1st Edition

The Routledge Dictionary of Performance and Contemporary Theatre

By Patrice Pavis Copyright 2016
    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance provides the first authoritative alphabetical guide to the theatre and performance of the last 30 years.



    Conceived and written by one of the foremost scholars and critics of theatre in the world, it literally takes us from Activism to Zapping, analysing everything along the way from Body Art and the Flashmob to Multimedia and the Postdramatic.



    What we think of as 'performance' and 'drama' has undergone a transformation in recent decades. Similarly how these terms are defined, used and critiqued has also changed, thanks to interventions from a panoply of theorists from Derrida to Ranciere. Patrice Pavis's Dictionary provides an indispensible roadmap for this complex and fascinating terrain; a volume no theatre bookshelf can afford to be without.



     

    ACTIVISM



    AERIAL ART



    AFFECT



    APPEARANCE AND DISAPPEARANCE



    APPROPRIATION



    ARTISTIC COLLECTIVE



    ART BRUT



    ASSEMBLAGE



    ATMOSPHERE



    AURA



    AUTHENTICITY



    AUTHOR



    AUTOBIOGRAPHY



    AUTOFICTION



    AUTOREFLEXIVITY



    AUTOTHEATRE



    AVANT-GARDE



    AWARENESS



    BIZARRE



    BODY AND CORPOREALITY



    BODY ART



    CARESS



    CHOREOGRAPHY AND MISE EN SCÈNE



    COMMUNITY



    CONTACT IMPROVISATION



    CONTEMPORARY



    CREOLIZATION



    CULTURAL PERFORMANCE



    CURATOR



    CUT UP



    CYBORG



    DECENTRING



    DECONSTRUCTION



    DÉTOURNEMENT



    DIFFÉRANCE



    DISFIGURATION



    DISPOSITION



    ECCENTRICITY



    EFFECT PRODUCED



    EKPHRASIS



    EMBODIMENT



    EMPATHY



    ENDING



    ENTERTAINMENT



    ETHICS



    ETHNIC THEATRE



    EXCESS



    EXOTICISM



    FESTIVALISATION



    FIGURE



    FILM PERFORMANCE



    FLASHMOB



    FLOWER



    FOLD



    FREAK PERFORMANCE



    GENETICS



    GLOBALIZATION



    GLOCALIZATION



    HABITUS



    HAPTIC



    HEIGHTENING/INTENSIFICATION



    HYBRIDITY



    IDENTITY



    IMMERSION THEATRE



    INDETERMINACY



    INSTALLATION



    INTERACTIVITY



    INTERARTISTIC



    INTERCULTURAL THEATRE



    INTERPELLATION



    INTERSUBJECTIVITY



    INTERTEXTUALITY



    INTERVENTION



    INTIMACY



    IN-YER-FACE THEATRE



    KAIROS



    KINAESTHESIA



    LANDSCAPE



    LANGUAGE BODY



    LAUGH AND SMILE



    LECTURE-PERFORMANCE



    LIFE STORY



    LIMINALITY



    LIVE ART



    LIVE BROADCASTING OF PERFORMANCE



    LIVE PERFORMANCE



    MA



    MAGIC



    MAINSTREAM



    MATERIALITY



    MEDIALITY AND INTERMEDIALITY



    MEDIATION



    MINORITY



    MIXED-MEANS PERFORMANCES



    MODERNIZATION



    MOVEMENT



    MULTICULTURAL



    MULTILINGUAL THEATRE



    MUSICALIZATION



    NARRACTOR



    NEO-DRAMATIC



    NEW DRAMATURGY



    NEW SITES



    ONE-TO-ONE PERFORMANCE



    PARTICIPATION



    PATHETIC/PATHIC



    PERFORMANCE



    PERFORMANCE STUDIES



    PERFORMATIVE THEATRE



    PERFORMATIVE WRITING



    PERFORMATIVITY



    PROMENADE PERFORMANCE



    PHILOSOPHY AND NEW THEATRE



    POETRY AND THEATRE



    POLITICS AND THEATRE



    POPULAR



    POSTCOLONIAL



    POSTDRAMATIC



    POSTMODERN THEATRE



    POST-PERFORMANCE CONVERSATION



    PRACTICE AS RESEARCH



    PREGNANT MOMENT



    PRESENTATION/REPRESENTATION



    PROCESS



    PROGRAMMING



    PROPRIOCEPTION



    PROXIMISATION



    RECONSTRUCTION



    RECORDING



    RECYCLING



    REMEDIATION



    RHETORICS



    RISK



    SATORI



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    Biography

    Patrice Pavis has been Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Paris VIII since 1987.

    "Playful, intense, and deeply informed by examples drawn from recent performances, critical theory, and scholarship."

    - P. Finley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas in CHOICE