The performing arts are all those artistic manifestations that have been created to be performed on stage. When we talk about performing arts, we usually refer mainly to theatre and dance. However, there are more exciting disciplines besides these artistic expressions.
Performing Arts Description
The performing arts are a living and ephemeral art, since to be considered as such they must meet three essential elements: performance, stage and audience.
Performing arts can also be considered as a degree that can be studied at a university level. In it fundamental subjects are taught in order to understand and reflect on this artistic phenomenon, but also for students to train themselves as performers or cultural managers.
Students of the ESAEM Degree in Dramatic Art and Performing Arts
Characteristics of the Performing Arts
The means of expression of the performing arts are quite varied, and can range from words and action to visual and sound resources. All these media, in harmonious combination, merge to produce an aesthetic experience.
Others of its most relevant characteristics are the following ones:
- There must be a space in which to develop the plot, and an audience to watch.
- It almost invariably has actors, stage, audience and objects.
They integrate many people with different backgrounds, who will have responsibilities in the staging of the performance, according to their specialty. - Any art form that involves staging can be considered performing art.
The performing arts are appreciated with greater sensory perception than the visual or acoustic arts on their own, as they involve all the spectator’s senses.
Students of the ESAEM Degree in Dramatic Art and Performing Arts
What performing arts are there?
Three main disciplines are performed on stage: theatre, dance and music. These in turn are subdivided into many others, such as: opera, musical theatre, puppet shows, circus, recitals, etc.
The most representative ones are described below:
Dance
Dance is the art of expressing, through rhythmic body movements, generally accompanied by music: ideas, concepts, sensations, feelings, stories, etc.
There are different types of dance: we could mention classical, contemporary, folkloric, modern, lyrical, jazz, street style, etc. Each with many genres that vary according to the region and culture. In ESAEM we teach the professional degree in dance, if you want to develop your career in dance, do not hesitate to ask for more information.
Students of the ESAEM Degree in Dramatic Art and Performing Arts
Dance is a universal language in itself that does not require words, but expressiveness in the movements, being one of the oldest manifestations created by the human being.
Theatre
Theatre is nothing more than the art of representing stories, situations and human conflicts through actors, in front of an audience. Its basic elements are text, acting, scenery and direction. You can learn all of them in our dual degree in Dramatic Arts and Performing Arts.
Mime performance at ESAEM Awards Gala
It is one of the most widespread and important performing arts in history, due to its ability to convey a message through the staging of a story, whether real or fictional. Theatre may include other arts such as singing, dancing and literature.
Music
Music is an art itself, but it is also a performing art. It is one of the most complex aesthetic forms that exist due to the fact that it makes possible through sounds made with different instruments to produce symphonies of varying complexity and length.
Music combines and organizes a set of sounds according to the principles of melody, harmony and rhythm. All this to transmit sensations and feelings to the listener, providing an aesthetic experience.
Musical shows
Musical shows are considered to be musical genres that are performed in a staged manner, for example, opera and musical theatre. Today, however, music per se has been resized to encompass a stage show in its own.
Performance
Improvisations or prepared acts that occur in the midst of the public, in a street or public place are considered to be performance.
Students of the ESAEM Degree in Dramatic Art and Performing Arts
This singular aspect of the performing arts is not quite well defined, so it could even be considered part of other artistic manifestations such as visual arts or cinema.
Circus
Circus arts include unconventional stagings, focused on the entertainment of the public. They are the heritage of the Roman circus, to which aesthetically pleasing and less aggressive elements have been incorporated, but which maintain a certain character of risk or magic.
Acrobatic performance at ESAEM Awards Gala
Do you want to study performing arts?
Studying performing arts involves a lot of dedication and passion on your part. But it also requires training that integrates all the theoretical knowledge with practical experience.
Our school is known for its specialization in performing arts: dance, drama, singing and musicals. We have facilities for each specialty, highly qualified teachers with extensive experience in each and every one of the arts we teach. Consult our artistic academic offers to learn about all the possibilities.
Students of the ESAEM Degree in Dramatic Art and Performing Arts
At ESAEM all teachers are active working professionals who combine teaching with their work in television, cinema and theatre, especially musicals. Our school mentors such as Antonio Banderas, Rosalía, Javier Quintas (director in “La casa de papel” among other blockbusters) and Ricard Reguant are some of the teachers who also put their knowledge and experience at the service of our students. Artistic training is focused on developing high-level work in both theatrical and audiovisual media.
Therefore ESAEM collaborates with the most relevant institutions and production companies of the national and international scene, such as The Film Academy for the production of the Goya Awards show, or audiovisual corporations that shoot series broadcast on Netflix and television channels. The students of our school are continuously called for casting by the most prestigious directors, so that the most talented ones are already working in television series, films or musicals in Spain or beyond our borders.
Antonio Banderas, ESAEM mentor, receives the ESAEM Performing Arts Award 2017.
We invite you to know what our school can offer you, if your dream is to be part of the world of performing arts.
