Performance artist
Also called mime, mimic, imitator
Performance artists create a performance which can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between the performer and audience or onlookers. They are flexible with the medium of the art work, the setting and the length of time of the performance.
What you'd do
Creative and performing artists not elsewhere classified · ILO- Performing amusing antics and telling funny stories
- Performing tricks of illusion and sleight of hand, and feats of hypnotism
- Performing difficult and spectacular acrobatics, and gymnastic or juggling feats
- Training and performing with animals
- Indoors and outdoors
- A mix of sitting and standing
- Lots of contact with people
- Some freedom to decide
- Usually under 40 hours a week
- Deadlines most weeks
- Varied tasks, little repetition
Will there be jobs?
Average prospectsA typical number of jobs will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
What does it pay?
Above averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €1,800 a month (Bulgaria) to €8,800 (Luxembourg), before tax.
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Among professionals in the EU, women earn 21% less per hour than men. Professionals · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Usually a degreeA degree is the usual route.
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Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.13 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 4 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for creative and performing artists not elsewhere classified. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).