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  • Practice, Research, and Cognition in Devised Performance

    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    This interdisciplinary study explores devised performance and practice research at the intersection of the cognitive sciences and arts.It interrogates relationships between epistemology and cognition, action and aesthetics, and first-person experience and third-person investigation. Pairing practice research methodologies from theatre and performance with cognitive and neuroscientific approaches ... Read more

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  • Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 2

    From the Curious to the Quantum

    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    Volume 2 of Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance investigates performances that illuminate the hidden recesses and inscrutable mysteries of the natural and human-made worlds.While the first volume of this series prioritizes public, outward-facing, and activist work at the intersections of art and science, this volume considers performances of localized, concealed, inexplicable, or ... Read more

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  • Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1

    From the Lab to the Streets

    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1: From the Lab to the Streets is the first of two volumes dedicated to the diverse sociocultural work of science-oriented performance. A dynamic volume of scholarly essays, interviews with scientists and artists, and creative entries, itexamines explicitly public-facing science performances that operate within and for specialist and non ... Read more

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  • Collaborative Embodied Performance

    Ecologies of Skill

    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    This book is about joint intelligence in action. It brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy and sport science to ask how tightly knit collaboration works. Contributors apply innovative methodologies to detailed case studies of martial arts, social interaction, freediving, site-specific artworks ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Performing Specimens

    Contemporary Performance And Biomedical Display

    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    Through an examination of examples from performance, museum displays and popular culture that stage the body as a specimen, Performing Specimens maps the relations between these performative acts and the medical practices of collecting, storing and showing specimens in a variety of modes and contexts. Moving from an examination of the medical and historical contexts of specimen display in the ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Theatre, Performance and the Cognitive Sciences

    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    This is the first textbook designed for students, practitioners and scholars of the performing arts who are curious about the power of the cognitive sciences to throw light on the processes of performance. It equips readers with a clear understanding of how research in cognitive neuroscience has illuminated and expanded traditional approaches to thinking about topics such as the performer, the ... Read more

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  • Affective Performance and Cognitive Science

    Body, Brain and Being

    Series series
    This book explores new developments in the dialogues between science and theatre and offers an introduction to a fast-expanding area of research and practice.The cognitive revolution in the humanities is creating new insights into the audience experience, performance processes and training. Scientists are collaborating with artists to investigate how our brains and bodies engage with performance ... Read more

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  • Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience

    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    This is the first volume to provide a detailed introduction to some of the main areas of research and practice in the interdisciplinary field of art and neuroscience. With contributions from neuroscientists, theatre scholars and artists from seven countries, it offers a rich and rigorous array of perspectives as a springboard to further exploration. Divided into four parts, each prefaced by an ... Read more

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  • Performing the Remembered Present

    The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music

    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory. The strongly embodied and highly trained memory systems of performing artists render artistic practice a rich context for understanding how memory is formed, utilized and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Performance and the Medical Body

    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    This edited collection focuses on performance practice and analysis that engages with medical and biomedical sciences. After locating the 'biologization' of theatre at the turn of the twentieth century, it examines a range of contemporary practices that respond to understandings of the human body as revealed by biomedical science.In bringing together a variety of analytical perspectives, the book ... Read more

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  • Theatre, Performance and Cognition

    Languages, Bodies and Ecologies

    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    Theatre, Performance and Cognition introduces readers to the key debates, areas of research, and applications of the cognitive sciences to the humanities, and to theatre and performance in particular. It features the most exciting work being done at the intersection of theatre and cognitive science, containing both selected scientific studies that have been influential in the field, each ... Read more

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