Aesthetics in Performing Arts

Aesthetics in Performing Arts Thummachuk Prompuay Department of Performing Arts Ramkhamhaeng University 2018

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Martha Graham

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(Aesthetics) (Beauty) • The philosophy of the beautiful thing • • Baumgaten

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Aesthetic Elements of Dance Flexibility

Energy/Power

Balance

Movement

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Aesthetic Distance

Audiences

Texture

Colour

Physical law of nature

Unity

Form

Music

Meaning

Harmony

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Dancers

Audiences

"Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays." • George Balanchine

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Sense Sign Feeling

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Flexibility

Energy/Power

Balance

Movement

Space

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Aesthetic Distance

Audiences

Texture

Colour

Physical law of nature

Unity

Form

Music

Meaning

Harmony

Aesthetic Perception in Dance

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Art Expression

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The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word

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Aesthetics judgement

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Aesthetic State A Total Timbre

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