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  2. Performing arts - Wikipedia

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    The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. [1] They are different from the visual arts, which involve the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects.

  3. Performance art - Wikipedia

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    Performance art is a form of expression that was born as an alternative artistic manifestation. The discipline emerged in 1916 parallel to dadaism, under the umbrella of conceptual art. The movement was led by Tristan Tzara, one of the pioneers of Dada.

  4. Theatre - Wikipedia

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    Theatre or theater [a] is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song ...

  5. Performing arts education - Wikipedia

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    Education in the performing arts is a key part of many primary and secondary education curricula and is also available as a specialisation at the tertiary level. [1] [citation needed] The performing arts, which include, but are not limited to dance, music and theatre, are key elements of culture and engage participants at a number of levels.

  6. Outline of performing arts - Wikipedia

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    Outline of performing arts. 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.

  7. The arts - Wikipedia

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    Performing arts comprise dance, music, theatre, opera, mime, and other art forms in which human performance is the principal product. Performing arts are distinguished by this performance element in contrast with disciplines such as visual and literary arts, where the product is an object that does not require a performance to be observed and ...

  8. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Wikipedia

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    It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Opened on September 8, 1971, the center hosts many different genres of performance art, such as theater, dance, orchestras, jazz, pop, psychedelic, and folk music .

  9. Performance studies - Wikipedia

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    Performance studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that teaches the development of performance skills and uses performance as a lens and a tool to study the world. The term performance is broad, and can include artistic and aesthetic performances like concerts, theatrical events, and performance art; sporting events; social, political ...

  10. Natya Shastra - Wikipedia

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    Performance arts and culture. Let Nāṭya (drama and dance) be the fifth vedic scripture. Combined with an epic story, tending to virtue, wealth, joy and spiritual freedom, it must contain the significance of every scripture, and forward every art.

  11. Improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of improvisation can apply to many different faculties across all artistic, scientific, physical, cognitive, academic, and non-academic disciplines; see Applied improvisation .