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PERFORMING ARTS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Arts or skills that require public performance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("performing arts" is a kind of...):

arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))

Domain member category:

play (be performed or presented for public viewing)

debut (appear for the first time in public)

debut (make one's debut)

debut (present for the first time to the public)

premier; premiere (perform a work for the first time)

premier; premiere (be performed for the first time)

audition; try out (perform in order to get a role)

read (audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role)

act; play; represent (play a role or part)

practice; practise; rehearse (engage in a rehearsal (of))

impersonate; portray (assume or act the character of)

interpret; render (give an interpretation or rendition of)

subtitle (supply (a movie) with subtitles)

costume (furnish with costumes; as for a film or play)

play (perform on a certain location)

give (perform for an audience)

sight-sing; sightsing (sing from a score without having seen it before)

underperform (perform too rarely)

grandstand (perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause)

perform (give a performance (of something))

blaze away (perform (an acting passage) brilliantly and rapidly)

stunt (perform a stunt or stunts)

present; represent; stage (perform (a play), especially on a stage)

stage direct (direct for the stage)

typecast (cast repeatedly in the same kind of role)

miscast (cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role)

recast (cast again, in a different role)

cast (select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet)

direct (guide the actors in (plays and films))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "performing arts"):

musical performance (the act of performing music)

dance; dancing; saltation; terpsichore (taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music)

acting; performing; playacting; playing (the performance of a part or role in a drama)

Derivation:

performing artist (an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience)

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