This document discusses and assesses information in the performing arts. It defines performing arts as live presentations featuring acting, poetry, music, dance or painting. The three key elements are performance, performers, and an audience. The main divisions of performing arts are then outlined as music, dance, film, radio, video and theater. Within each category, various types and forms are described along with helpful resources for further information on performing arts topics.

1. TOPIC:
ASSESSING INFORMATION IN THE PERFORMING ARTS

2. GROUP MEMBERS:
 Ayesha Akram
 Hamza Hamad
 Faizan Irfan

3. CONTENT:
 What is performing Arts
 Elements of Performing Arts
 Division of Performing Arts
 Resources of Performing Arts
 Conclusion

4. PERFORMING ARTS
 Performing art is a time based art
form that typically features a live
presentation to an audience or to
onlookers and draws on such arts
as acting, poetry, music, dance
and painting.
 Generally it is an event.

5. ELEMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS
 There are three elements of performing arts:
 Performance.
 Performer or performers.
 Audience.

6. MUSIC
 Music may be defined as the
art of organizing sound.
OR
 Sounds that are sung by voices
or played on musical
instruments.

7. DIVISION OF PERFORMING ARTS
Music
Dance
Film
Radio
Video
Theater

8. ELEMENTS OF MUSIC
Melody
Harmony
Rhythm

9. Vocal Music
MUSIC
Instrumental
Music

10. TYPES OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Stringed Woodwind Brass
Percussion Keyboard

11.  Librarians are responsible for a music collection will need to keep in
mind three elements:
 The music itself.
 The literature about music.
 The vast array of recordings on records.

12. THEATRE:
 Theatre is the art of presenting
a performance to a live
audience.
 Difference between Theatre
and Drama.

13. RADIO:
 Radio is the broadcasting of
programmes for the public to
listen to, by sending out signals
from a transmitter in a live or
prerecorded form.

14. DANCE :
 Dance is defined as movement of the body to a certain Rhythm.
( Encyclopedia)
 There are three major division of Dance
 Folk Dance
 Ballroom Dance
 Theatre Dance

15. FOLK DANCE:
 Folk Dancing is originated in
open air activities is
characterized by great vigor
and exuberance of movement

16. BALLROOM DANCE:
 Ballroom dance is a set of
partner dances, which are
enjoyed both socially and
competitively around the world.

17. THEATRE DANCE
 Theatre dance is a spectator
activity that may be traced to
religious dances in the ancient
world and to performances
known as masques in the
courts of Renaissance Europe.
 Its most characteristic form is
ballet dance.
 Ballet dance is usually
accompanied by music.

18. FILM:
 A film consists of
moving pictures that have been
recorded so that they can be
shown at the cinema or on
television. A film tells a story, or
shows a real situation.
 Division of film:
 Feature length
 Short
 Docu-Drama
 Animated cartoons
 Puppet Feature

19. VIDEO:
 A video is a film or television
programme recorded digitally
(or in the past on tape) for
people to watch on a television
set.
 Available on tapes for home
consumption.

20. HELPFUL RESOURCES IN PERFORMING ARTS:
1) Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
2) Anthony Storr’s Music and the Mind.
3) New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
4) Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public
Libraries.
5) Performing Arts journals online.

21. REFERENCES:
 The humanities: a selective guide to information sources
(Blazek, R and Aversa, E)
 Encyclopedia of Britannica online