The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science (Paperback, 1)

General Introduction Part I: Artistry; Introduction; Stanislavsky’s prescience: The conscious self in the system and Active Analysis as a theory of mind; The improviser’s lazy brain: improvisation and cognition; Devising ? embodied creation in distributed systems; Embodied cognition and Shakespearean performance; The remains of ancient action: Understanding affect and empathy in Greek drama; Minding implicit constraints in dance improvisation; Applying developmental epistemic cognition to theatre for young audiences; 4E cognition for directing: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and Caryl Churchill’s; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Acting and Emotion; Part II: Learning; Introduction ; Improvising communication in Pleistocene performances; Ritual transformation and transmission; Communities of gesture: Empathy and embodiment in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane ; Dance Company’s 100 Migrations; Creative storytelling, crossing boundaries, high-impact learning and social engagement; From banana phones to the bard: The developmental psychology of acting.