Bruce McConachie
Rick Kemp
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
Rhonda Blair
Vladimir Mirodan
Bruce McConachie
10 Improvising communication in Pleistocene performances
Bruce McConachie
11 Ritual transformation and transmission
David Mason
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
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
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
Shelby Brewster