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 to create new understanding of perception; emotion; imagination and empathy. Divided into four parts; each introduced by an expert editorial from leading researchers in the field; this edited volume offers readers an understanding of some of the main areas of collaboration and research:1. Dances with Science 2. Touching Texts and Embodied Performance 3. The Multimodal Actor 4. Affecting Audiences Throughout its history theatre has provided exciting and accessible stagings of science; while contemporary practitioners are increasingly working with scientific and medical material. As Honour Bayes reported in the Guardian in 2011; the relationships between theatre; science and performance are exciting; explosive and unexpected. Affective Performance and Cognitive Science charts new directions in the relations between disciplines; exploring how science and theatre can impact upon each other with reference to training; drama texts; performance and spectatorship.The book assesses the current state of play in this interdisciplinary field; facilitating cross disciplinary exchange and preparing the way for future studies.
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