CONTENTS

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

General introduction

Bruce McConachie

PART I: ARTISTRY

Introduction

Rick Kemp

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

Sharon Marie Carnicke

2 The improviser’s lazy brain: improvisation and cognition

Gunter Lösel

3 Devising – embodied creativity in distributed systems

Rick Kemp

4 Embodied cognition and Shakespearean performance

Darren Tunstall

5 The remains of ancient action: understanding affect and empathy in Greek drama

Peter Meineck

6 Minding implicit constraints in dance improvisation

Pil Hansen

7 Applying developmental epistemic cognition to theatre for young audiences

Jeanne Klein

8 4E cognition for directing: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

Rhonda Blair

9 Acting and emotion

Vladimir Mirodan

PART II: LEARNING

Introduction

Bruce McConachie

10 Improvising communication in Pleistocene performances

Bruce McConachie

11 Ritual transformation and transmission

David Mason

12 Communities of gesture: empathy and embodiment in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s 100 Migrations135

Ariel Nereson

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

Nancy Kindelan

14 From banana phones to the bard: the developmental psychology of acting

Thalia R. Goldstein

15 ‘I’m giving everybody notes using his body’: framing actors’ observation of performance

Claire Syler

16 Acting technique, Jacques Lecoq and embodied meaning

Rick Kemp

PART III: SCHOLARSHIP

Introduction

Bruce McConachie

17 Systems theory, enaction and performing arts

Gabriele Sofia

18 Watching movement: phenomenology, cognition, performance

Stanton B. Garner, Jr.

19 Attention to theatrical performances

James Hamilton

20 Emergence, meaning and presence: an interdisciplinary approach to a disciplinary question

Amy Cook

21 Relishing performance: rasa as participatory sense-making

Erin B. Mee

22 The self, ethics, agency and tragedy

David Palmer

23 Aesthetics and the sensible

John Lutterbie

24 Talk this dance: on the conceptualisation of dance as fictive conversation

Ana Margarida Abrantes and Esther Pascual

25 Distributed cognition: studying theatre in the wild

Evelyn Tribble and Robin Dixon

PART IV: TRANSLATIONAL APPLICATIONS

Introduction

Rick Kemp

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

Tony Noice and Helga Noice

27 The performance of caring: theatre, empathetic communication and healthcare

Rick Kemp and Rachel DeSoto-Jackson

28 Awareness performing: practice to protocol

Experience Bryon

29 Imagining the ecologies of autism

Melissa Trimingham and Nicola Shaughnessy

30 Towards consilience: integrating performance history with the co-evolution of our species

Bruce McConachie

Glossary

Shelby Brewster

Index