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THE ROUTLEDGE DICTIONARY OF PERFORMANCE AND CONTEMPORARY THEATRE The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance provides the first authorita- tive alphabetical guide to the last 30 years’ theatre and performance. Conceived and written by one of the foremost scholars and critics of theatre in the world, it 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 dec- ades. Similarly, the ways in which these terms are defined, used and critiqued has also changed, thanks to interventions from a panoply of theorists from Derrida to Rancière. Patrice Pavis’s Dictionary provides an indispensable roadmap for this complex and fascinating terrain; a volume no theatre bookshelf can afford to be without. Patrice Pavis has been Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Paris VIII since 1987, and is now Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Kent. This Page is Intentionally Left Blank THE ROUTLEDGE DICTIONARY OF PERFORMANCE AND CONTEMPORARY THEATRE Patrice Pavis Translated by Andrew Brown First published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2016 Patrice Pavis The right of Patrice Pavis to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Original title: Dictionnaire de la performance et du théâtre contemporain by Patrice Pavis © ARMAND-COLIN, Paris, 2014 ARMAND-COLIN is a trademark of DUNOD Editeur – 5, rue Laromiguière – 75005 PARIS. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Names: Pavis, Patrice, 1947- | Brown, Andrew. Title: The Routledge dictionary of performance and contemporary theatre / Patrice Pavis; translated by Andrew Brown. Other titles: Dictionnaire de la performance et du théâtre contemporain. English Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2015036935| ISBN 9781138854352 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315721156 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Performing arts—Dictionaries. | Theater—Dictionaries. Classification: LCC PN1579 .P3813 2016 | DDC 791.03—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036935 ISBN: 978-1-138-85435-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-72115-6 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface x Acknowledgements xiv Typographic conventions xv Activism 1 Aerial art 2 Aesthetic experience 2 Aesthetics 4 Affect 6 Apparatus 8 Appearance and disappearance 10 Applied theatre 11 Appropriation 11 Art brut 12 Artistic collective 13 Artistic proposal 13 Assemblage 14 Atmosphere 15 Aura 16 Authenticity 17 Author 20 Autobiography 21 Autofiction 22 Autoreflexivity 24 Autotheatre 24 Avant-garde 25 Awareness 28 Bizarre 29 Body and corporeality 29 Body art 32 Border 34 Caress 36 Choreography (and mise en scène) 36 Community 37 Community theatre 40 Contact improvisation 40 Contemporary 40 v CONTENTS Cosmopolitan theatre 41 Creolization 41 Cultural exception 42 Cultural performance 43 Curator 44 Cut-up 44 Cyborg 45 Dance-theatre 47 Decentring 49 Deconstruction 49 Détournement 51 Différance 52 Disfiguration 53 Disposition 53 Dissemination 54 Dramatic writing 54 Eccentricity 58 Effect produced 58 Ekphrasis 62 Embodiment 63 Empathy 64 Ending 64 Entertainment 67 Ethics 68 Ethnic theatre 70 Excess 71 Exoticism 72 Festivalization 75 Figure 76 Film performance 79 Flash mob 79 Flower 80 Fold 80 Freak show 81 Genetics 82 Globalization 86 Glocalization 91 Habitus 94 Haptic 94 Heightening/intensification 95 Hybridity 96 Identity 98 Immersive theatre 100 Indeterminacy 101 Installation 101 vi CONTENTS Interactivity 102 Interartistic 103 Intercultural theatre 104 Interpellation 108 Intersubjectivity 109 Intertextuality 110 Intervention 111 Intimacy 112 In-yer-face theatre 113 Kairos 115 Kinaesthesia 115 Landscape 117 Language-body 118 Laugh and smile 118 Lecture-performance 123 Life story 125 Liminality 127 Live art 127 Live broadcasting of performance 128 Live performance 128 Ma 130 Magic (new) 130 Mainstream 131 Materiality 132 Mediality and intermediality 133 Mediation 136 Minority 138 Mixed-means performances 139 Modernization 139 Movement 140 Multicultural 143 Multilingual theatre 144 Multimedia 145 Musicalization 145 Narractor 147 Neodramatic 147 New dramaturgy 147 New sites 152 One-to-one performance 153 Orientalism 153 Participation 156 Pathetic/pathic 156 Performance 157 Performance Studies 159 Performative theatre 162 vii CONTENTS Performative writing 162 Performativity 163 Philosophy and new theatre 168 Poetry and theatre 171 Politics and theatre 176 Popular 183 Postcolonial 185 Postdramatic 188 Postmodern theatre 195 Post-performance conversation 200 Posture 201 Practice as research 201 Pregnant moment 207 Presentation/representation 207 Process 208 Programming 208 Promenade performance 210 Proprioception 210 Proximization 211 Reconstruction 212 Recording 212 Recycling 213 Remediation 214 Rhetoric 215 Risk 216 Satori 218 Seating 218 Semiology 219 Sensation 224 Sense of smell 227 Session 227 Site-specific performance 228 Skin, flesh, bone 229 Social drama 231 Sociodrama 231 Soft power 231 Sonic writing 231 Sound in the theatre 232 Spacing 235 Speaking body 236 Special effects 236 Spectator 236 Stage-writer 243 Surface 243 Surtitles 244 Syncretic theatre 245 viii CONTENTS Tactility 246 Taste 246 Techniques of the body 248 Text 249 Texture 251 Theatre anthropology 252 Theatre for minorities 257 Theatre for tourists 258 Theatre of the real 258 Theatre performed in business meeting 261 Theatrical effect 261 Trace 262 Tradition 262 Trajectory 263 Transgression 265 Transmission 266 Visceral 269 Visual Studies 269 Visual theatre 269 Vocality 270 Walking 271 Word 273 Work of art 273 World theatre 275 Writing aloud 275 Zapping 277 Bibliography 279 Subject index 292 ix
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