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Affective Performance and Cognitive Science: Body, Brain and Being
Contributor(s): McConachie, Bruce (Contribution by), Blair, Rhonda (Contribution by), Cook, Amy (Contribution by)
ISBN: 1408183986     ISBN-13: 9781408183984
Publisher: Methuen Drama
OUR PRICE:   $188.10  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater - General
- Art
- Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Science & Technology
Dewey: 700.105
LCCN: 2013020880
Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.6" (1.10 lbs) 320 pages
 
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This book explores new developments in the dialogues between science and theatre and offers an introduction to a fast-expanding area of research and practice.The cognitive revolution in the humanities is creating new insights into the audience experience, performance processes and training. Scientists are collaborating with artists to investigate how our brains and bodies engage with performance to create new understanding of perception, emotion, imagination and empathy. Divided into four parts, each introduced by an expert editorial from leading researchers in the field, this edited volume offers readers an understanding of some of the main areas of collaboration and research:
1. Dances with Science
2. Touching Texts and Embodied Performance
3. The Multimodal Actor
4. Affecting Audiences

Throughout its history theatre has provided exciting and accessible stagings of science, while contemporary practitioners are increasingly working with scientific and medical material. As Honour Bayes reported in the Guardian in 2011, the relationships between theatre, science and performance are 'exciting, explosive and unexpected'. Affective Performance and Cognitive Science charts new directions in the relations between disciplines, exploring how science and theatre can impact upon each other with reference to training, drama texts, performance and spectatorship.

The book assesses the current state of play in this interdisciplinary field, facilitating cross disciplinary exchange and preparing the way for future studies.

Contributor Bio(s): Trimingham, Melissa: - Melissa Trimingham is senior lecturer in the department of drama, University of Kent, UK.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.Trimingham, Melissa: - Melissa Trimingham is senior lecturer in the department of drama, University of Kent, UK.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.'
She is the author of Applying Performance (2012), Gertrude Stein (2007) and co-editor of Margaret Woffington (2008).

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.