Theatre Performance And Cognition

Author : Rhonda Blair,Amy Cook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472591814

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Theatre, Performance and Cognition by Rhonda Blair,Amy Cook Pdf

Theatre, Performance and Cognition introduces readers to the key debates, areas of research, and applications of the cognitive sciences to the humanities, and to theatre and performance in particular. It features the most exciting work being done at the intersection of theatre and cognitive science, containing both selected scientific studies that have been influential in the field, each introduced and contextualised by the editors, together with related scholarship from the field of theatre and performance that demonstrates some of the applications of the cognitive sciences to actor training, the rehearsal room and the realm of performance more generally. The three sections consider the principal areas of research and application in this interdisciplinary field, starting with a focus on language and meaning-making in which Shakespeare's work and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia are considered. In the second part which focuses on the body, chapters consider applications for actor and dance training, while the third part focuses on dynamic ecologies, of which the body is a part.

Author : John Lutterbie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474256834

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An Introduction to Theatre, Performance and the Cognitive Sciences by John Lutterbie Pdf

This is the first textbook designed for students, practitioners and scholars of the performing arts who are curious about the power of the cognitive sciences to throw light on the processes of performance. It equips readers with a clear understanding of how research in cognitive neuroscience has illuminated and expanded traditional approaches to thinking about topics such as the performer, the spectator, space and time, culture, and the text. Each chapter considers four layers of performance: conventional forms of theatre, performance art, and everyday life, offering an expansive vision of the impact of the cognitive sciences on performance in the widest sense. Written in an approachable style, An Introduction to Theatre, Performance and the Cognitive Sciences weaves together case studies of a wide range of performances with scientific evidence and post-structural theory. Artists such as Robert Wilson, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Ariane Mnouchkine, Bertolt Brecht, and Antonin Artaud are brought into conversation with theories of Gilles Deleuze, Shaun Gallagher, Alva Noë, Tim Ingold and the science of V. S. Ramachandran, Vittorio Gallese, and Antonio Damasio. John Lutterbie offers a complex understanding of not only the act of performing but the forces that mark the place of theatre in contemporary society. In drawing on a variety of scientific articles, Lutterbie provides readers with an accessible account of significant research in areas in the field and reveals how the sciences can help us understand the experience of art.

Author : Rhonda Blair,Amy Cook (Professor in English and theatre art),Nicola Shaughnessy,John Harry Lutterbie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 1472591828

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Theatre, Performance and Cognition by Rhonda Blair,Amy Cook (Professor in English and theatre art),Nicola Shaughnessy,John Harry Lutterbie Pdf

'Theatre, Performance and Cognition' introduces readers to the key debates, areas of research, and applications of the cognitive sciences to the humanities, and to theatre and performance in particular. It features the most exciting work being done at the intersection of theatre and cognitive science, containing both selected scientific studies that have been influential in the field.

Author : Bruce McConachie,F. Elizabeth Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135989460

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Performance and Cognition by Bruce McConachie,F. Elizabeth Hart Pdf

This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach. Following a comprehensive introduction, the contributors examine: the interfaces between cognitive studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, phenomenology and communication theory different ideas from cognitive studies that open up the meanings of several plays the process of acting and the work of Antonio Damasio theatrical response: the dynamics of perception, and the riots that greeted the 1907 production of The Playboy of the Western World. This original and authoritative work will be attractive to scholars and graduate students of drama, theatre, and performance.

Author : Rick Kemp,Bruce McConachie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351690362

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The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science by Rick Kemp,Bruce McConachie Pdf

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 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 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.

Author : Corinne Jola,Pil Hansen
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889714308

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Performance in Theatre and Everyday Life: Cognitive, Neuronal, and Applied Aspects of Acting by Corinne Jola,Pil Hansen Pdf

Author : Bruce McConachie,F. Elizabeth Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135989477

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Performance and Cognition by Bruce McConachie,F. Elizabeth Hart Pdf

This book invites theatre and performance scholars to incorporate many of the insights of cognitive science into their work and to begin considering all of their research projects from the perspective of cognitive studies. As well as including a comprehensive introduction to the challenges of cognitive studies for theatre and performance scholarship, the volume features essays in all of the major areas of theatre and performance. Several of the contributions use cognitive studies to challenge some of the key scholarly and practical orientations in theatre and performance studies. The experimentally based insights of cognitive science are shown to be at odds with Saussurean semiotics, psychoanalysis, and aspects of deconstruction, new historicism, and Foucauldian discourse theory. Performance and Cognition opens up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas –and sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach.

