Performance Genres
Examples of performance genres include:
- musical genres:
- concert
- recital
- music competition
- theatrical genres:
- play
- opera
- operetta
- ballet and other types of dance
- musical theater
- other genres:
- circus acts
- performance art
- live art
- performance poetry
- busking
- magic (illusion)
- storytelling
Music performance (a concert or a recital) may take place indoors in a concert hall or outdoors in a field, and may require the audience to remain very quiet, or encourage them to sing and dance along with the music.
A performance may also describe the way in which an actor performs. In a solo capacity, it may also refer to a mime artist, comedian, conjurer, or other entertainer.
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Palermo Concertmaster Salvatore Greco in performance
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A U.S. Navy sailor singing on a stage at a sporting event.
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Famous quotes containing the word performance:
“The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience there is no theater. Every technique learned by the actor, every curtain, every flat on the stage, every careful analysis by the director, every coordinated scene, is for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, our evaluators, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.”
—Viola Spolin (b. 1911)