Performative and Performativity: Sufi Festival at Fes Morocco as a Case Study.

Résumé

This article aims to study the differences among three important elements of behaviourism and people interaction. These three elements are; performance, performative and performativity in addition to the relationship that gathers all these elements with festivals and their impact on the audience behaviour. Besides, the article provides definitions of the three elements and other concerned terms like speech act. The main purpose of the article in to clarify each word alone and to mention its relation with the other from a general standpoint then from an artistic point of view.