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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Notes on contributors
General introduction
Part I: Artistry
Introduction
1 Stanislavsky’s prescience: the conscious self in the system and Active Analysis as a theory of mind
2 The improviser’s lazy brain: improvisation and cognition
3 Devising – embodied creativity in distributed systems
4 Embodied cognition and Shakespearean performance
5 The remains of ancient action: understanding affect and empathy in Greek drama
6 Minding implicit constraints in dance improvisation
7 Applying developmental epistemic cognition to theatre for young audiences
8 4E cognition for directing: Thornton Wilder’s Our Townand Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire91
9 Acting and emotion
Part II: Learning
Introduction
10 Improvising communication in Pleistocene performances
11 Ritual transformation and transmission
12 Communities of gesture: empathy and embodiment in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s 100 Migrations135
13 Creative storytelling, crossing boundaries, high-impact learning and social engagement
14 From banana phones to the bard: the developmental psychology of acting
15 ‘I’m giving everybody notes using his body’: framing actors’ observation of performance
16 Acting technique, Jacques Lecoq and embodied meaning
Part III: Scholarship
Introduction
17 Systems theory, enaction and performing arts
18 Watching movement: phenomenology, cognition, performance
19 Attention to theatrical performances
20 Emergence, meaning and presence: an interdisciplinary approach to a disciplinary question
21 Relishing performance: rasa as participatory sense-making
22 The self, ethics, agency and tragedy
23 Aesthetics and the sensible
24 Talk this dance: on the conceptualisation of dance as fictive conversation
25 Distributed cognition: studying theatre in the wild
Part IV: Translational Applications
Introduction
26 A theatrical intervention to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia
27 The performance of caring: theatre, empathetic communication and healthcare
28 Awareness performing: practice to protocol
29 Imagining the ecologies of autism
30 Towards consilience: integrating performance history with the co-evolution of our species
Glossary
Index
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