History of Performing Arts
The history of the performing arts goes back thousands of years. It’s impossible to list all of the important events, but here are some highlights. The ancient Greeks embraced the concept of drama and wrote plays to be performed. The plays written by Sophocles stand out as among the best. It is also believed that there were performing … Keep Reading → artists in parts of China at around the same time. Elements of music have been found across all civilizations throughout history. In the years after the fall of the Roman Empire many of the performing arts stopped. Sometime after 900 the Christians, who had stopped all public performances, started allowing them again to celebrate Easter. Around 1500 the new performing art of ballet was introduced in Italy. About 100 years later the plays of Shakespeare were being performed. In 1730, Romeo and Juliet became the first Shakespeare play to be performed in America. The 20th century brought modern technology to the performing arts with innovations in film and television.
