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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.
List of contents
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
S
Summary
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 ev
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"Playful, intense, and deeply informed by examples drawn from recent performances, critical theory, and scholarship."
- P. Finley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas in CHOICE
