The 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.

General Introduction

Bruce McConachie

Part I: Artistry

Introduction

Rick Kemp






Stanislavsky’s prescience: The conscious self in the system and Active Analysis
as a theory of mind

Sharon Marie Carnicke




The improviser’s lazy brain: improvisation and cognition
Gunter Lösel




Devising – embodied creation in distributed systems
Rick Kemp




Embodied cognition and Shakespearean performance
Darren Tunstall




The remains of ancient action: Understanding affect and empathy in Greek drama
Peter Meineck




Minding implicit constraints in dance improvisation
Pil Hansen




Applying developmental epistemic cognition to theatre for young audiences
Jeanne Klein




4E cognition for directing: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and Caryl Churchill’s
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

Rhonda Blair




Acting and Emotion
Vladimir Mirodan



Part II: Learning

Introduction

Bruce McConachie




Improvising communication in Pleistocene performances
Bruce McConachie




Ritual transformation and transmission
David Mason




Communities of gesture: Empathy and embodiment in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane
Dance Company’s 100 Migrations

Ariel Nereson




Creative storytelling, crossing boundaries, high-impact learning and
social engagement

Nancy Kindelan




From banana phones to the bard: The developmental psychology of acting
Thalia R. Goldstein




'I'm giving everybody notes using his body': Framing actors’ observation of performance
Claire Syler




Acting technique, Jacques Lecoq, and embodied meaning
Rick Kemp



Part III: Scholarship

Introduction

Bruce McConachie




Systems theory, enaction and performing arts
Gabriele Sofia




Watching movement: Phenomenology, cognition, performance
Stanton B. Garner, Jr.




Attention to theatrical performances
James Hamilton




Emergence, meaning and presence: An interdisciplinary approach to a disciplinary question
Amy Cook




Relishing performance: Rasa as participatory sense-making
Erin B. Mee




The self, ethics, agency and tragedy
David Palmer




Aesthetics and the sensible
John Lutterbie




Talk this dance: On the conceptualization of dance as fictive conversation
Ana Margarida Abrantes and Esther Pascual




Distributed cognition: Studying theatre in the wild
Evelyn Tribble and Robin Dixon



Part IV: Translational Applications

Introduction

Rick Kemp






A theatrical intervention to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s and other forms of
dementia

Tony and Helga Noice




The Performance of Caring: Theatre, empathetic communication and healthcare
Rick Kemp and Rachel DeSoto-Jackson




Awareness performing: Practice and protocol
Experience Bryon




Imagining the ecologies of autism
Melissa Trimingham and Nicola Shaughnessy


Toward consilience: Integrating performance history with the coevolution
of our species

Bruce McConachie