Performing Arts

Employees in the Performing Arts entertain audiences either in live appearances or in recorded or broadcast presentations. The Performing Arts include music, drama, dance, standup comedy, and motion pictures. Workers who support performances behind the scenes—such as screenwriters, composers, choreographers, directors, stagehands, makeup artists, and others—are included in the Performing Arts field.
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Lyon Hill, Puppet Maker | Original SC

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"I can't make something to be popular...the best thing I can do is make it interesting to me and then I hope that...that I am like other people and it will find an audience...so being fiercely true to...
Dance Studio | Artopia

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The work of Guggenheim Fellow and Bessie Award winner Cathy Weis centers on a choreographic process that fully integrates dance with sound, design and technology. Weis offers a tour of her studio in...
Start a Dance | Artopia

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Dan Wagoner encourages young people to explore dancing by studying movements and the anatomy of the body.
Success | Artopia

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The work of Guggenheim Fellow and Bessie Award winner Cathy Weis centers on a choreographic process that fully integrates dance with sound, design and technology. Weis thinks of unsuccessful...
Teamwork | Artopia

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Weis explains how she decides who to work with and how to make the most out of every collaborator’s individual strengths.
Video Process | Artopia

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Cameras are an important part of Weis’s work. Here, she explains the technology and process behind her work.
Art and Physics | Artopia

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Wagoner describes Leonard Shlain’s theory of art and physics and how it relates to his own work.