Affective Performance and Cognitive Science

Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent, UK. 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).

General Introduction: Operating in Science Theatres
Nicola Shaughnessy

Part 1 Dances with Science
Introduction: Interdisciplinarity and Cognitive Approaches to Performance
Evelyn B. Tribble and John Sutton

1 Researching Dance Across Disciplinary Paradigms: A Reflective Discussion of the Watching Dance Project
Matthew Reason, Dee Reynolds, Marie-Hélène Grosbras and Frank E. Pollick
2 Retracing our Steps … On When We Were Birds, a work in progress
Anna Furse
3 Uncertain Knowledge: Representing Physical Pain through Performance
Erin Hood

Part 2 Touching Texts and Embodied Performance
Introduction: Texts and Embodied Performance
Amy Cook
4 An Exercise in Shame: The Blush in A Woman Killed With Kindness
Natalie Bainter
5 Wayfaring in Everyday Life: The Unravelling of Intricacy
John Lutterbie
6 Between Faulty Intellects and Failing Bodies: An Economy of Reciprocity in Wit and 33 Variations
Naomi Rokotnitz

Part 3 The Multimodal Actor
Introduction: The Multimodal Practitioner
Rhonda Blair
7 Embodied Memory and Extra-Daily Gesture
Neal Utterback
8 Footage: Surface Feelings
Martin Welton
9 The Effect of Theatre Training on Cognitive Functions
Gabriele Sofia

Part 4 Affecting Audiences
Introduction: Spectating as Sandbox Play
Bruce McConachie
10 (Syn)aesthetics and Immersive Theatre: Embodied Beholding in Lundahl & Seitl’s Rotating in a Room of Images
Josephine Machon
11 Politics in the Dark: Risk Perception, Affect and Emotion in Lundahl & Seitl’s Rotating in a Room of Images
Adam Alston
12 Touched by Meaning: Haptic Effect in Autism
Melissa Trimingham

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