Aims: Recent reviews have demonstrated broad links between performing arts participation (e.g. music-making; dancing; acting) and receptive engagement (e.g. listening to music; attending a dance/theatre performance) and improved health, including reduced disease and mortality risk. However, no...

This research analyzes Taiwan data from a national attendance survey of four performing arts categories - music, dance, contemporary drama, and traditional theatre - and uses econometric models to examine the determinants of performing arts attendance for these four genres from various aspects. We...

This survey-based cross-sectional investigation explores the socio-demographic, school and student, extracurricular, and family factors associated with Australian high school-aged adolescents' attendance at live theater, music, and dance events (receptive arts participation) outside of school....

This article uses data collected from a telephone survey of Taiwanese residents to investigate the live performance attendances at four types of performing arts: contemporary drama, traditional theatre, dance and music. We estimate a Multivariate Probit (MVP) model to characterize the audience for...

The objective of this study is to explain the financial problems of the performing groups and to explore the implications of these problems for the future of the arts in the USA. Alternatives facing the arts are recommended and the costs and burdens that society is expected to shoulder are...

Aims: This rapid review explores the role of arts activities in promoting the mental wellbeing and resilience of children and young people aged between 11 and 18 years. Methods: A systematic search of the literature was undertaken across 18 databases; no date limit was set on publication. Search...

Research presented in this report focuses on data obtained through the 1982 and 1985 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts and relates to musical theatre, operetta, and opera attendance. The focus was on findings which might help opera or musical theatre organizations attract and understand...

This article explores the performing arts as cultural heritage in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the western Pacific. It examines policies for and ideas about the support, management and safeguarding of the performing arts, first through the colonial lens of historical preservation,...

Purpose: The purpose is to review the formation, event management, performance development and consumption of South East Australia's inaugural 2018 Giiyong Festival with emphasis on the sociocultural imaginary and political positionings of its shared theatre of arts. Design/methodology/approach: A...

Musical theater is a unique genre within the field of the performing arts. Research of injury epidemiology and treatment efficacy is growing in the field of dance, but little is published specific to the field of musical theater. One study has reported that injury rates in musical theater are high...