Skills in Visual and Performing Arts

    • Competitive success in any of the arts
    • Can lead others in artistic pursuits
    • Highly motivated to improve expressive skills
    • Can produce original works superior to others of their age
    • Strong reaction to being in the limelight – positive or negative
    • Analyse and interpret their observations and present them artistically
    • Respond emotionally to the arts and their surroundings
    • Particularly sensitive to patterns
    • Have the ability to visualise
    • Can engage effectively with an audience – through their work or themselves.
    • May be disinterested in other aspects of education
    • Perfectionist
    • Many of the negative characteristics of high creative ability may be present
    • Could be a visual/spatial learner
    • Disorganised.