Compared to text-based performances, those of a non-text-based nature can illustrate unity between cultures with less difficulty thanks to universally understood practices and semiotics in an increasingly globalized world. Non-text based performances provide both beneficial and critical elements over text based performances and this will be analyzed and demonstrated with the example of 'dark arts performance'. Performances with ritualized purposes, prestige spectacles, illusory performances, stage deceptions and what is identified as "magic" (rather than supernatural phenomena or witchcraft) will follow in order to theorize how non-text-based performances have shaped modern cultures, in part through globalization, while creating a comparison with text-based performances. The type of 'magic' sought is known as what Simon Durante calls 'secular' magic – that of the kind that is not associated with religious or spiritual matters. It is instead an act of performance, primarily for entertainment purposes. It is no less a performance simply because it does not follow the rigid boundaries that often come with text-based performances. There is a fine line between what is and what is not classified as performance, as Richard Schechner defined performance as "a broad spectrum or continuum of human actions ranging from ritual, to play, to popular entertainment, to the arts of entertainment (theatre, dance, music) into performances of everyday life on gender, race and class roles and on healing (from shamanism to surgery)'. He continues by stating that “there is no historically or culturally fixable limit to what is or it's not a performance. Along the continuum new genres are added and others are eliminated. The underlying movement is that...... middle of the paper ......express opinions on the performances and the videos of the same to world, it's easier than ever. Works Cited During, Simon. Modern Spells, The Cultural Power of Secular Magic. United States of America: Harvard University Press, 2002. Print.Mangan, Michael of evocation. Bristol: Intellect, 2007. Print.Schechner, Richard. The future of ritual. London: Routledge, 1993. Print.Schechner, Richard. Performance studies: An introduction. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2013. Print.Schechner, Richard and Willa Appel. Through performance, intercultural studies on theater and ritual. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Print.Steinkraus, Warren E. 'The Art of Evocation'. Journal of Aesthetic Education 13.4 (1979): 17-27. Print.Zarrilli, Phillip et al. Stories of the theatre, an introduction. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2010. Print.