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perfor′mance art′, 
  1. Music and Dance, Show Businessa collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • 1970–75
perfor′mance art′ist. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
performance art n
  1. a theatrical presentation that incorporates various art forms, such as dance, sculpture, and music
'performance art' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
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