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performing arts

plural noun

  1. arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing.


performing arts

plural noun

  1. the arts that are primarily performed before an audience, such as dance and drama


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Word History and Origins

Origin of performing arts1

First recorded in 1945–50

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Example Sentences

She attended a multicultural performing arts school and swam competitively.

She began performing in off-Broadway musicals and attended LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts.

Its pleasures are undoubtedly visual, but also more cerebral than many of the other performing arts.

He was a performing arts student at South Thames College, where he played the lead in Othello in 2010.

In 2009, he played Iago, opposite John Ortiz as Othello, at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

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