Contemporary Performing Arts

1. CONTEMPORARY
PERFORMING ARTS

2. Performing arts consist of genres
in which artists or performers use
their voices, move their bodies
and relate to other performers,
objects or even to the audience.

3. What are the different
types of performing arts?

4. Performing arts may
include dance, music, opera, theatre
and musical theatre, magic, illusion, mime, spoken
word, puppetry, circus arts, performance
art, recitation and public speaking. There is also a
specialized form of fine art, in which the artists
perform their work live to an audience.

5. THE ART OF FILM: A
WINDOW TO
DIFFERENT WORLDS

6. A new breed of Filipino
directors were brave enough to
direct films that portrayed
revolt, labor unionism, social
ostracism, and class division.

7. One of the influential and
significant filmmakers in
Philippine cinema history is
Lino Brocka.

8. In 1983, he founded the
organization Concerned Artists
of the Philippines (CAP),
dedicated to helping artists
address issues confronting the
country.

9. In film making, he used
“conventional love triangles, rape
and, and violent action,” which
reveled the suffering in Filipino life
due to economic exploitation
through symbols and an elaborate
plot.

10. An example is his Maynila: In the
Claws of light (1975)(Maynila sa
mga Kuko ng Liwanga)

12. This is a story of a provincial
man`s stay in the city of manila,
the changes he had to cope with,
and his discovery that his
childhood sweetheart,

13. brought to manila some time ago
for schooling, was deceived and
sold to a Chinese brothel owner
instead.

14. Experimental Cinema of the
Philippines Peque Gallaga was
born in Manila and studied in
Bacolod.

16. He directed the award winning
Oro, Plata, Mata and the
famous Shake Rattle and Roll
1,2,3, and ore than 20 other
films.

18. Shake Rattle and Roll is
an anthology within 15
film series from 1984 to
2014.

19. Peque Gallaga was Director
of Manananggal with cast
Herbert Bautista, Irme
Alegre, Mary Walter, Peewee
Quijano and Pen Medina.

20. The next films in the series
were directed by Gallaga and
Lore Reyes: (II)Multo, Kulam,
Aswang; (III) Yaya, Ate, Nanay;
(IV) Guro, Kapitbahay, Madre

21. Manila Film Maker, Ishmael
Bernal, is noted for his
melodramas, particularly
with feminist and moral
issues.

23. He was awarded CMMA Best
Director (1983) for the movie
Himala (1982), which starred
Nora Aunor.

24. This, according to many
critics, was Nora Aunor`s
best performance.

25. The movie is about a small
town, Cupang, where townsfolk
believed that their ill-fated
town was suffering because of
a curse placed upon the town
for driving a leper away.

26. In Celso Ad Castillo`s Ang
Pinakamagandang hayop sa balat
lupa, Gloria Diaz plays the role of
Isabel who appeared one day in a
small town and changes the lives of
families because of human desire for
passion.

28. Unfortunately, Isabel was the
object of this passion and
became the cause of jealousy,
envy, hatred, and insanity.

29. Marilou Diaz Abaya was a multi-
awarded film director and the
founder and president of the
Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute
and Arts Center, a fil school based
in Antipolo City.

31. She was the 2001 Laureate of the
Fukuoka Prize for culture and the
Arts in Japan, Muro Ami depicts
on the worst form of child labor in
the illegal fishing system in the
Philippines.

32. It exposed the manipulation of
children who made at least eight
dives a day pounding and crushing
corals to drive the fish towards the
fishing nets.

33. THE DIRECTORS OF
THE NEW WAVE

34. The Directors of the New Wave
either “tended towards exposing
relevant social topics or
hybridizing Filipino topics with
Western Techniques”.

35. Filmmakers Kidlat Tahimik,
Deocampo, and Red are
examples of Alternative
Filmmakers.

36. Alternative or independent
filmmakers are products of film
schools were students are
exposed to art films without
“the comprises of commercial
filmmaking”.

37. Alternative or independent
filmmakers are products of film
schools were students are
exposed to art films without
“the comprises of commercial
filmmaking”.

38. Directors Raymond Red, Manny Reyes,
and Nick Deocampo turned to
international festivals when their films
were seen as too unconventional by
local industries, and got their funds
from foreign television company.

39. Raymond Red, one of the first Filipino
to receive Rotterdam Hubert Bals
Memorial grant, and the first and so
far only filipino to have won the
prestigious Palme d`or award the at
the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his
short film Anino.

40. He is also known for his super-8 films
explored the revolution against the
Spaniards through the perspective of
Andres Bonifacio in his Bayani (1992)
and the revolution against the
Americans through Macario Sakay’s
eyes in Sakay (1993).

41. Nick Deocampo, in his practice of
nonfiction documentary films and
short films, filmed Revolutions
Like Refrains in a Song (1987), “a
mortem on the people power
revolution of 1896,”

42. A legacy of Violence (1990),
which contributed “a view of
the History of the Country”.

43. Manny Reyes’ satirical commentaries on
provincial politics are seen in Suwapings
(1995), a story of a citizen`s rebellion
against Barrio Talong`s corrupt mayor
whose plan was to dub a group of
Americans as hometown heroes if they
donate a huge a money to him.

44. Suwapings was accepted at the Young
Filmmakers Forum of the Berlin Film
Festival. Dreaming Filipinos (1992) is
another film by Manny Reyes.

45. Suwapings was accepted at the Young
Filmmakers Forum of the Berlin Film
Festival. Dreaming Filipinos (1992) is
another film by Manny Reyes.