Battle Ballet: Artistic Integrity vs. Commercial Viability

The Clyde Fitch Report: Performance art truly came into focus in 6th century Greece, thanks mainly to the worshippers of the god Dionysus. What originally started as ceremony quickly turned into a festival and, more importantly, a contest. The audience reaction would decide these contests, so performers had to think not only of what was artistically valid, but what would get the desired reaction.