The Routledge Dictionary of Performance and Contemporary Theatre

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

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.

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, with the help of theorists from Derrida to Ranciere. Patrice Pavis's Dictionary provides an indispensible roadmap for this 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

SELF-REFLEXIVITY

SEMIOLOGY

SENSATION

SENSE OF SMELL

SESSION

SKIN, FLESH, BONE

SOCIAL DRAMA

SOCIODRAMA

SOFT POWER

SONIC WRITING

SOUND IN THE THEATRE

SPACING

SPEAKING BODY

SPECIAL EFFECTS

SPECTATOR

SPEECH

STANCE

SURFACE

SURTITLES

SYNCRETIC THEATRE

TACTILITY

TASTE

TECHNIQUES OF THE BODY

TEXT

TEXTURE

THEATRE ANTHROPOLOGY

THEATRE FOR MINORITIES

THEATRE FOR TOURISTS

THEATRE PERFORMED IN BUSINESS MEETING

THEATRICAL EFFECT

TRACE

TRAJECTORY

TRANSGRESSION

TRANSMISSION

VISCERAL

VISUAL STUDIES

VISUAL THEATRE

VOCALITY

WALKING

WORK OF ART

WORLD THEATRE

WRITING ALOUD

ZAPPING