Performing the Remembered Present: The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music
This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory. The strongly embodied and highly trained memory systems of performing artists render artistic practice a rich context for understanding how memory is formed, utilized and adapted through interaction with others, instruments and environments. Using experimental, interpretive and Practice-as-Research methods that bridge disciplines, the authors provide overview chapters and case studies of subjects such as:

* collectively and environmentally distributed memory in the performing arts;
* autobiographical memory triggers in performance creation and reception;
* the journey from learning to memory in performance training;
* the relationship between memory, awareness and creative spontaneity, and
* memorization and embodied or structural analysis of scores and scripts.

This volume provides an unprecedented resource for scientists, scholars, artists, teachers and students looking for insight into the cognition of memory in the arts, strategies of learning and performance, and interdisciplinary research methodology.

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Performing the Remembered Present: The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music
This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory. The strongly embodied and highly trained memory systems of performing artists render artistic practice a rich context for understanding how memory is formed, utilized and adapted through interaction with others, instruments and environments. Using experimental, interpretive and Practice-as-Research methods that bridge disciplines, the authors provide overview chapters and case studies of subjects such as:

* collectively and environmentally distributed memory in the performing arts;
* autobiographical memory triggers in performance creation and reception;
* the journey from learning to memory in performance training;
* the relationship between memory, awareness and creative spontaneity, and
* memorization and embodied or structural analysis of scores and scripts.

This volume provides an unprecedented resource for scientists, scholars, artists, teachers and students looking for insight into the cognition of memory in the arts, strategies of learning and performance, and interdisciplinary research methodology.

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Performing the Remembered Present: The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music

Performing the Remembered Present: The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music

Performing the Remembered Present: The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music

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This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory. The strongly embodied and highly trained memory systems of performing artists render artistic practice a rich context for understanding how memory is formed, utilized and adapted through interaction with others, instruments and environments. Using experimental, interpretive and Practice-as-Research methods that bridge disciplines, the authors provide overview chapters and case studies of subjects such as:

* collectively and environmentally distributed memory in the performing arts;
* autobiographical memory triggers in performance creation and reception;
* the journey from learning to memory in performance training;
* the relationship between memory, awareness and creative spontaneity, and
* memorization and embodied or structural analysis of scores and scripts.

This volume provides an unprecedented resource for scientists, scholars, artists, teachers and students looking for insight into the cognition of memory in the arts, strategies of learning and performance, and interdisciplinary research methodology.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350118843
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/27/2019
Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

John Lutterbie is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theatre Arts and the Department of Art at Stony Brook University, USA. He is the director of the International Network for Cognition, Theatre and Performance.

Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent. 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).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction: Studying the Cognition of Memory in the Performing Arts- Pil Hansen and Bettina Bläsing (University of Calgary, Canada and Bielefeld University, Germany)

PART I) Overview: Memory and the Performing Arts
2. Memory and Dance: 'Bodies of Knowledge' in Contemporary Dance - Catherine J. Stevens (Western Sydney University, Australia)
Review of insights from experimental psychology
3. Memory in Music Listening and Performance - Jane Ginsborg (Royal Northern College of Music, UK)
Cross-disciplinary review
4. Distributed Cognition, Memory and Theatrical Performance - Evelyn Tribble (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Analytical theory construction and review

PART II) Learning to Perform from Memory: Effects of Embodiment, Analysis and Expertise
5. Action, Memory and Meaning: Embodied Cognition and the Actor's Fictional Present - Rick Kemp (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Analytical theory construction
6. Learning Complex Actions Through Physical vs. Observational Experience: Implications and Applications for Dance and Other Performing Arts - Dilini K. Sumanapala and Emily S. Cross (Bangor University, UK)
Neurocognitive review and quantitative experiment
7. Analytical Aspects in Children's Performance of Music from Memory - Anna Maria Bordin (Conservatory of Genoa, Italy)
Mixed methods behavioural experiment

PART III) Re/Constructing Embodied Memories: Relationships between Memory and Self in Performance
8. Music Improvisation, Identity and Embodied Cognition - Robert J. Oxoby (University of Calgary, Canada)
Quantitative, behavioural experiments
9. Dancing With a Bullet: Moving into Memory with Music - Vahri McKenzie (Edith Cowan University, Western Australia)
Qualitative case study
10. Already Seen, Already Heard, Already Visited: Constructing the Experience of Déjà States within Live Intermedial Performance - Deidre McLaughlin and Joanne Scott ( The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK and University of Salford, UK)
Practice as Research investigation

Notes
References
Index

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