Editing Amphitheatre (section)

==Natural amphitheatres==
[[File:Bryce Amphitheater from Sunrise Point Highres 2013.jpg|left|thumb|[[Bryce Canyon National Park|Bryce Canyon]] Amphitheatre from Sunrise Point]]

A natural amphitheatre is a performance space located in a spot where a steep mountain or a particular rock formation naturally amplifies or echoes sound, making it ideal for musical and theatrical performances. An amphitheatre can be naturally occurring formations which would be ideal for this purpose, even if no theatre has been constructed there.

Notable natural amphitheatres include the [[Amphitheatre (Drakensberg)|Drakensberg Amphitheatre]] in [[South Africa]], [[Slane Castle]] in [[Ireland]], the [[Meredith Music Festival|Supernatural Amphitheatre]] in [[Australia]], and the [[Red Rocks Amphitheatre|Red Rocks]] and [[The Gorge Amphitheatre|the Gorge]] Amphitheatres in the western [[United States]].

There is evidence that the [[Anasazi]] people used natural amphitheatres for the public performance of music in [[Pre-Columbian era|Pre-Columbian]] times including a large constructed performance space in [[Chaco Canyon]], [[New Mexico]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Loose |first=Richard W. |date=March 2008 |title=Tse'Biinaholts'a Yalti (Curved Rock That Speaks) |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2752/175169608783489080 |journal=Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture |language=en |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=31–49 |doi=10.2752/175169608783489080 |issn=1751-696X |via=Taylor & Francis|url-access=subscription }}</ref>