Essential Questions:
• How has architecture facilitated the performing arts?
• How have visual artists contributed to theater?
• Where are arts and crafts used in drama and performance?
• In what areas do the visual and performing arts overlap?
Polykleitos: Theater at Epidauros (Greece, c. 350 BCE)
A Theater in EdoJapan, woodcut, c. 1800
J. L. Charles Garnier: Opera HouseParis, 1861 - 74
Joern Utzon: Opera HouseSydney, Australia, 1959 - 1972
Frank Lloyd Wright: Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumNew York, completed in 1959
Frank Gehry: Walt Disney Concert HallLos Angeles, 2003
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux: Central ParkNew York, 1857 - 1887
The Hakone Open-Air MuseumJapan, open 1969
Gu Mask, Ivory Coast
Bunraku performance on stage, Japan
Julie Taymor (designer and director): The Lion KingNew York, opened mid-1990s
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Jane Avrillithographic poster, Paris, 1899
Summerspace (premier in 1958)music – Morton Feldman
choreography – Merce Cunninghamset and costumes – Robert Rauschenberg
Matthew Barney: Cremaster I: The Goodyear ChorusUSA, 1995
Nick Park: Wallace and Gromitclaymation film still, early 1990s