Philippine Opera and Theaters

Music: Opera

• A musical and art form that combines musicians, singers, text (libretto), and a musical score for dramatic work, usually in theatrical setting.
• Incorporates elements of spoken theatre like acting, scenery, costumes and dance.
• The performance is accompanied by a small musical ensemble and dialogue is entirely sung and not spoken.
• Originated in the Philippines in the mid-19th century.

Teatro Zorilla

• Also known as Zorilla Theatre (Dulaang sa Maynila.)
• Was an important theatre in the Philippines.
• Served as a venue for mainly Italian operas such as La Boheme, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Traviata and Aida.
• It showcased the first Filipino Opera, Sandugong Panaginip.

Manila Grand Opera House

• It was a venue for cultural events, that contributed in shaping the history of Philippine theatre.

Metropolitan Theater (Met)

• Lakangbini by Patricio Mariano was staged on December 19, 1933.

Cultural Center of the Philippines

• Established in 1969 by First Lady Imelda Romualdez-Marcos.

• Served as venue for Filipino operas.

• Dr. Ramon Javier was the First Filipino opera impresario.

• He encouraged local talent in foreign productions.

• LA LOBA NEGRA (The Black She-Wolf) is a three-act Filipino opera.

• It is based on history (Acts I and II) and a legend (Act III).

• The premiere was in 1984 that was directed by Lamberto Avellano, National Artist for theatre and Film.

• Noli Me Tangere is a three-act Filipino opera composed by National Artist Filipe Padilla de Leon, with libretto by National Artist Guillermo Tolentino.

• El Filibusterismo composed by National Artist Filipe De Leon in three acts, staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1970 with libretto in Filipino by Anthony Morli.

Arts: Theater

• Theater is one major art form that combines the other art forms in a single production.
• Musical Theatre is a theatrical performance with dance, acting, spoken dialogue, and songs.

Famous 19th, 20th and 21st Century Musical Theater

• West Side Story (1957) is based on Romeo and Juliet and involves star-crossed lovers. Composers Leonard Bernstein along with lyricist Stephen Soundheim and choreographer Jerome Robins collaborated on the 1957 musical.
• Les Misérables (1985)- also known as Les Mis or Les Miz, which is adapted from Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name. It is adapted as a sung-through musical by Claude-Michael Schoenberg, Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel and Herbert Kretzmer.
• The Phantom of the Opera (1986) is a stage musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, and book by Richard Stilgoe and Lloyd Webber.
• Philippine Theatre groups have staged plays by Local and Western playwrights, in Filipinos and English.

Filipino influence

• Spanish culture and traditions influence performing arts in the Philippine.
• Americans influenced the contemporary style.
• Ang Huling El Bimbo was staged by Full House Theater Company.

Elements of Theatre

• Common elements are present whenever a theatre event takes place.
• The event will cease to be "theatre" and becomes a different experience if any elements are removed.

Performers

• Present dramatic action through the people on stage presenting characters.

Audiences

• Experience theatre live.
• Atmosphere includes a “call and response” that can't can't be witnessed in a movie theater.

Director

• They will make sure the performers understand the text and deliver the script excitingly and appropriately.
• They are responsible for costume design, set design, blockings.
• He/she blends aspects of the show together to make a production that works.

Theatre Space

• Where the performers or audiences come together.

Design Aspects

• Visual Aspect: Costumes, lighting, scenic background
• Non-Visual Aspect: sounds
• text is also called script.
• Conflict is a key element for writing.

Physical Activity

• Bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles.
• Exercise that requires planned, structured, and repetitive bodily movement to improve or maintain components of physical fitness and a vigorous and intense effort.
• Recreation is an activity you do during leisure. Leisure is an unobligated time wherein you are free from any pressing concern in studies and/or work.
• Passive recreational activities are those spent leisurely without physical prowess.
• Active recreational activities are deliberate physical efforts within the range of light to vigorous intensities.
• Cheerdance is coined from the words cheer and dance.
• Cheer is to shout out the words or phrases that may well motivate team and perform better during the game.
• Contemporary Dance involves dancers performing and connecting their mind and body through fluid dance moves.
• Cheerdancing is rooted from cheerleading.
• Identified as a spectacular event in in the UAAP.
• The first recorded yell was performed in locomotive style on an American campus in the 1880s, during a college football game.
• The first pep club was established at Princeton University in 1870.
• The first cheerleading company in Dallas, Texas was formed by Lawrence R. Herkimer.

Genre of Dance

(For Cheerdance)

• Cheer dancing can also be incorporated to other genre of dance including Hip Hop and Jazz/ Classical Dances.

Hip-Hop Dance

• Refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture.
• It includes primarily styles of broad basics.
• Include Pump Groove, Bounce, and Lock
• Popularized by dance crews in the United States, were first created in the 1970s

Essential of Cor Dancing

• arms are straight with fists
• bucket, straight with fists down, as if they were holding the handle of a bucket in each hand
• Candle stick, are -arms are straight with fists facing each other as if they were and holding a lit candle in each hand

Tumbling

• Bend one leg and other leg stretch.
• Forward Roll, Backwards roll , Cartwheel, and Round Off

Cheer Stance

• Beginning Stance: Stand straight with both feet together.
• Box: -Both hands together in front of the chest together
• Cheer Stance: Stand straight with feet apart.
• Punch: Both are bent and clenched fists facing each other
• Squat-One arm is diagonally upward and the other arm is diagonally downward
• Kneels are is supported only by the knees
• High V Both arms are raised diagonally upward

Cheer Basics

Cheerleading Basics

• Pyramids are optional made up of a flyer, base, and spotter.
• Levels for pyramids: one-and-a half-high, two-high, and two-and-a-half high
• Action is any human movement included in the act of dancing
• Body is the awareness, use of body parts
• There are Body shapes,locomotor and nonlocomotor movements

Pyramid Execution Steps

• Setting up (Preparing to lift)

• Load (Actual Lift)

• Hit (Striking for a final pause )

• Dismount (To move down by the flyer)

• Elements of Dance

• Body- use body parts the bodies shapes, the locomotor and nonlocomotor movements

• Action- is an human movement Cheerdance Movements

• Action is any human movement included in the act of dancing.

• Space which is the area that the dance performers occupy and where they move can be divided into four different aspects Direction-The performers can go forward, backward, diagonal, circular, and so on.

• Size are movements varied either long or short Levels are- movements done either at high , low or medium

• Quality of timings can be done with varying tempo with performers moving to the sound

• Energy is movements started or stopped by force and energy and may use this varied

• Relationship of dancers, lead, follow and meet at certain point

• Basic Cheerleading Moves

• Hip hop

• Bounce(downrock0,0

• Groove

• Power point

• Lock

Health

A health career is a job or occupation which requires a degree

• Health Career Planning is where you plan to make a career choice to grow in your career plan
• Have good salary
• Security in you job
• Having a career in the health filed

12 Specialisation in the health Field

• Disease Prevention- Focus is to inform people to do newborn screening and inform on how to breastfeed so people can be healthy
• Personal Health- Tasks are to monitor patients for hygiene and nutrition
• child health- Focus is to give family care so they can have infant care
• Mental health is to give care for cognitive development
• Community care and well being the of the healthcare
• Environment- Workers try to establish factors that affect the environment
• Drug - Reduce the substance abuse
• Education and training with health and give a change in health care