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This interdisciplinary study of devised theatre explores devising as research practice through the intersection of cognitive sciences and the arts. It interrogates relationships between epistemology and cognition, action and aesthetics, and first-person experience and third-person investigation. Pairing practice research methodologies from theatre and performance with cognitive and neuroscientific approaches both theoretical and empirical it reveals new insights into the practices of collective creation in theatre. To foreground the insider knowledge inherent to practice research, the main case studies are works created and performed by Maiya Murphy's international movement-based devising collective, Autopoetics. Autopoetics' work is contextualized in reference to major international devising companies including Complicité, Tectonic Theater Project, SITI Company, Frantic Assembly, and Gecko Theatre, and empirical and practice-based research on embodied performance including major dan

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/21/2025
      ISBN13: 9781350279452, 978-1350279452
      ISBN10: 1350279455
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      Book Synopsis
      This interdisciplinary study of devised theatre explores devising as research practice through the intersection of cognitive sciences and the arts. It interrogates relationships between epistemology and cognition, action and aesthetics, and first-person experience and third-person investigation. Pairing practice research methodologies from theatre and performance with cognitive and neuroscientific approaches both theoretical and empirical it reveals new insights into the practices of collective creation in theatre. To foreground the insider knowledge inherent to practice research, the main case studies are works created and performed by Maiya Murphy's international movement-based devising collective, Autopoetics. Autopoetics' work is contextualized in reference to major international devising companies including Complicité, Tectonic Theater Project, SITI Company, Frantic Assembly, and Gecko Theatre, and empirical and practice-based research on embodied performance including major dan

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