First of all without looking below, write “(live) performing arts” in the middle of a blank piece of A3 paper and brainstorm categories, sub-categories and examples of that as a mind map/ spider diagram.
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Use the categories below to organise and expand on your mind map, then brainstorm more sub-categories and examples.
Suggested categories of performing arts
- animal training
- cabaret
- circus skills
- comedy
- dance
- drama/ theatre/ plays
- magic/ illusion(ism)
- mime
- music
- music hall/ variety/ vaudeville
- musical drama/ musical theatre
- people
- performance art
- puppetry
- readings
- street parades
- street performance
- talent shows
- venues/ places
Try to put the examples on the following pages in at least one place on your mind map, then brainstorm more. You can use a dictionary at this stage if you like.
When your teacher stops you, ask about any vocabulary which you couldn’t put on your mind map, working together to think of suitable places each time.
Compare your extra ideas as a class.
Are there any performing arts specific to your country? Where would they fit on the mind map? How would you describe them?
Specific examples of performing arts to add to categories on the mind map
- acrobatics
- am dram
- ambient
- amphitheatre
- ancient Greek drama
- banjo
- baton twirling
- brass band
- breakdance
- Broadway
- burlesque
- busking
- card tricks
- chanson
- cheerleading
- chillout
- Chinese opera/ Beijing opera
- choreographer
- classical ballet
- clowning
- comedy duo/ double act
- contortionists
- court music
- covers band
- dance music/ EDM
- diabolo
- disappearing tricks
- dog tricks
- drag shows
- easy listening
- escapology
- experimental theatre
- farce
- fire eating
- flea circus
- folk dance
- folk music
- fringe theatre
- gig
- happenings
- hip hop dancing
- human pyramid
- improv/ improvisation
- indie/ alternative rock
- interactive theatre
- juggling
- knife throwing
- lasso
- lion training
- lip synching
- live music venue
- living statue
- lute
- marching bands
- Merseybeat
- mind reading
- modern dance/ contemporary dance
- musical
- native classical music
- nativity (play)
- off Broadway
- off off Broadway
- one man band
- one man shows
- open air concert
- opera
- opera house
- operetta
- panto/ pantomime
- plate spinning
- poetry readings/ poetry recitals/ poetry slams
- pop
- rap/ hip hop
- rep/ repertory theatre
- revue
- school play
- shadow puppets
- Shakespeare in the Park
- sketches
- snake charming
- stand up
- stilts
- the street
- string quartet
- sword swallowing
- tap dancing
- (circus) tent
- (open air) theatre
- tightrope walking
- tragedy
- trapeze
- tribute band
- underground theatre
- unicycle
- ventriloquism
- West End
- Western classical music
- world music
- yoyo
- zither
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