This chapter explores the origins of performative arts, focusing on their unique alignment with “evolutivity”— a concept that sees creativity as an adaptive-exaptive, associative mechanism beyond linear categorization. Performative arts, from theater and dance to spoken word, embody live experiences where the act of performance itself is central, reflecting life’s transient nature and engaging audiences in dynamic interactions. Unlike cinema, which captures performances for repeated viewing, performative arts rely on the immediacy of presence, highlighting their flexibility and adaptability. This chapter also examines prehistoric and cross-cultural origins of performance, including ritual burials, early musical instruments, and petroglyphs, as holistic expressions of early human creativity. By integrating evolutionary biology, it contends that such forms of expression arose as adaptive social practices, fostering community bonds and cultural transmission. These arts are positioned as essential to early human survival, serving as social adhesives and channels for transmitting knowledge and cultural identity. Tracing performative arts to their roots reveals their role in human development as reservoirs of possibility, transcending survival functions. The chapter ultimately suggests that these early practices, rather than evolutionary byproducts, were fundamental to cultural progression, interweaving performative and visual arts into a unified, evolutionary mechanism.