CHAPTER II- Review of Related Literature
1. Byttebier, K., Cherkaoui, S., Cools, G., & Gielen, P., eds. (2014). The Ethics of
Arts- Ecological Turns in the Performing Arts. USA: Valiz/Antennae Series.
In today’s art world there is a growing sense of ethics in relation to social,
political and economic challenges, entailing a critical rethinking of production and
distribution mechanisms. This book shows how the artistic perspective might
generate new situations based on the potentials and limitations of the body.
Featuring eleven exemplary North American practitioners, part one deals with
eco-artistic practices and how these can lead to a greater sensibility towards our
environment, while part two uses dance to explore the renewed concern for caring
for the body.
2. Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission (2012). Visual
and Performing Arts Framework for California Public Schools - Kindergarten
through Grade Twelve. USA: California Department of Education.
A discussion of the arts focuses on how people communicate their perceptions,
responses, and understanding of the world to themselves and to others. Since their
first appearance thousands of years ago, the arts have been evolving continually,
exhibiting the ability of human beings to intuit, symbolize, think, and express
themselves through dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts. Each of the arts
contains a distinct body of knowledge and skills that characterize the power of
each to expand the perceptual, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of
human experience. Acknowledging that the arts enhance and balance curriculum,
this framework for the twenty-first century implements the visual and performing
arts content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education in Janu-
ary 2001. The purpose of those standards, which express in the highest form what
students need to learn and be able to accomplish in the arts, is described in the
Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards
The Visual and Performing Arts Framework is designed to help classroom
teachers and other educators develop curriculum and instruction in the arts so that
all students will meet or exceed the content standards in dance, music, theatre, and
the visual arts.
3. Bañas, Raymundo. Pilipino Music and Theater. Quezon City: Manlapaz
Publishing.
A comprehensive work on the development of music and theater in the
Philippines. The book includes the studies of the influence and effects of the two
cultural tools on the social and political life of the Filipinos towards Music and
theater. It tackles on the genesis of Filipino music and how it has developed
towards the 21st century.
4. San Pablo, Lucy Mae (2012). Puro Arte: Filipinos and the Stages of Empire. New
York: New Yor City Press.
Contains stories of Filipino American Theater and performance from
the early 20th century to the present. Political aspects in the Filipino
Performing Arts. The book stresses as to where the Filipino performing body's
location as it conjoins colonial histories of the Philippines with US race
relations and discourses of globalization.
5. The Dana Foundation (2010). Acts of Achievement - The Role of Performing Arts
Centers in Education. USA: Dana Foundation.
Acts of Achievement: The Role of Performing Art Centers in Education, a
168-page publication, provides the first study of K-12 education programs offered
by performing arts centers nationwide, and showcases 74 performing art center
institutions, large and small, partnering with their local schools.
Acts of Achievement's executive summary offers a history of how performing
arts centers became a locus point for the community and how they began to
engage young people through education in performing arts disciplines. As the
essay states, "The new performing arts centers would now play a critical role in
developing a capable, caring citizenry." The summary also ties this history to
early notions of audience development with its focus on educating young people.
Over time, performing arts centers joined other school reformers in their efforts to
improve K-12 public education. Performing arts centers began to identify and
implement four central components of effective school collaborations: 1)
establishing new forms of partnerships based on community resources and
identified needs; 2) making up for the loss of arts education at every level; 3)
improving the quality and quantity of artist teachers; and 4) involving new
audiences by developing new, non-traditional venues.
6. Byrnes, William Janes (2014). Management of the Arts 5th Edition. Cedar, UT:
Focal Press.
The fifth edition of Management and the Arts provides you with theory and
practical applications from all arts management perspectives including planning,
marketing, finance, economics, organization, staffing, and group dynamics.
Regardless of whether you are a manager in a theatre, museum, dance company,
or opera, you will gain useful insights into strategic planning, organization, and
integrated management theories. Case studies, statistics, and real-world examples
will allow you get a handle on all aspects of arts managements, from budgeting
and fundraising, to e-marketing and social networking, to working effectively with
boards and staff members.
