaped vessel that can float on water.
• Saludo - it means to bow or to give respect/honor.
• Padyak - it refers to stomping or tapping your one foot while the weight of the body is on another foot.
• Bend - it means to move your body or parts of the body around a wide axis.
• Step - it involves transferring your weight from one foot to another.
• Hop - it means to move in a quicky springy leap.
• Skip - is the combination of step and hop in one count.
• Slide - it involves gliding over the floor with one foot leading.
• Gateway drugs - are substances that lead a person into using more dangerous and illegal drugs that can be developed into addiction and dependency.
• Smoking - it involves burning a substance and inhaling the smoke produced in the combusition process to be tasted and absorbed in the bloodstream.
• Cigarette - it is a substance produced from dried leaves of tobacco plant that has been rolled into a rice paper or other synthetic wrapping material to create a round cylinder.
• Nicotine - it is a widely used stimulant and potent parasympathomimetic alkaloid that comes from the nightshade family of plants.
• Alcohol - it is sometimes referred by its chemical name ethanol that is considered as one of the oldest and most common recreational substances.