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The Performing arts include all kinds of arts and onstage performance, such as theatre, literature, dance (solo, partner, group, ballet, performance, participation, etc.), music (folk, popular, classic), painting, sculpture and circus.¹¹⁸ Arts are performed in theatres, concert halls, the open air, or circus tents and arts are created and exhibited in galleries, museums, halls of institutions, companies and open places. Arts may be divided into two groups: One is the group of Western arts that make up an almost shared history since the Renaissance, with national variations. Two, is the group containing pre-industrial based arts of Asia, Africa and Latin America that come in many different kinds. Although the traditional art objects of developing countries are sold to tourists and others throughout the world and provide some income for poor people, this accounts for only a very small portion of global arts revenues. The dynamic majority of the world arts business is based on Western performances in theatres, music halls, etc.

Until the breakthrough of movie pictures and television, arts lived more or less in separated worlds. Theatres performed drama, opera and ballet, based on classical or modern literature. In concert halls, symphony orchestras played classical music. Popular music was played in music halls and elsewhere. Visual arts created paintings and exhibited them in galleries, etc. As the electronic media of entertainment proliferated and commercialization increased, all artforms increasingly intertwined. The same story began to appear in all forms, starting perhaps as a book or a movie picture or television film and moving on to the theatre and music hall. Spill-over effects can be seen in performing arts as they are in all other entertainment industries.