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Performance art is a live creative expression. This has been a valuable part of culture since antiquity. Performance art is a large and lively industry that produces revenue, attracts visitors, improves quality of life and establishes cultural heritage that can be passed down to future generations. It is also an element of education, a pastime, shared experience and category of profession. The following are examples of performance arts.
Acrobatics | Ballet | Big Band | Burlesque | 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 | 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 ArtArt 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 EntertainmentPerforming 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 CultureHigh 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.
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