Acrobatics | Ballet |
Big Band | Cheerleading |
Choir | Circuses |
Classical Music | Comedy |
Contemporary Dance | Country Music |
Culinary Theatre | Dance |
Drama / Tragedy | Electronic Music |
Fashion Show | Figure Skating & Ice Dance |
Flash Mobs | Gymnastics |
Hip Hop Music | Improvisational Theatre |
Jazz Music & Jazz Dance | Kabuki |
Latin Dance | Magic & Illusion |
Marching Band | Metal Music |
Mime | Music Concerts |
Musical Theatre | Opera |
Plays | Pop Music |
Postmodern Dance | Public Speaking |
Punk Music | Puppetry |
Reggae Music | Rock Music |
Social Dance | Spoken Word |
Stand-up Comedy | Storytelling |
Tap Dance | Theatre |
Theatrical Dance | Traditional Dance |
Traditional Theatre | Ventriloquism |
Voguing | Yosakoi |
Art vs Performing Art
Art is creative expression. Performing art is live creative expression in front of an audience. This has a time and place aspect whereby a performance is unique, intangible and impermanent.Performing Art vs Entertainment
Performing art implies significant creative expression that is unconcerned about meeting the expectations of the audience. Entertainment implies media, performances or experiences that are crafted and optimized to be crowd-pleasing. Both performing art and entertainment can be highly commercial.High Culture
High culture is any culture, including performing arts, that are controlled by high status institutions. This is associated with the cultural capital of the upper class whereby involvement in high culture is a type of social status and social event. In many cases, high culture is borrowed from avant-garde movements that challenge its unimaginative and static institutional tendencies. In other cases, high culture stems from traditional culture or popular culture.Types
The following are the basic types of performing art:
Summary
Performing art is live creative expression in front of an audience. This is considered an element of education alongside visual art.
