Affective Performance and Cognitive Science

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-H l ne 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

Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent, UK. She is Director of the Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance and is leading the AHRC funded project 'Imagining Autism.' She is the author of Applying Performance (2012), Gertrude Stein (2007) and co-editor of Margaret Woffington (2008).