Affective Performance and Cognitive Science : Body, Brain and Being (Hardcover)

General Introduction: Operating in Science Theatres Nicola Shaughnessy Part 1 Dances with Science Introduction: Interdisciplinarity and Cognitive Approaches to Performance Evelyn B. Tribble and John Sutton 1 Researching Dance Across Disciplinary Paradigms: A Reflective Discussion of the Watching Dance Project Matthew Reason, Dee Reynolds, Marie-Helene Grosbras and Frank E. Pollick 2 Retracing our Steps . On When We Were Birds, a work in progress Anna Furse 3 Uncertain Knowledge: Representing Physical Pain through Performance Erin Hood Part 2 Touching Texts and Embodied Performance Introduction: Texts and Embodied Performance Amy Cook 4 An Exercise in Shame: The Blush in A Woman Killed With Kindness Natalie Bainter 5 Wayfaring in Everyday Life: The Unravelling of Intricacy John Lutterbie 6 Between Faulty Intellects and Failing Bodies: An Economy of Reciprocity in Wit and 33 Variations Naomi Rokotnitz Part 3 The Multimodal Actor Introduction: The Multimodal Practitioner Rhonda Blair 7 Embodied Memory and Extra-Daily Gesture Neal Utterback 8 Footage: Surface Feelings Martin Welton 9 The Effect of Theatre Training on Cognitive Functions Gabriele Sofia Part 4 Affecting Audiences Introduction: Spectating as Sandbox Play Bruce McConachie 10 (Syn)aesthetics and Immersive Theatre: Embodied Beholding in Lundahl & Seitl's Rotating in a Room of Images Josephine Machon 11 Politics in the Dark: Risk Perception, Affect and Emotion in Lundahl & Seitl's Rotating in a Room of Images Adam Alston 12 Touched by Meaning: Haptic Effect in Autism Melissa Trimingham Notes Select Bibliography Index