Revised to reflect the latest thinking and trends in managing organizations and
people, this fifth edition features class-tested questions in each chapter, which
help you to integrate the material and develop ideas about how the situations and
problems could have been handled. Case studies focus on the challenges facing
managers and organizations every day, and "In the News" quotes give you real-
world examples of principles and theories.
7. Carlson, Marvin (1993). Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theatre
Architecture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Explores the cultural, social, and political meanings of theatrical architecture
through the ages. The book draws upon models furnished by architectural and
urban semiotics to show how a theater building--both its interior and its exterior--
and its location within a city reflect the attitudes and concerns of the society that
created and sustained it. Contains bibliographic notes and literature citations.
8. Webb, Micale (1998). New Stage for a City: Designing the New Jersey
Performing Arts Center. Vaughan: Antique Collectors' Club.
The Performing Arts Center, designed by Los Angeles architect Barton Myers,
is the focal point of a cultural district intended to stimulate the revitalization of
downtown Newark, New Jersey. Based on a traditional opera house configuration,
with a proscenium and full stage house, the seats are arranged on a parterre and in
four tiers around the orchestra level.
9. Feuerstein, M., & Read, G., eds (2013). Architecture as a Performing Art. USA:
Ashgate.
This collection of essays reveals a deep alliance between architecture and the
performing arts, uncovering its roots in ancient stories, and tracing a continuous
tradition of thought that emerges in contemporary practice. With fresh insight, the
authors ask how buildings perform with people as partners, rather than how they
look as formal compositions. They focus on actions: the door that offers the
possibility of making a dramatic entrance, the window that frames a scene, and the
city street that is transformed in carnival. The essays also consider the design
process as a performance improvised among many players and offer examples of
recent practice that integrates theater and dance. This collection advances
architectural theory, history, and criticism by proposing the lens of performance as
a way to engage the multiple roles that buildings can play, without reducing them
to functional categories. Together, they open a position in the intersection between
everyday life and staged performance to rethink the role of architectural design.
10. Lowell, W., Byrne, E., & McDade, C., eds (2013) Landscape at Bekeley. UC
Berkley: Regents of the University of California and the College of
Environmental Design.
Landscape at Berkeley focuses on the first hundred years of teaching
landscape architecture and environmental planning on the UC Berkeley campus. It
showcases studies of evidence and examines the environment in school setting.
Contains portfolio of student work illustrating curricular goals, program
competitions, and the formative work of many individuals who have contributed
to the profession locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
11. Appleton, Ian (2008). Buildings for the Performing Arts 2nd Edition. Routledge.
This design and development guide is an essential book for those who are
involved in the initiation, planning, design and building of facilities for the various
performing arts, from local to metropolitan locations. It includes the stages in the
development, decisions to be taken, information requirements, feasibility and
advice necessary in the design and development of a new or adapted building.
Part one of this guide provides the background information about the
organization of the performing arts, the prevailing issues, the client and various
building types. In the second part, the author deals with the components of design
and development, identifying the roles of the client, advisors and consultants, the
stages to be achieved, including client’s proposal feasibility, the process of
briefing, design and building and eventually hand-over and opening night, with a
consideration of the building use. Studies include the assessment of demand, site
requirements, initial brief, building design and financial viability. Information
requirements, as design standards, for the auditorium and platform/stage, and the
support facilities, are included. Separate studies focus on the adaptation of
existing buildings and provision for children and young persons.
The content covers a wide range of performing arts (classical music, pop/rock,
jazz, musicals, dance, and drama) and provides information on each as an art from
and necessities to house performances.
12. Coulson, J., Roberts, P., & Taylor, I. (2011). University planning and
architecture: The search for perfection. New York, NY: Routledge.
