What is Performing Art?
Excellent explanation by Sangita Kalanidhi R.K.Srikandan.
“ A Performing art is its simplest and most obvious form and meaning, is an art which lives only when it is being performed. That is, these arts live only in time. The sound of music lives only for the second it is created. But it leaves huge shadows of wonder and beauty and vanishes. Only a memory is left….. (the) kind of experience provided is different from emotion recollected is tranquility.
A musician’s life, vocal or instrumental, is focused on the instant of execution, because a performing art is a performing art only when it is being performed… A musician makes his body as instrument at least for the duration of the performance, for the experience and expression of spirit.”