English > performing arts: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | arts or skills that require public performance. |
|---|
| Category of | act, play, represent | Play a role or part |
|---|
| audition, try out | Perform in order to get a role |
| blaze away | Perform (an acting passage) brilliantly and rapidly |
| cast | select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet |
| costume | Furnish with costumes |
| debut | Appear for the first time in public |
| debut | make one's debut |
| debut | Present for the first time to the public |
| direct | Guide the actors in (plays and films) |
| give | Perform for an audience |
| grandstand | Perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause |
| impersonate, portray | assume or act the character of |
| interpret, render | Give an interpretation or rendition / rendition of |
| miscast | cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role |
| perform | Give a performance (of something) |
| play | Perform on a certain location |
| play | Be performed or presented for public viewing |
| premier, premiere | perform a work for the first time |
| premier, premiere | Be performed for the first time |
| read | audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role |
| recast | cast again, in a different role |
| rehearse, practise, practice | Engage in a rehearsal (of) |
| sightsing, sight-sing | sing from a score without having seen it before |
| stage, present, represent | Perform (a play) , especially on a stage |
| stage direct | direct for the stage |
| stunt | Perform a stunt or stunts |
| subtitle | Supply (a movie) with subtitles |
| typecast | cast repeatedly in the same kind of role |
| underperform | Perform too rarely |
| Narrower | acting, playing, playacting, performing | The performance of a part or role in a drama |
|---|
| dancing, dance, terpsichore, saltation | Taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music |
| musical performance | The act of performing music |
| Broader | humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts | studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) |
|---|
| Nouns | performing artist | an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience |
|---|
