Operational concepts in performance studies

This article highlights an introduction over performance studies with the goal of introducing four of their principal concepts: social drama, liminarity, communitas and performativity. The Social dramatism accomplishes a view of reality utilizing a theatre vocabulary, such as actor, character, conflict, scene etc. Liminarity is the gap condition of a novice in a passage ritual, being communitas the group feeling that they develop as a mutual recognition. Performativity is the actional state of a performance, also understood as virtual reality.