performing arts

American  

plural noun

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

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performing arts British  

plural noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of performing arts

First recorded in 1945–50

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Example Sentences

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performing arts

—Jed Bernstein, who runs a performing arts nonprofit in Aspen, on a renovation that will move the city’s airport runway by 80 feet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

A return to industrial musicals in the age of A.I. didn’t strike me as a solution for all the woes afflicting the performing arts, from pricey tickets to the increasingly blatant corporatization of the arts.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

Kae, who wants to be an actor and is studying performing arts at Coleg Gwent, is urging other young people to check what they may be owed.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Fifty years later, those stakeholders have “absolutely zero consensus on whether theater should exist as a nonprofit performing arts field or whether we should exist at all,” Eustis said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

On the first day we talked, he had just returned home from six weeks at a summer performing arts camp in upstate Pennsylvania.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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