Category:Performing arts

The performing arts classically include theatre/drama, music, opera, and dance, mime and pantomime. Less classically, stand-up comedy, oratory, debate, etc., are also performing arts; and the term also includes all of the various forms, subforms, elements, and variations of the foregoing, such as oral interpretation, marching band, and so on.

An artist who practices one or more performing arts is called a "performer". Common occupational titles include actor, comedian, singer, dancer, musician, orator, and so on.