The connection between social processes and creative artists has been an area of interest to sociologists for a long time. Unlike other types of arts, performance helps artists to convey the message of their work personally to the recipient which transforms them into another way of social interaction. A certain social context is conveyed by drama, music, dance, and opera as major branches of the performing arts. Production and consumption are the two stages in the transmission of the social context. It is not enough for a producer to put a certain message in their piece of performing arts; it is also crucial for a recipient to get it right.
Social studies of the performing arts involved numerous sciences to explain the connection between the social and artistic dimensions. Thus, anthropology provided an understanding of social roots of artistic production, distribution, and consumption. It is vital to understand that all types of the performing arts developed to fill the need of society in expression and transmission of their cultural values. The Scientific research incorporates both referential and emotive analysis as a full comprehension of drama and opera, for instance, cannot be achieved by a mere division of the performance into constituents.
The social value of performing arts lies in their ability to underline and overcome social inconsistencies. Performance frequently touches upon race and gender issues blurring their civil representation. Being treated as a sequence of events, performance helps us to treat social reality as dynamic process unrestricted by time or space limits.