Short answers, pulled from the story.
The arts, or creative arts, are a vast range of human practices involving creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. These activities encompass diverse modes of thought, deeds, and existence in an extensive range of media.
Classical ballet emerged in the 17th century in which orchestral music is combined with dance. This discipline falls under performing arts where human movement serves as a form of expression presented in social, spiritual, or performance settings.
The arts have been classified into seven forms: painting, architecture, sculpture, literature, music, theatre, and filmmaking. Some Francophone scholarship adds television as the eighth art and comics as the ninth art.
Alexander Pushkin attracted the irritation of Russian officialdom particularly Emperor Alexander I since he composed extremely arrogant independent and wicked verse in which dangerous freedom of thought was evident. Artists often use their work to express political views and promote social change from negatively influencing through hate speech to positively influencing through artivism.
The Catholic Church declared in 1963 that the arts are not exempt from the absolute primacy of the objective moral order. Governments use art or propaganda to promote their own agendas while artists may act as free spirits against such constraints.