Performing Arts Essay

She was just as excited as I was when I told her. She then made it her duty to find me a piano teacher and since then I have switched my instructors but my love and passion has remained the same. My mom noticed how fascinated i was with music and art but most importantly creativity. She thought that theatre would be right up my alley. I was then signed up

the team of captain of a tennis team I joined by mistake. In that sense, I was a legitimate musician/athlete and I didn’t realize the responsibility hung on my shoulders. Later into the school year, I learned my music teacher signed me up for a performing arts program where I would travel and live on the Radford University campus and learn from world renowned musicians for four weeks during the summer. I then went through the rigorous application process of hunting down teacher recommendations, writing

Bibliography Podcast Topic: The vocal style used in the Traditional Korean Art form of P’ansori. Annotated Bibliography Source 1: Willoughby, Heather. 2000. ‘The Sound of Han: P’ansori, Timbre and a Korean Ethos of Pain and Suffering,’ Yearbook for Traditional Music 32: 17-30. Source: Journal Article This article discusses the notion of pain and suffering, known as ‘Han’, and how it is expressed in the Traditional Art form of P’ansori. The sentiment of ‘Han’ is explored in relation to the timbre

Carolina Shakespeare Festival. It started out as a small theatre company devoted to producing the world's most classic shows. Their goal is to engage the art and discipline of theatre to educate and inspire not only North Carolina students but the citizens as well. NCShakes still sets the standard high for creative excellence in theater, as well as, arts education in North Carolina. (“Welcome to the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival”) NCShakes has mounted more than 165 professional productions, including

This past week-end, nineteen Dutchman Creek Middle School students attended the SC Junior Thespian Competition in Summerville, SC. After an intense day of performing, competing, and participating in educational student workshops, six of our students emerged as top of their craft and have been invited to attend the National Thespian Competition in Lincoln, Nebraska. They are: • Solo Acting - Benjamin Gregory • Group Acting - Taylor Barber, Ashanti Burris, Kebrionna McCoy • Musical Theatre – Savannah

The singing activity that we have done during the beginning of this semester is still something that I constantly remark on to my peers. Although I was a part of the JROTC Choir and the performing Majorettes group at my high school, I never took a shot at singing solo or taking the lead during the entire four years. Yet, I managed to sing "If You're Happy and You Know It" in front of an entire class of strangers that I've barely known and

I was really excited about the afternoon performance I was attending at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. This is essentially because I have always been obsessed with fairy tales and getting the chance to see one in action before my eyes was something to die for. Once Upon A Mattress centers around the “ ‘shy’ Winnifred the Woebegone” who takes her chance at marrying Dauntless the Drab. However, she has to get through the tests prepared by the overbearing Queen Aggravain. In short

I went to see STOMP at the Fox Theatre in downtown St. Louis. Sometimes called the “Fabulous Fox,” it was once a movie theatre, but it is now a performing arts center with a proscenium stage environment that boasts the most ornate and profoundly beautiful decorations that I’ve ever seen in a theatre. Sitting down in my seat in the center of the house, on the floor, I was unsure of what I was about to see. I was glad I didn’t really have any preconceived ideas about what was going to take place because

floor of the auditorium was filled with people shouting at their top of their lungs. Performing in front of a crowd just fills me with adrenaline and makes me forget about the world. It's almost as if I’m free even though I have a choreography to follow. Ever since I was a little kid I was always in love with the arts. I would always draw, color, and paint something. My favorite class in elementary class was art and I wanted to be an artist at that time.. As time went by I changed my mind after

visual enjoyment, and the beautiful music gives them a fresh acoustic experience. “Legally Blonde” is presented by Performance Riverside and RCC Fine & Performing Arts. It is directed and choreographed by Roger Castellano, and the musical director is Dennis Castellano. I went to watch this great show, which was performed at RCC’s Landis Performing Arts Center, on September 27,2014 at 2 p.m. I would like to comment on this musical in three ways: the plot, the design, and the acting. First of all, audience