Visual and Performance Art Defined

Visual and Performing Arts Defined

Have you ever been to a Kenny Chesney concert, or watched a high school marching band in the homecoming parade? Have you ever been to the theater to see a live performance of the Sound of Music? Have you ever been in New York city, only to have missed your chance to see Grease on Broadway by minutes and as a substitution stumble upon the Radio City Rockettes Christmas Spectacular? If you have done any of those or even anything similar you have witnessed an array of visual art and probably danced, cried or became completely overjoyed by the performance that you saw.

According to Sporre (2011) the definition of performing arts can be defined as, "the arts, such as dance, theatre, and music that are performed before an...