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Zusatztext "Playful! intense! and deeply informed by examples drawn from recent performances! critical theory! and scholarship."- P. Finley! University of Nevada! Las Vegas in CHOICE Informationen zum Autor Patrice Pavis has been Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Paris VIII since 1987. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 SELF-REFLEXIVITY SEMIOLOGY SENSATION SENSE OF SMELL SESSION