Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science

Rick Kemp is Professor of Theatre and Head of Acting and Directing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. An actor, director and Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar on Neuroscience and Art, his publications include Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Performance (2012) and The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq (2016).Bruce McConachie, Emeritus Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, has published widely in theatre history and cognitive studies. His scholarship includes Engaging Audiences (2008), Evolution, Cognition, and Performance (2015), and chapters in Theatre Histories: An Introduction (3rd edition, 2016). A former president of the American Society for Theatre Research, McConachie also acts and directs.

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• General IntroductionBruce McConachie Part I: ArtistryIntroductionRick Kemp Stanislavsky’s prescience: The conscious self in the system and Active Analysis as a theory of mindSharon Marie Carnicke The improviser’s lazy brain: improvisation and cognitionGunter Lösel Devising – embodied creation in distributed systemsRick Kemp Embodied cognition and Shakespearean performanceDarren Tunstall The remains of ancient action: Understanding affect and empathy in Greek dramaPeter Meineck Minding implicit constraints in dance improvisationPil Hansen Applying developmental epistemic cognition to theatre for young audiencesJeanne Klein 4E cognition for directing: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and Caryl Churchill’sLight Shining in BuckinghamshireRhonda Blair Acting and EmotionVladimir Mirodan Part II: LearningIntroduction Bruce McConachie Improvising communication in Pleistocene performancesBruce McConachie Ritual transformation and transmissionDavid Mason Communities of gesture: Empathy and embodiment in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s 100 MigrationsAriel Nereson Creative storytelling, crossing boundaries, high-impact learning and social engagementNancy Kindelan From banana phones to the bard: The developmental psychology of actingThalia R. Goldstein 'I'm giving everybody notes using his body': Framing actors’ observation of performanceClaire Syler Acting technique, Jacques Lecoq, and embodied meaningRick Kemp Part III: ScholarshipIntroductionBruce McConachie Systems theory, enaction and performing artsGabriele Sofia Watching movement: Phenomenology, cognition, performanceStanton B. Garner, Jr. Attention to theatrical performancesJames Hamilton Emergence, meaning and presence: An interdisciplinary approach to a disciplinary questionAmy Cook Relishing performance: Rasa as participatory sense-makingErin B. Mee The self, ethics, agency and tragedyDavid Palmer Aesthetics and the sensibleJohn Lutterbie Talk this dance: On the conceptualization of dance as fictive conversationAna Margarida Abrantes and Esther Pascual Distributed cognition: Studying theatre in the wildEvelyn Tribble and Robin Dixon Part IV: Translational ApplicationsIntroductionRick Kemp A theatrical intervention to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementiaTony and Helga Noice The Performance of Caring: Theatre, empathetic communication and healthcareRick Kemp and Rachel DeSoto-Jackson Awareness performing: Practice and protocolExperience Bryon Imagining the ecologies of autismMelissa Trimingham and Nicola Shaughnessy Toward consilience: Integrating performance history with the coevolutionof our speciesBruce McConachie