Outline of performing arts
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to performing arts:
The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which produce physical or static objects. Performing arts include a range of disciplines which are performed in front of a live audience, including theatre, music, and dance. Performances may take place in purpose-built buildings, such as theatres and opera houses, as well as in open air festivals, street settings, and recorded formats like film or television.
What are performing arts?
[edit]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
[edit]- Acrobatics – performance of extraordinary feats of balance, agility and motor coordination.
- Baton twirling
- Busking
- Circus
- 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.
- Drama
- Erotica
- Free skating
- Ice show
- Juggling
- Magic
- Marching arts
- Music
- 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.
- Ventriloquism
History of performing arts
[edit]Contents of a work of performing art
[edit]Venue types
[edit]Participants
[edit]- Actor
- Character actor – one who predominantly plays a particular type of role rather than leading ones. Character actor roles can range from bit parts to secondary leads.
- Leading actor
- Artistic director
- Assistant stage manager
- Audience
- Audio engineer
- Ballet master
- Bandleader
- Call boy
- Carpenter
- Charge scenic artist
- Choreographer
- Composer
- Conductor
- Costume designer
- Dancer
- Dramaturge
- Dresser
- Electrician
- Film director
- Fly crew
- Light board operator
- Lighting designer
- Lighting technician
- Master electrician
- Movement director
- Music director
- Musician
- Playwright
- Production manager
- Production team
- Property master
- Rigger
- Running crew
- Scenographer
- Scriptwriter
- Set designer
- Sound designer
- Spotlight operator
- Stagehand
- Stage manager
- Technical director
- Theater manager
- Theatre director
- Theatrical producer
- Theatrical technician
- Usher
- Wardrobe supervisor
Production activities
[edit]External links
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