The Actor, Image, and Action

Blair, Rhonda L.

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“…While Whalley and Miller performed Partly Cloudy, Chance of Rain in 2002 and submitted their thesis in 2004, theatre and performance scholars were just beginning to do research on cognitive science, theatre, and performance. A host of the first books on cognitive approaches to performance marked the start of a new collective inquiry around 2006 (including McConachie and Hart 2006;Blair 2007;McConachie 2008). Cognitive Science, a relatively young field itself, is a vast and complex interdiscipline with its own heritages, embattlements, and disagreements.…”

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Thinking again: enaction as a resource for ‘practice as research’ in theatre and performance

Murphy

2023

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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In the context of global research culture, practitioner-researchers in theatre and performance have consistently struggled to best account for the embodied and emergent qualities of their subjects. As methodologies for 'practice as research' (PaR) in theatre and performance have developed since the 1990s, artistic researchers have often continued to define themselves against scientific conceptions of thinking, knowledge, and research to highlight the specific efficacies of artistic practice. I argue that this strategy genuinely hinders researchers, and that interdisciplinary approaches that move across the sciences, humanities, and arts are the key to robust accounts of theatre and performance. By revisiting a seminal PaR performance project, Joanne 'Bob' Whalley and Lee Miller's Partly Cloudy, Chance of Rain (2002), I suggest how interdisciplinary approaches such as enaction from the cognitive sciences should be integrated into PaR methodologies to better address the complexity and richness of embodiment and emergence in theatre and performance.

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Thinking again: enaction as a resource for ‘practice as research’ in theatre and performance

Murphy

2023

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“…1 Strikingly, theater scholars have not been equally reticent. There is today a burgeoning field of neuro-cognitive theater studies whose contributors have no qualms whatsoever about reaching out to the hard sciences (McConachie 2008;McConachie and Hart 2010;Blair 2008;Lutterbie 2011;Cook 2010). What these scholars want to know is inter alia how performances are interpreted by audiences; how attention, memory and imagination work; and how our explicit interpretation of a play relates to our intuitive appreciation of it (McConachie 2010, p. x).…”

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“…23-63;cf. Lakoff andJohnson 1999, 2003;Blair 2008Blair , 2009Damasio 1994;Fauconnier and Turner 2003;LeDoux 1996). Meanwhile, Amy Cook discusses the cognitive mechanisms that allowed actors in Shakespeare's time to remember their lines, and John Lutterbie draws on the writings of Evan Thompson, Marc Lewis, and J.A.…”

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How do performances fuse societies?

Ringmar

2019

Am J Cult Sociol

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This article discusses Jeffrey Alexander's work on social performances. All societies, says Alexander, need a measure of integration-they need to be "fused"-for a common, properly social, life to be possible. In simple societies, this is achieved by means of rituals; in complex societies, it is achieved by means of the theater. In both cases, performances are understood in analogy with "texts" which are "read." Although explicit interpretations indeed are crucial for our understanding of a performance, audience members make sense of what they see in more direct, more embodied, ways as well. Cognitive neuroscience can help us understand how performances affect us and thereby how societies are fused.

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Thinking again: enaction as a resource for ‘practice as research’ in theatre and performance

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