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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary studies and relevant social sciences) with insights from theatre and performance studies. This rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field dynamically advances critical and theoretical knowledge, as well as driving innovation in practice. The anthology includes 30 specially commissioned chapters, many written by authors who have been at the cutting-edge of research and practice in the field over the last 15 years. These authors offer many empirical answers to four significant questions:
- How can performances in theatre, dance and other media achieve more emotional and social impact?
- How can we become more adept teachers and learners of performance both within and outside of classrooms?
- What can the cognitive sciences reveal about the natu
Table of Contents
General Introduction
Bruce McConachie
Part I: Artistry
Introduction
Rick Kemp
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- Stanislavsky’s prescience: The conscious self in the system and Active Analysis
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as a theory of mind
Sharon Marie Carnicke
- The improviser’s lazy brain: improvisation and cognition
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Gunter Lösel
- Devising – embodied creation in distributed systems
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Rick Kemp
- Embodied cognition and Shakespearean performance
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Darren Tunstall
- The remains of ancient action: Understanding affect and empathy in Greek drama
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Peter Meineck
- Minding implicit constraints in dance improvisation
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Pil Hansen
- Applying developmental epistemic cognition to theatre for young audiences
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Jeanne Klein
- 4E cognition for directing: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and Caryl Churchill’s
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Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
Rhonda Blair
- Acting and Emotion
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Vladimir Mirodan
Part II: Learning
Introduction
Bruce McConachie
- Improvising communication in Pleistocene performances
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Bruce McConachie
- Ritual transformation and transmission
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David Mason
- Communities of gesture: Empathy and embodiment in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane
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Dance Company’s 100 Migrations
Ariel Nereson
- Creative storytelling, crossing boundaries, high-impact learning and
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social engagement
Nancy Kindelan
- From banana phones to the bard: The developmental psychology of acting
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Thalia R. Goldstein
- 'I'm giving everybody notes using his body': Framing actors’ observation of performance
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Claire Syler
- Acting technique, Jacques Lecoq, and embodied meaning
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Rick Kemp
Part III: Scholarship
Introduction
Bruce McConachie
- Systems theory, enaction and performing arts
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Gabriele Sofia
- Watching movement: Phenomenology, cognition, performance
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Stanton B. Garner, Jr.
- Attention to theatrical performances
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James Hamilton
- Emergence, meaning and presence: An interdisciplinary approach to a disciplinary question
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Amy Cook
- Relishing performance: Rasa as participatory sense-making
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Erin B. Mee
- The self, ethics, agency and tragedy
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David Palmer
- Aesthetics and the sensible
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John Lutterbie
- Talk this dance: On the conceptualization of dance as fictive conversation
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Ana Margarida Abrantes and Esther Pascual
- Distributed cognition: Studying theatre in the wild
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Evelyn Tribble and Robin Dixon
Part IV: Translational Applications
Introduction
Rick Kemp
- A theatrical intervention to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s and other forms of
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dementia
Tony and Helga Noice
- The Performance of Caring: Theatre, empathetic communication and healthcare
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Rick Kemp and Rachel DeSoto-Jackson
- Awareness performing: Practice and protocol
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Experience Bryon
- Imagining the ecologies of autism
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Melissa Trimingham and Nicola Shaughnessy
- Toward consilience: Integrating performance history with the coevolution
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of our species
Bruce McConachie
