PERFORMANCE

1. Examples

-Music competitions: school and college talent show competitions

-Music competitions: Artemis orchestra contest

-Ballet: New York International Ballet competition

-Concerts: Kanye West performing in December 2008

-Busking: Buskers perform in San Francisco

-Musical theatre: Hairspray the musical

-Musical theatre: The Phantom Of The Opera

-Magic illusions

-Circus arts: Piccardily Circus

-Dance: America’s best Dance Crew

-Ice skating: Torino Figure Ice Skating

-Dance- Olympic Peninsula Dance at American Legion Hall in Port Townsend

2. Organization

Talent show

• Make sure: you have willing performers, you have said what age can participate, and that you can have a venue and a date for the auditions and the main talent show
• Keep a list of the stage
• Audience: publicize the event-make posters and stick them everywhere.
• Be sure of the time you have for the talent show and see how many performers you can have. Never forget that when you are calculating the time you’ll use you have to count some minutes to leave between each performer.
• Create your talent show schedule in which you list all the performances and their time.
• If the talent show is open to the community, then promote it thru the local newspaper.
• Once you’ve finished the talent show schedule print out many copies of it to display it near the stage as a reference for all performers and stage crew
• Keep at least one copy for yourself and make every last minute changes.

Run a dress rehearsal with all the performers and the stage, making sure that everyone knows what to do , when to do it and how.

Concert

• Get the dates and time and start thinking to the set up
• Get the instruments and the staff to set up
• Think to the needs of the artist
• Estimate the audience
• Parking arrangements at the venue
• Get a/some sponsor/s
• Design and print out posters and do some publicity thru television and internet
• Make a brochure
• Get a MC for the concert
• Stage decorations
• Make the food arrangements
• Book keeping for the concert
• Get or think to some gifts for the artist

3. The radio play

The early radio couldn’t transmit sound or speech and it was called wireless telegraph.

An official demonstration of wireless telegraph was made on August 18 1894. From 1893 up-ways many engineers, inventors developers and businessmen worked on different projects about radio.

The first radio program broadcast was on 1906.

A radio play is a type of audio storytelling broadcast in which there are dialogues, music and sound effect.

On Radio 4 there are always many types of play, everyday.