Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Portuguese performance art? -- 1 A critical conceptualisation from hybridism -- 2 From proto-performances to performance art -- 3 Performance: a disciplinarily (in)operative concept -- 4 From hybridity to performance meta-hybridism -- Conclusion: the art of performance as the art of the (in)communicability of history -- Bibliography -- Index