performing arts, n.Definitions

The Performing arts is distinguished from painting and sculpture in this. While the task of these other arts is to single out a point in time and freeze it, the task of the performing arts is to single out the point and unfreeze it.

Performing arts is culture on the half shell, a dish much loved by bourgeois patrons who relish the chance to flaunt expensive clothes and applaud their own elevated tastes in public.