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What is Performance Art?
Researching Other Performance Artists
Performance Art vs. Entertainment & Performing Arts
Pick a Performance Art Concept
Stay Current With Your Performance Art Piece
Costumes in Performance Art
Use the Five Senses in Performance Art
Use Props in Performance Art
Rehearsing Performance Art
Collaboration in Performance Art
Writing Ideas for Performance Art
How To Be Outrageous in Performance Art
Resources for Performing Artists
How To Get Free Stuff if You Are In The Arts
Choose a Venue for Performance Art
How To Produce a Performance Art Event
Make Your Performance Art Better
Working With Makeup in Performance Art
Network With Other Performance Artists
How To Create a Performance Artist Persona
Performance art is conceptual, usually visual art that involves bringing a concept to an audience. Learn t… More
Performing arts grants are available to schools that need money to fund programs in music, theater, dance … More
The beginning of every performance should get the audience's attention right away. Learn some tips on how … More
There are many ways to capture the attention of an audience at the beginning of a performance. Learn about… More
Network and make contact with performance artists to support each other and build community in the arts. L… More
Try the Material for the Arts (MFTA) website to get free stuff for your performance art. Artists stick tog… More
When pursuing a dance scholarship, begin preparing a dance career early, maintain a good grade point avera… More
Most colleges and universities have a theater department, but many of the best schools are in New York and… More
Theater is both fun and deadly serious, hard work and delightful play, as rewarding as the effort we are … More
If singing, dancing and acting is your game, you might want to try your hand at a college musical theater … More
Even performance artists are part of an artistic tradition and learn from history. Learn to be a performan… More
Improv games such as performance art are great for stretching your imagination and comedy skills. Here is … More
You've decided you want to get a graduate degree in music--a process that can be difficult but exciting. B… More
You're the star of your hip-hop class and a prima ballerina, but when it comes to musical theater you don'… More
Learn tips and techniques on how to better prepare for your audition in this free video clip.… More
Summary: Performance art is conceptual, usually visual art that involves bringing a concept to an audience. Learn to be a performance artist in this free conceptual art video.
Athena Reich is a professional musician, actress, artist, singer, songwriter and coach for all of the above. She is based in New York City. Reich has released four CDs, toured...read more
When we think of the theater, one image before all others comes to mind: two iconic masks side by side, one happy and the other sad. These masks represent the facade of acting, the range of human emotion, the masks we all where, and/or a host of other interpretations. Performance artists take the idea of theater, conceptual art, and visual art to make a new critical art. A culture gives away its opinion of human subjectivity in the way it constructs its masks, and a persona is a kind of mask worn by many pop or performance artists. The masks of Carnival are also complicated social constructions that both celebrate and reinforce boundaries at the same time.
In this free performance art video series, accomplished performance artist and art coach Athena Reich teaches you all about performance art. Athena covers what makes performance art different from performing arts and entertainment, making of art something that has a thesis and a concept. Athena will gives you tips on finding support, networking with other artists, producing performance art events, and more professional areas. She will also help you with the art itself, helping you decide on a concept, props, costumes, rehearsing, and makeup. It is all here.
"This is all about Performance Art. What is Performance Art? Is it music? Is it theatre? Is it Visual Arts? Well, it's all of that and it's none of that. Does it involve props? Is it gimmiky? It's all of that and it's none of that. Performance Art basically comes from the Visual Art tradition, it's conceptual art but it adds theatre, movement, music, props, visual arts, video, multi-media, you name it, it can do it. Performance Art is where you can do, basically, whatever you want as long as you have a concept. I mean, Performance Art is freedom. Freedom for your soul, freedom for expression, you can do anything if you are a Performance Artist. And in this series, we're going to break it down, step by step so that you can create your own Performance Art piece."
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