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Exploring Curatorial Vocabulary in Performing Arts: Week Four Insights

Dive into this week's edition of our Performing Arts Vocabulary series, focusing on crucial terms. Discover the role of a Curator, responsible for the art in museums, and explore definitions like Armature, the support structure for sculptures. Unpack Tableau, a still stage picture; Forte, indicating strength and volume in music; the comic Harlequin character; the versatile Scrim curtain; Contrapposto, highlighting dynamic body poses in art; Hamartia, the tragic flaw; and the Impresario, the driving force behind performances. Expand your vocabulary in the arts!

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Exploring Curatorial Vocabulary in Performing Arts: Week Four Insights

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  1. English Vocabulary Performing Arts Edition! Week Four

  2. Curator Noun-a person in charge of the artwork in a museum

  3. Curator In the beginning of The DaVinci Code, the Curatorof France’s Louvre museum is killed.

  4. Armature Noun-a skeleton construction upon which a sculptor builds a sculpture

  5. Armature It is hard to believe that underneath the massive statue is an armature

  6. Tableau Noun-a stage picture created by actors posing motionless.

  7. Tableau At the end of the first act, the performers froze in position, creating a dramatic tableau.

  8. Forte Adjective- Strong, loud

  9. Forte A piano can be played mezzo forte or forte depending on the desired effect.

  10. Harlequin Noun-masked, comic character.

  11. Harlequin The harlequinsomersaulted across the stage before delivering the punch-line to his joke.

  12. Scrim Noun-a curtain that may be transparent or opaque, depending on how it is lit.

  13. Scrim Depending on how the scrim was lit, actors could be hidden without moving.

  14. Contrapposto Noun-a pose in which the parts of the body are twisted or distorted into opposite directions.

  15. Contrapposto Michelangelo’s David is a good example of contrappostoin art.

  16. Hamartia Noun-a flaw in a tragic character.

  17. Hamartia Hamlet’s hamartiais his inability to act against those who killed his father before it is too late.

  18. Impresario Noun-manger, promoter, or sponsor of performing arts.

  19. Impresario The impresariodonated often to theatrical foundations and attended many productions.

  20. Requim • Noun-composition written for a funeral mass.

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