Outline of performing arts
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Performing arts – are art forms where the participant engages in a physical performance using their body, voice, language, or use of specific equipment for entertainment purposes.
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.
- 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
- Free skating
- Ice show
- Juggling
- Magic
- Marching arts
- Music
- 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
- 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
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