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unique experiences of live theatre correct answers -in person (live) -audiences heart beat sync up with each other -audience and performer are symbiotic (respond to each others energy) -physical space affects the experience of show -seating changes how you experience theatre what is live? co...

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unique experiences of live theatre correct answers -in person (live)
-audiences heart beat sync up with each other
-audience and performer are symbiotic (respond to each others energy)
-physical space affects the experience of show
-seating changes how you experience theatre

what is live? correct answers -theatre = in person
-tv/digital performance = real time
-mediated = watching theatre performance thats not in person (ex. national theatre live)

professional for profit theatre (broadway) correct answers business, make money show by show,
people invest in it and want return of that money

professional non-profit theatre (regional theatre) correct answers all money goes back to
organization, they pay actors, directors, etc.
-seasonal pass (more risks)

community theatre correct answers amateur, non-profit theatre that provides an opportunity for
the non-professional to take an active part in all phases of theatre from acting to design, have fun
and make art

site specific theatre correct answers -event/play takes place i a location thats not a theatre, but
somehow related to the story
-creates immersive experiences for audience

performance art correct answers -blending of theatre, visual art, music/sound, dance, movement
-sometimes in theatre, sometimes in a museum, sometimes somewhere else

"global" theatre correct answers -problematic and Eurocentric
-not from western art form, commonly used
-remember: tv, theatre, and film are all very different

visual arts correct answers -primary characteristics: sight and touch
-composition is frozen and constant

literary arts correct answers stuff that written down, "see" in your mind as you take in the
language

arts relationship to time and space correct answers -spatial art:art that take up space, exists in
space (ex. architecture)
-temporal art: art moves through time, not physical (ex. music)

, performance arts correct answers -theatre, dance, art
-often both temporal and spatial
-requires creators and interpreters
-requires audience

elements of theater correct answers -audience, performers, script/text, director, physical space,
design elements (costumes, scene, lighting)

audience correct answers -theatre audiences energy changes a show each performance
-audience members must have a "willing suspensions of disbelief" to enjoy/engage with the show
(ex. in peter pan with fairy strings)
-audience needs "aesthetic distance" to engage with story

theatre is a collaborative art form correct answers -theatre productions are a product of a lot of
artists working together to produce a single work
-collabs are hard, don't always agree

early theatre correct answers -earliest record of theatre like performance can be traced to ancient
Egypt with religious reenactments of the story of Osiris from 2500 BCE to 550 BCE
-theatre = storytelling and imitation

beginning of western theatre: classic greece correct answers -theatre (performance), drama
(literature) invented in greece, around 5th century BCE (theatre evolves out of religious ritual
-dramatic literature also evolves out of religious ritual and is codifies by Aristotle in The Poetics

honoring dionysus correct answers -theatre and drama evolve out of dithyrambs honoring god
dionysous
-dithyramb = a choral ode (call and response)
-in spring, priests gathered to perform dithyrambs to honor dionysus (people gathered to watch
dithyrambs)

invention of dialogue leads to plays correct answers -thespis (thespian) creates dialogue through
improv with leaders of dithyramb (first actor)
-eventually the invention of dialogue will be used to create tragedy (plays)

city dionysus correct answers -not a city
-originally contest/festival for dithyrrarmbic performance
501 BCE festival reorganized to include a drama contest (tragedy), each dramatist had to submit
3 tragedies and a satyr play
-festival is in spring and honor of dionysus

theatres correct answers outdoors: environment is important to play/audience's experience
-impermanent/permanent structure
-skene building
-orchestra (dancing place): chorus/people performed

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