PERFORMANCE ARTS

An art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance.

Performance art is typically intensely theatrical, often taking acting and movement to extremes of expression and endurance not permitted in the theatre. Words are rarely prominent, while music and noises of various kinds are often performed.

Although this brand of postmodernist art is not easy to define precisely, one important feature is the requirement for the artist to perform or express his 'art' before a live audience.

Performance artists can incorporate any discipline or medium into their art, including Dance, Music, Recitation, Mime, Fashion, Theatrical Design, Film, Juggling, Tumbling, Contortionism, Escapology, Installation, Body and Computer art (to name but a few), as well as more traditional genres like painting, drawing and sculpture.

The theatrical technique of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gesture, expression, and movement. Such a performer would typically be referred to as a mummer. 

Miming is to be distinguished from silent comedy, in which the artist is a seamless character in a film or sketch.

            Juggling 

Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport. The most recognizable form of juggling is toss juggling. 

Juggling can be the manipulation of one object or many objects at the same time, using one or many hands. Jugglers often refer to the objects they juggle as props. The most common props are balls, clubs, or rings. Some jugglers use more dramatic objects such as knives, fire torches or chainsaws. The term juggling can also commonly refer to other prop-based manipulation skills, such as diabolo, devil sticks, poi, cigar boxes, contact juggling, hooping, and hat manipulation.

              MUSIC

Vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.

             DANCE

Dance is a performance art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements,