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Book SynopsisHave you ever prepared a speech until you knew it by heart and then found out that, when the moment arrives, the surprise and uniqueness of hic et nunc are inevitable? No matter how much you prepare a text, it will need improvisation to be used on a stage or in the street. But, what is the limit between improvisation and technique, experience and training? Can we scientifically measure the improvisation of a text?
This work aims to investigate in which dimension art meets science and how it happens. Artists need to discover new conceptual instruments that contribute to the probing of the laws of matter, social existence, and the human mind. The rigorous and fascinating trip that Anna Grazia Cafaro proposes to capture the sense, function, and nature of the actor's improvisation is a splendid and a unique example of a new alliance between art and science, predicted forty years ago by the scientist Ilya Prigogine and the philosopher Isabelle Stengers.
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Table of Contents
Prologue by José Sanchis Sinisterra – Introduction – The Actor’s Improvisation and Its Complexity – Improvisation and the Philosophy of Science – Improvisation Beyond Science – Conclusion – Bibliography.
