The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to performing arts:
What are performing arts?
The performing arts as a whole can be described as all of the following:
- Art – aesthetic expression for presentation or performance, and the work produced from this activity.
- One of the arts – an outlet of human expression that is influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture. The performing arts are a physical manifestation of the internal human creative impulse.
- A form of storytelling that has been practiced since the beginning of time.
Common performing arts
- Acrobatics – performance of extraordinary feats of balance, agility and motor coordination.
- Baton twirling
- Majorettes
- Busking
- Circus
- Circus arts
- Comedy
- Dance – art of movement of the body, usually rhythmically and to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures. "A dance" is any one prescribed sequence of such movements, or the music to which it is performed, or an event at which it takes place.
- Competitive dance
- Dance squad
- Ice dance
- Drama
- Erotica
- Free skating
- Ice show
- Juggling
- Magic
- Marching arts
- Color guard
- Drum and bugle corps
- Indoor percussion ensemble
- Marching band
- Pep band
- Winter guard
- Music
- Jazz
- Opera – performance where art, architecture, music, theater, text, and cloth designing are put together to present a story to the audience
- Pornography
- Puppetry
- Storytelling – conveying of events in words, images and sounds, often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation and in order to instill moral values.
- Acting
- Film
- Television
- Theatre
- Musical theatre
- Plays
- Ventriloquism
History of performing arts
Contents of a work of performing art
Venue types
Participants
Production activities
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