ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter 1A|28 pages
entry 1|1 pages
Activism
entry 2|1 pages
Aerial Art
entry 3|2 pages
Aesthetic Experience
entry 4|3 pages
Aesthetics
entry 5|3 pages
Affect
entry 6|3 pages
Apparatus
entry 7|2 pages
Appearance and Disappearance
entry 8|1 pages
Applied Theatre
entry 9|2 pages
Appropriation
entry 10|2 pages
Art Brut
entry 11|1 pages
Artistic Collective
entry 12|2 pages
Artistic Proposal
entry 13|2 pages
Assemblage
entry 14|2 pages
Atmosphere
entry 15|2 pages
Aura
entry 16|4 pages
Authenticity
entry 17|2 pages
Author
entry 18|2 pages
Autobiography
entry 19|3 pages
Autofiction
entry 20|1 pages
Autoreflexivity
entry 21|2 pages
Autotheatre
entry 22|4 pages
Avant-Garde
entry 23|1 pages
Awareness
letter 29B|7 pages
entry 24|1 pages
Bizarre
entry 25|4 pages
Body and Corporeality
entry 26|3 pages
Body Art
entry 27|2 pages
Border
letter 36C|11 pages
entry 28|1 pages
Caress
entry 29|2 pages
Choreography (and Mise En Scène)
entry 30|4 pages
Community
entry 31|1 pages
Community Theatre
entry 32|1 pages
Contact Improvisation
entry 33|2 pages
Contemporary
entry 34|1 pages
Cosmopolitan Theatre
entry 35|2 pages
Creolization
entry 36|2 pages
Cultural Exception
entry 37|1 pages
Cultural Performance
entry 38|1 pages
Curator
entry 39|2 pages
Cut-Up
entry 40|2 pages
Cyborg
letter 47D|11 pages
entry 41|2 pages
Dance-Theatre
entry 42|1 pages
Decentring
entry 43|3 pages
Deconstruction
entry 44|2 pages
Détournement
entry 45|1 pages
Différance
entry 46|1 pages
Disfiguration
entry 47|2 pages
Disposition
entry 48|1 pages
Dissemination
entry 49|4 pages
Dramatic Writing
letter 58E|17 pages
entry 50|1 pages
Eccentricity
entry 51|4 pages
Effect Produced
entry 52|2 pages
Ekphrasis
entry 53|2 pages
Embodiment
entry 54|1 pages
Empathy
entry 55|3 pages
Ending
entry 56|2 pages
Entertainment
entry 57|3 pages
Ethics
entry 58|2 pages
Ethnic Theatre
entry 59|2 pages
Excess
entry 60|3 pages
Exoticism
letter 75F|7 pages
entry 61|2 pages
Festivalization
entry 62|3 pages
Figure
entry 63|1 pages
Film Performance
entry 64|1 pages
Flashmob
entry 65|1 pages
Flower
entry 66|2 pages
Fold
entry 67|1 pages
Freak Show
letter 82G|12 pages
entry 68|5 pages
Genetics
entry 69|6 pages
Globalization
entry 70|3 pages
Glocalization
letter 94H|4 pages
entry 71|1 pages
Habitus
entry 72|2 pages
Haptic
entry 73|2 pages
Heightening/Intensification
entry 74|2 pages
Hybridity
letter 98I|17 pages
entry 75|3 pages
Identity
entry 76|1 pages
Immersive Theatre
entry 77|1 pages
Indeterminacy
entry 78|2 pages
Installation
entry 79|2 pages
Interactivity
entry 80|2 pages
Interartistic
entry 81|5 pages
Intercultural Theatre
entry 82|2 pages
Interpellation
entry 83|2 pages
Intersubjectivity
entry 84|2 pages
Intertextuality
entry 85|1 pages
Intervention
entry 86|1 pages
Intimacy
entry 87|2 pages
In-Yer-Face Theatre
letter 115K|2 pages
entry 88|1 pages
Kairos
entry 89|2 pages
Kinaesthesia
letter 117L|13 pages
entry 90|2 pages
Landscape
entry 91|1 pages
Language-Body
entry 92|6 pages
Laugh and Smile
entry 93|3 pages
Lecture-Performance
entry 94|2 pages
Life Story
entry 95|1 pages
Liminality
entry 96|2 pages
Live Art
entry 97|1 pages
Live Broadcasting of Performance
entry 98|2 pages
Live Performance
letter 130M|17 pages
entry 99|1 pages
Ma
