Performing and creative arts
The performing and creative arts sector is notoriously competitive, but has a huge amount to offer for those with the talent and drive to succeed.
Performing arts is a collective term for music, drama and dance while creative arts describes professions such as craft making, fashion and textile design, photography and painting.
Creative arts covers a wide range of careers in art and design-related areas, including many, such as multimedia, that cross over with IT.
Traditionally, the term ‘creative industries’ meant sectors such as advertising, design, music and film. Increasingly it includes new types of work, bringing these sectors together with technological innovation and new communication platforms. This means you could be working in areas such as computer games incorporating original music and film content or websites that incorporate TV, animation and music.
Job descriptions
- Actor/actress
- Animator
- Arts therapist
- Choreographer
- Community arts worker
- Composer
- Conductor
- Costume designer
- Dancer
- Designer/maker
- Exhibition designer
- Fashion designer
- Fashion photographer
- Fashion stylist
- Film director
- Fine artist
- Furniture conservator/restorer
- Furniture designer
- Illustrator
- Interior designer
- Make-up artist
- Multimedia designer
- Musician
- Photographer
- Printmaker
- Stage manager, theatre
- Textile designer
- Theatre director
- Theatre lighting technician
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