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.
Author(s): Patrice Pavis
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: xvi+295
Front Cover
The Routledge dictionary of performance and contemporary theatre
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Object
A new object?
The object of the inquiry and the quest
Choice of terms
Acknowledgements
Ite, missa est
Typographic conventions
A
Activism
Aerial art
Aesthetic experience
Aesthetics
Affect
Apparatus
Appearance and disappearance
Applied theatre
Appropriation
Art brut
Artistic collective
Artistic proposal
Assemblage
Atmosphere
Aura
Authenticity
Author
Autobiography
Autofiction
Autoreflexivity
Autotheatre
Avant-garde
Awareness
B
Bizarre
Body and corporeality
Body art
Border
C
Caress
Choreography (and mise en scène)
Community
Community theatre
Contact improvisation
Contemporary
Cosmopolitan theatre
Creolization
Cultural exception
Cultural performance
Curator
Cut-up
Cyborg
D
Dance-theatre
Decentring
Deconstruction
Détournement
Différance
Disfiguration
Disposition
Dissemination
Dramatic writing
E
Eccentricity
Effect produced
Ekphrasis
Embodiment
Empathy
Ending
Entertainment
Ethics
Ethnic theatre
Excess
Exoticism
F
Festivalization
Figure
Film performance
Flash mob
Flower
Fold
Freak show
G
Genetics
Globalization
Glocalization
H
Habitus
Haptic
Heightening/intensification
Hybridity
I
Identity
Immersive theatre
Indeterminacy
Installation
Interactivity
Interartistic
Intercultural theatre
Interpellation
Intersubjectivity
Intertextuality
Intervention
Intimacy
In-yer-face theatre
K
Kairos
Kinaesthesia
L
Landscape
Language-body
Laugh and smile
Lecture-performance
Life story
Liminality
Live art
Live broadcasting of performance
Live performance
M
Ma
Magic (new)
Mainstream
Materiality
Mediality and intermediality
Mediation
Minority
Mixed-means performances
Modernization
Movement
Multicultural
Multilingual theatre
Multimedia
Musicalization
N
Narractor
Neodramatic
New dramaturgy
New sites
O
One-to-one performance
Orientalism
P
Participation
Pathetic/Pathic
Performance
Performance Studies
Performative theatre
Performative writing
Performativity
Philosophy and new theatre
Poetry and theatre
Politics and theatre
Popular
Postcolonial
Postdramatic
Postmodern theatre
Post-performance conversation
Posture
Practice as research
Pregnant moment
Presentation/representation
Process
Programming
Promenade performance
Proprioception
Proximization
R
Reconstruction
Recording
Recycling
Remediation
Rhetoric
Risk
S
Satori
Seating
Semiology
Sensation
Sense of smell
Session
Site-specific performance
Skin, flesh, bone
Social drama
Sociodrama
Soft power
Sonic writing
Sound in the theatre
Spacing
Speaking body
Special effects
Spectator
Stage-writer
Surface
Surtitles
Syncretic theatre
T
Tactility
Taste
Techniques of the body
Text
Texture
Theatre anthropology
Theatre for minorities
Theatre for tourists
Theatre of the real
Theatre performed in business meeting
Theatrical effect
Trace
Tradition
Trajectory
Transgression
Transmission
V
Visceral
Visual Studies
Visual theatre
Vocality
W
Walking
Word
Work of art
World theatre
Writing aloud
Z
Zapping
Bibliography
Subject index