Author : Bruce McConachie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137015617

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Theatre and Mind by Bruce McConachie Pdf

All performance depends upon our abilities to create, perceive, remember, imagine and empathize. This book provides an introduction to the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of theatrical performing and spectating and argues that this scientific perspective challenges some of the major assumptions about what takes place in the theatre.

Author : Bruce McConachie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107091399

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Evolution, Cognition, and Performance by Bruce McConachie Pdf

Bruce McConachie explores the biocultural basis of performance, from the cognitive processes that facilitate it, to what keeps us engaged.

Author : Clelia Falletti,Gabriele Sofia,Victor Jacono
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472584809

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Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience by Clelia Falletti,Gabriele Sofia,Victor Jacono Pdf

This is the first volume to provide a detailed introduction to some of the main areas of research and practice in the interdisciplinary field of art and neuroscience. With contributions from neuroscientists, theatre scholars and artists from seven countries, it offers a rich and rigorous array of perspectives as a springboard to further exploration. Divided into four parts, each prefaced by an expert editorial introduction, it examines: * Theatre as a space of relationships: a neurocognitive perspective * The spectator's performative experience and 'embodied theatrology' * The complexity of theatre and human cognition * Interdisciplinary perspectives on applied performance Each part includes contributions from international pioneers of interdisciplinarity in theatre scholarship, and from neuroscientists of world-renown researching the physiology of action, the mirror neuron mechanism, action perception, space perception, empathy and intersubjectivity. While illustrating the remarkable growth of interest in the performing arts for cognitive neuroscience, this volume also reveals the extraordinary richness of exchange and debate born out of different approaches to the topics.

Author : J. Lutterbie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230119468

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Toward a General Theory of Acting by J. Lutterbie Pdf

Toward a General Theory of Acting explores the actor's art through the lens of Dynamic Systems Theory and recent findings in the Cognitive Sciences. An analysis of different theories of acting in the West from Stanislavski to Lecoq is followed by an in depth discussion of technique, improvisation, and creating a score. In the final chapter, the focus shifts to how these three are interwoven when the actor steps in front of an audience, whether performing realist, non-realist, or postdramatic theatre. Far from using the sciences to reduce acting to a formula, Lutterbie celebrates the mystery of the creative process.

Author : Pil Hansen,Bettina Bläsing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474284738

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Performing the Remembered Present by Pil Hansen,Bettina Bläsing Pdf

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.

Author : John Harry Lutterbie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Cognitive science
ISBN : 1474256848

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An Introduction to Theatre, Performance and the Cognitive Sciences by John Harry Lutterbie Pdf

"This is the first textbook designed for students, practitioners, and scholars of the performing arts who are curious about the power of the cognitive sciences to throw light on the processes of performance, It equips readers with a clear understanding of how research in cognitive neuroscience has illuminated and expanded traditional approaches to thinking about topics such as the performer, the spectator, space and time, cultur, and the text. Each chapter considers three layers of performance: conventional forms of theatre, performance art, and everyday life, offering an expansive vision of the impact of the cognitive sciences on performance in the widest sense"--Publisher description.

Author : E. Tribble
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230110851

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Cognition in the Globe by E. Tribble Pdf

Early modern playing companies performed up to six different plays a week and mounted new plays frequently. This book seeks to answer a seemingly simple question: how did they do it? Drawing upon work in philosophy and the cognitive sciences, it proposes that the cognitive work of theatre is distributed across body, brain, and world.

Author : Peter Meineck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315466569

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Theatrocracy by Peter Meineck Pdf

This book examines classical Greek theatre, asking how ancient drama operated in performance and became such an influential social, cultural and political force. Meineck approaches Greek theatre from the perspective of the cognitive sciences as an embodied live enacted event, and analyses how different performative elements acted upon audiences to create absorbing narrative action, emotional intensity, intellectual reflection and empathy. This was the key to the transformative artistic and social power that enabled Greek drama to advance alternate viewpoints. He also explores what the model of Greek drama can reveal about live theatre's value in cultural, social and political discourse today.