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title: "Performing Arts"
description: "7 topics in Arts & Music, in the order they build on each other."
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# Performing Arts

7 topics in Arts & Music, in the order they build on each other.

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- [Dance: Telling a Story Without Words](https://lightmysky.com/learn/arts-and-music/dance-telling-a-story-without-words-mt_JCmUH5GmE9): Dance carries meaning through the body: how big a movement is, how fast, how high, and whether it repeats. A dance can tell a story or show a feeling with no words at all.
- [Playing a Part: Voice, Face and Body](https://lightmysky.com/learn/arts-and-music/playing-a-part-voice-face-and-body-mt_uN2l8k1-Oi): An actor shows who a character is with three tools: how they say the words, what their face does, and how they hold and move their body. The same line can be made kind or cruel by voice alone.
- [Building a Scene: Who Wants What](https://lightmysky.com/learn/arts-and-music/building-a-scene-who-wants-what-mt_CZbWK5gf0v): A scene works when each character wants something and something is in the way. Change what one of them wants and the scene changes, which is why actors and writers start there.
- [Dances People Do: Folk, Social and Stage](https://lightmysky.com/learn/arts-and-music/dances-people-do-folk-social-and-stage-mt_8i89DDjT_v): Some dances are done in a village or a club with everyone joining in, and some are made to be watched from seats. The difference decides who the dance is for and how it is learned.
- [How a Play Gets Made](https://lightmysky.com/learn/arts-and-music/how-a-play-gets-made-mt_vuaFvRSoi2): Between a script and an audience sit a director, a cast, a designer and weeks of rehearsal. Set, lighting, sound and costume are decisions someone made, and each one can be read.
- [Theatre Traditions Around the World](https://lightmysky.com/learn/arts-and-music/theatre-traditions-around-the-world-mt_g9NGWncIy6): Greek amphitheatres, Japanese noh, Indian kathakali and European realism each answer the same question differently: how do you show a story to a crowd. Masks, distance and convention do the work.
- [Watching a Live Performance and Saying Why It Worked](https://lightmysky.com/learn/arts-and-music/watching-a-live-performance-and-saying-why-it-worked-mt_jmRc5JDGTd): A play, a gig or a dance can be described the way a picture can: what the makers chose, what it did to the room, and whether it held. Live work also carries risk, which is part of what an audience comes for.