Summary
Patrice Pavis: Dictionary of Performance and Contemporary Theatre
The book shows the general situation in the field of performing arts, starting from a series of critical and theoretical concepts that have been increasingly used since the sixties of the twentieth century, and even more frequently at the beginning of the new millennium.
Since the 1980s, the theater has gone through at least three significant changes: the peak and decline of critical direction and classical repertoire, the establishment of the theater of pictures that brought together the most diverse stage practices and striving for aesthetic autonomy; equally rapid development and disappearance of intercultural theater. Along with this evolution of theater, which was still considered an aesthetic and fictitious work, the institutionalization of performance studies and cultural studies, in the pragmatic Anglophone world, became a significant phenomenon in the domain of culture and linguistics.
At the world level, the exponential growth of plays in culture - cultural performances, is a phenomenon that marked the beginning of this millennium. This book wants to bear witness to this performative turn and its consequences on the stage production, while not neglecting the aesthetic and artistic works of the continental tradition, which remain the main subject of this research.
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