| Performing the Remembered Present: The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music Contributor(s): Hansen, Pil (Editor), Lutterbie, John (Editor), Bläsing, Bettina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1350118842 ISBN-13: 9781350118843 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $46.48 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Dance - General - Science | Cognitive Science - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.019 |
| Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.73 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory. The strongly embodied and highly trained memory systems of performing artists render artistic practice a rich context for understanding how memory is formed, utilized and adapted through interaction with others, instruments and environments. Using experimental, interpretive and Practice-as-Research methods that bridge disciplines, the authors provide overview chapters and case studies of subjects such as: * collectively and environmentally distributed memory in the performing arts;* autobiographical memory triggers in performance creation and reception; * the journey from learning to memory in performance training; * the relationship between memory, awareness and creative spontaneity, and * memorization and embodied or structural analysis of scores and scripts. This volume provides an unprecedented resource for scientists, scholars, artists, teachers and students looking for insight into the cognition of memory in the arts, strategies of learning and performance, and interdisciplinary research methodology. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hansen, Pil: - Dr. Pil Hansen is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director at the School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary, Canada; a founding member of Vertical City Performance; and a dramaturg. Her empirical and PaR experiments examine cognitive dynamics of memory and perception in creative processes. With Bruce Barton, she developed the multi-disciplinary research model 'Research-Based Practice'. Hansen chairs the PSi Working Group on Dramaturgy and Performance; her award-winning creative work has toured nationally and internationally; and her scholarly research is published in Connection Science, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, TDR: The Drama Review, Performance Research, Theatre Topics, and Koreografisk Journal among other journals and ten essay collections on dramaturgy, cognitive performance studies, and research methods. Hansen co-edited the essay collection Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement (2015). Current and recent artistic collaborators are: Kaeja d'Dance, Theatre Junction Grand, Toronto Dance Theatre, and Public Recordings.Lutterbie, John: - Professor John Lutterbie is Chair of the Departments of Art and of Theatre Arts at Stony Brook University, USA, and is on the board of directors of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.Shaughnessy, Nicola: - Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent. She is Director of the Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance and is leading the AHRC funded project 'Imagining Autism.' |