This book contains and examination of historical architectural design in
education, detailing the architectural movements that shaped some of the most
prominent colleges and universities. It gives the reader a rubric for developing a
campus master plan. Architectural design that emphasizes and deemphasizes
different users throughout the process, from initial plan, the designers, to
implementation, the facility managers, and to inhabitation, the users.
13. Hardy, H., & Kliment, S. (2006). Building Type Basics for Performing Arts
Facilities. New Jersey, USA: Wiley.
This Building Type Basics book provides an accessible guide to the essentials
of designing these specialized environments—including the underlying issues of
financing, feasibility, and the diverse roles of the design and construction team,
sponsor, banks, impresario, and manager. Complete with a wealth of descriptive
floor plans, diagrams, photographs, and case studies, it features need-to-know
information on design including such technical topics as lighting, acoustics, and
materials.
14. Strong, Judith (2010). Theater Buildings- A Design Guide. London: Routledge.
The Association of British Theatre Technicians produced its first guide to the
design and planning of theatres in 1972. Revised in 1986, it became the standard
reference work for anyone involved in building, refurbishing or creating a
performance space.
Theatre Buildings: A design guide is its successor. Written and illustrated by a
highly experienced team of international theatre designers and practitioners, it
retains the practical approach of the original while extending the scope to take
account of the development of new technologies, new forms of presentation,
changing expectations and the economic and social pressures which require every
part of the theatre to be as productive as possible.
The book takes the reader through the whole process of planning and
designing a theatre. It looks in detail at each area of the building: front of house,
auditorium, backstage and administrative offices. It gives specific guidance on
sightlines, acoustics, stage engineering, lighting, sound and video, auditorium and
stage formats. Aspects such as catering, conference and education use are also
covered.
The information is supplemented by 28 case studies, selected to provide
examples which range in size, style and format and to cover new buildings,
renovations, and conversions, temporary and found space.
15. Fawell, Richard (2013). University Architecture. Dalian: Hi-Design Publising.
This is a book that consist of contemporary architecture in the field of education.
It has a collection of photographs of universities with colleges of different types
and nature.
Summary:
The related literatures listed above span from an introduction to Performing Arts
to the technical requirements of building a school and theater. The first two books
focuses on the performing arts as the art form; not performing arts in the physical
sense, rather performing arts in the incorporeal sense. It is about the sense of ethics in
relation to the social, political and economic aspects of the arts. The intangible things
are listed such as guides in regards to the perceptions, responses, and understanding of
the world through art, presenting a visual framework to aid teachers and students to
understand the performing arts curriculum. (Byttebir, K.) The next two books. The
book includes the studies of the influence and effects of the two cultural tools on the
social and political life of the Filipinos towards Music and theater. Arts in the
Philippines is tackled through analyzation of the different influences of foreign act
specifically in the theatre aspect of the performing arts.
Moving on the rest of the literatures, the books compose of the theoretical
application of marketing, finance, economics, organization, staffing, and group
dynamics of a Performing Arts school with case studies regarding management of
performing arts productions. More studies on buildings location in regards to its
neighborhood context and its reflection to that neighborhood’s community and
society; the study of semiotics regarding theater architecture and the theoretical
analysis of theater and school building with regards to how a buildings perform with
people as partners, rather than how they look as formal compositions.(Carlso, M.)
The last four books present a more technical side in Performing Arts center
studies. A case study of well-known school that gives an in-depth analysis of the
evolution of concepts and its final application to the design and a development guide
to constructing performing arts school and theaters ranging from information
requirements, feasibility studies and advice necessary in the design and development
of a new or adapted building. The literatures give notes on the whole process of
planning and designing a theatre. It looks into details of each area of the building:
front of house, auditorium, backstage and administrative offices. It gives specific
guidance on sightlines, acoustics, stage engineering, lighting, sound and video,
auditorium and stage formats. (Hardy, H.) Such technical information include
essentials of designing specialized environments such as a theater and specifically for
the performing arts and technical topics as lighting, acoustics, and materials.
