Topics: Arts : Performing Arts
Arts, such as dance, drama, and music, that are performed before an audience.
Acrobatics
Term for skills requiring significant body control including balance, strength and flexibility. Commonly seen in circus performances.
Acro-gymnastics,
Chinese Acrobatics,
Events and Competitions,
Performance Companies,
Professional Performers,
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Acting
This category will act as a repository of information and resources for aspiring actors.
Actors and Actresses,
Chats and Forums,
Education,
Publications,
Unions,
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Busking and Street Performing
Busking is playing music or performing entertainment in a public place, usually while soliciting money.
Performers,
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By Culture
Information on the performing arts that are specific to a lifestyle, ethnicity or cultural heritage.
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By Region
This category and its subcategories are comprised of symbolic links to elsewhere in the directory.
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Circus
Informational sites about the circus arts, including trapeze, high wire, juggling, contortion, clowning, and stiltwalking.
Circuses,
Clowning,
Contortion,
Juggling,
Organizations,
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Comedy
This category is for sites related to the live, performing art of comedy and the comedians that perform it.
Agencies,
Clubs and Venues,
Comedians,
Directories,
Education,
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Dance
dance n 1: an artistic form of nonverbal communication 2: a party of people assembled for dancing 3: taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music [syn: dancing, terpsichore] v 1: move in a graceful and rhythmical way 2: move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance [syn: trip the light fantastic] 3: skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways; "Dancing flames"; "The children danced with joy"
Accompaniment,
Ballet,
Ballroom,
Butoh,
Chinese,
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Directories
Directories are internet site guides that provide links to a variety of information on the performing arts.
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Education
Sites related to the teaching of the performing arts, including academic institutions offering such teaching.
Puppetry,
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Festivals
Information on gatherings that celebrate multiple forms of the performing arts.
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Hypnotism
This category is a collection of sites focusing on the performance of hypnotism on stage.
Hypnotists,
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Magic
Sleight-of-hand, illusion, tricks, and other performances commonly styled as magic. Information about professional magicians as well as sites aimed at amateurs are welcome here.
Directories,
Effects,
History,
Magicians,
Societies,
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Organizations
Information on associations, councils, grant-making foundations, collectives, or ad hoc groups that promote and/or support the activities and goals of the performing arts.
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Performers
Information on individuals or groups who practice multiple forms of the performing arts.
Clowns,
Impersonators,
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Publications
Information on print publications or electronic text with content that includes news, feature stories, reviews, editorials, opinion pieces, columns or other items of specific interest to the performing arts.
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Puppetry
The production of shows created by the manipulation of puppets. The process of creating and manufacturing puppets.
Muppets,
Puppeteers,
Regional,
Ventriloquism,
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Reference
Information on libraries, museums, glossaries, dictionaries, bibliographies and online text relevant to the performing arts.
Libraries,
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Resources
Includes tips, email lists, webrings, chat, bulletin boards and services for performing artists.
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Storytelling
If you tell stories out loud, in front of an audience, whether around a campfire or in a classroom, at a board meeting, or in the car, you're a storyteller.Storytelling is part of the oral tradition.
Associations,
Education,
Festivals,
Professional Storytellers,
Stories,
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Stunts
Performers/Coordinators of action in features, television and commercials
Aerial,
Associations,
Business,
Coordinators,
Daredevil Performers,
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Theatre
Theatre is the imitation/representation of life, performed for other people; the performance of dramatic literature; drama; the milieu of actors and playwrights, the place that is the setting for dramatic performances.
Awards,
By Culture,
By Region,
Chats and Forums,
Community Theatre,
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Venues
Information on places that offer dance, opera, theatre, music, storytelling or other forms of the performing arts.
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