entry 100|2 pages
Magic (New)
entry 101|2 pages
Mainstream
entry 102|2 pages
Materiality
entry 103|4 pages
Mediality and Intermediality
entry 104|3 pages
Mediation
entry 105|2 pages
Minority
entry 106|1 pages
Mixed-Means Performance
entry 107|2 pages
Modernization
entry 108|4 pages
Movement
entry 109|2 pages
Multicultural
entry 110|1 pages
Multilingual Theatre
entry 111|1 pages
Multimedia
entry 112|2 pages
Musicalization
letter 147N|6 pages
entry 113|1 pages
Narractor
entry 114|1 pages
Neodramatic
entry 115|6 pages
New Dramaturgy
entry 116|1 pages
New Sites
letter 153O|3 pages
entry 117|1 pages
One-to-One Performance
entry 118|3 pages
Orientalism
letter 156P|56 pages
entry 119|1 pages
Participation
entry 120|2 pages
Pathetic/Pathic
entry 121|3 pages
Performance
entry 122|3 pages
Performance Studies
entry 123|1 pages
Performative Theatre
entry 124|2 pages
Performative Writing
entry 125|6 pages
Performativity
entry 126|4 pages
Philosophy and New Theatre
entry 127|6 pages
Poetry and Theatre
entry 128|8 pages
Politics and Theatre
entry 129|2 pages
Popular
entry 130|4 pages
Postcolonial
entry 131|8 pages
Postdramatic
entry 132|6 pages
Postmodern Theatre
entry 133|2 pages
Post-Performance Conversation
entry 134|1 pages
Posture
entry 135|7 pages
Practice as Research
entry 136|1 pages
Pregnant Moment
entry 137|1 pages
Presentation/Representation
entry 138|1 pages
Process
entry 139|3 pages
Programming
entry 140|1 pages
Promenade Performance
entry 141|2 pages
Proprioception
entry 142|1 pages
Proximization
letter 212R|6 pages
entry 143|1 pages
Reconstruction
entry 144|2 pages
Recording
entry 145|2 pages
Recycling
entry 146|2 pages
Remediation
entry 147|2 pages
Rhetoric
entry 148|2 pages
Risk
letter 218S|28 pages
entry 149|1 pages
Satori
entry 150|2 pages
Seating
entry 151|6 pages
Semiology
entry 152|4 pages
Sensation
entry 153|1 pages
Sense of Smell
entry 154|2 pages
Session
entry 155|2 pages
Site-Specific Performance
entry 156|3 pages
Skin, Flesh, Bone
entry 157|1 pages
Social Drama
entry 158|1 pages
Sociodrama
entry 159|1 pages
Soft Power
entry 160|2 pages
Sonic Writing
entry 161|4 pages
Sound in the Theatre
entry 162|2 pages
Spacing
entry 163|1 pages
Speaking Body
entry 164|1 pages
Special Effects
entry 165|7 pages
Spectator
entry 166|1 pages
Stage-Writer
entry 167|2 pages
Surface
entry 168|2 pages
Surtitles
entry 169|1 pages
Syncretic Theatre
letter 246T|23 pages
entry 170|1 pages
Tactility
entry 171|3 pages
Taste
entry 172|2 pages
Techniques of the Body
entry 173|3 pages
Text
entry 174|1 pages
Texture
entry 175|6 pages
Theatre Anthropology
entry 176|1 pages
Theatre for Minorities
entry 177|1 pages
Theatre for Tourists
entry 178|4 pages
Theatre of the Real
entry 179|1 pages
Theatre Performed in Business Meeting
entry 180|1 pages
Theatrical Effect
entry 181|1 pages
Trace
entry 182|2 pages
Tradition
entry 183|2 pages
Trajectory
entry 184|2 pages
Transgression
entry 185|3 pages
Transmission
letter 269V|2 pages
entry 186|1 pages
Visceral
entry 187|1 pages
Visual Studies
entry 188|2 pages
Visual Theatre
entry 189|1 pages
Vocality
letter 271W|6 pages
entry 190|3 pages
Walking
entry 191|1 pages
Word
entry 192|2 pages
Work of Art
entry 193|1 pages
World Theatre
entry 194|2 pages
Writing Aloud
letter 277Z|2 pages
entry 195|2 pages
Zapping
