The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science / edited by Rick Kemp and Bruce McConachie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kemp, Rick, editor.

McConachie, Bruce, editor.

Taylor & Francis.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge companions

Routledge Companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Psychological aspects.

Performing arts--Psychological aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 pages) : 16 illustrations, text file, PDF.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, 2018.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The 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 includes30 specially commissioned chapters, many written by authors who have been at the cutting-edge of research and practice in the field over the last15 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 nature of drama and human nature in general? How can knowledge transfer, from a synthesis of science and performance, assist professionals such as nurses, care-givers, therapists and emergency workers in their jobs? A wide-ranging and authoritative guide, The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science is an accessible tool for not only students, but practitioners and researchers in the arts and sciences as well.

Contents:

General Introduction

Bruce McConachie

PartI: Artistry

Introduction

Rick Kemp

Stanislavskys prescience: The conscious self in the system and Active Analysis

as a theory of mind

Sharon Marie Carnicke

The improvisers lazy brain: improvisation and cognition

Gunter Lsel

Devising embodied creation in distributed systems

Rick Kemp

Embodied cognition and Shakespearean performance

Darren Tunstall

The remains of ancient action: Understanding affect and empathy in Greek drama

Peter Meineck

Minding implicit constraints in dance improvisation

Pil Hansen

Applying developmental epistemic cognition to theatre for young audiences

Jeanne Klein

4E cognition for directing: Thornton Wilders Our Town and Caryl Churchills

Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

Rhonda Blair

Acting and Emotion

Vladimir Mirodan

Part II: Learning

Improvising communication in Pleistocene performances

Ritual transformation and transmission

David Mason

Communities of gesture: Empathy and embodiment in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane

Dance Companys 100 Migrations

Ariel Nereson

Creative storytelling, crossing boundaries, high-impact learning and

social engagement

Nancy Kindelan

From banana phones to the bard: The developmental psychology of acting

Thalia R. Goldstein

'I'm giving everybody notes using his body': Framing actors observation of performance

Claire Syler

Acting technique, Jacques Lecoq, and embodied meaning

PartIII: Scholarship

Systems theory, enaction and performing arts

Gabriele Sofia

Watching movement: Phenomenology, cognition, performance

Stanton B. Garner, Jr.

Attention to theatrical performances

James Hamilton

Emergence, meaningand presence: An interdisciplinary approach to a disciplinary question

Amy Cook

Relishing performance: Rasa as participatory sense-making

Erin B. Mee

The self, ethics, agency and tragedy

David Palmer

Aesthetics and the sensible

John Lutterbie

Talk this dance: On the conceptualization of dance as fictive conversation

Ana Margarida Abrantes and Esther Pascual

Distributed cognition: Studying theatre in the wild

Evelyn Tribble and Robin Dixon

Part IV: Translational Applications

A theatrical intervention to lower the risk of Alzheimers and other forms of

dementia

Tony and Helga Noice

The Performance of Caring: Theatre, empathetic communication and healthcare

Rick Kemp and Rachel DeSoto-Jackson

Awareness performing: Practice and protocol

Experience Bryon

Imagining the ecologies of autism

Melissa Trimingham and Nicola Shaughnessy

Toward consilience: Integrating performance history with the coevolution

of our species

Bruce McConachie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781315169927

OCLC:

1053623208

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.