Performing Arts

  • Performing Arts is the exceptional capability or potential in forms of creative activity in which artists use their voices, bodies or inanimate objects to convey artistic expression to an audience.

Students with performing arts potential are keenly aware of others and observes details of gestures, facial expressions, and vocal qualities. They effectively convey mood and emotion through body language, facial expressions, and verbal communication. Performers enjoy improvising and spontaneously creating unique solutions to theatrical problems or situations, as well as communicating and performing with personal expression/artistic voice. Students communicate and perform with imaginative ideas, and capture the attention of the audiences while performing.

  • Affirmations and Cautions
  • Individual students may not manifest all of the characteristics of giftedness within their area of talent.
  • If a curriculum is too regimented and narrow, there may not be opportunities for students to demonstrate their true potential or grow within their talent area in a typical way.
  • Beware of excluding students based on behavior. Characteristics of giftedness within any area may manifest in ways that are not considered positive by others.
  • A student’s abilities and/or potential may manifest in a single area of emphasis or multiple areas. No area of emphasis within the realm of performing arts should be excluded due to its purpose, intent, and/or social/cultural acceptance/implication.

Areas of Emphasis Within Performing Arts

Possible areas of emphasis for those with a suspected strength in performing arts may include but are not limited to:

  • Theater
    • Plays
    • Musicals
    • Opera
    • Illusion
    • Mime
    • Kabuki
    • Mummers plays
    • Pantomime
    • Improvisation
    • Stand up comedy
    • Vaudeville
  • Spoken word
  • Puppetry
  • Circus Arts
  • Performance Art
  • Stage Craft & Design
  • Directing/Production

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