« Under the influence of anthropologist such as Milton Singer and Victor Turner, the object of “theatre”, once it had stared to be observed in other cultures than European culture, went through a sea-charge from the 1970s onwards. Interest was no longer directed solely at performances, or text-based theatre with its representation, but all kinds of performing actions, mises en scène, happenings and types of performance art. To this we should add ceremonies, festivals, rituals, all that a culture can produce as a manifestation, an externalisation, in short as “performativity”. This “performativity” is always a production (also in the English sense of mise en scène) a productivity: the production of an experience, a situation of enunciation here and now, a meaning. »

Patrice Pavis, Performance and Contemporary Theatre, Londres : Routledge, 2016, p.164

« Performativity is not a singular act,but a repetition and a ritual,which achieves its effects through its naturalization in the context of a body,understood,in part,as a culturally sustained temporal duration. »

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Londres : Routledge, 1999, p.xv