Artists make these dance beats for audience (9)
I believe the answer is:
triptychs
'artists' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.
'these dance beats for audience' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'dance' could be 'trip' (trip can mean to dance or skip) and 'trip' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'make' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for triptychs that I've seen is " Paintings on three hinged panels".)