Practice, Research, and Cognition in Devised Performance - (Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues) by Maiya Murphy (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- This interdisciplinary study explores devised performance and practice research at the intersection of the cognitive sciences and arts.
- About the Author: Maiya Murphy is a practitioner-researcher and Associate Professor in the Theatre and Performance Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore.
- 232 Pages
- Performing Arts, Theater
- Series Name: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
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About the Book
This interdisciplinary study explores devised performance and practice research at the intersection of the cognitive sciences and arts.Book Synopsis
This interdisciplinary study explores devised performance and practice research at the intersection of the cognitive sciences and arts.
It interrogates relationships between epistemology and cognition, action and aesthetics, and first-person experience and third-person investigation. Pairing practice research methodologies from theatre and performance with cognitive and neuroscientific approaches-both theoretical and empirical-it reveals new insights into the practices of collective creation in theatre. To foreground the insider knowledge inherent to practice research, the main case studies are works created and performed by Maiya Murphy's international movement-based devising collective, Autopoetics. Autopoetics' work is contextualized in reference to major international devising companies, dance companies, and interdisciplinary research projects including Complicité, Frantic Assembly, Forced Entertainment, Tectonic Theater Project, The Necessary Stage, Company Wayne McGregor, Australian Dance Theatre, Choreography and Cognition, Motion Bank and Watching Dance: Kinesthetic Empathy. Practice, Research, and Cognition in Devised Performance proposes a model for breaking down disciplinary silos to freshly access the processes of collaborative practice and invigorate research in the humanities and arts.Review Quotes
"Through its focus on cognitive approaches to devising this book offers an original, interdisciplinary and contemporary contribution to theatre and performance studies with a wealth of practical and theoretical strategies for readers to apply to their own work." --Nicola Shaughnessy, University of Kent, UK
About the Author
Maiya Murphy is a practitioner-researcher and Associate Professor in the Theatre and Performance Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore. She is the author of Enacting Lecoq: Movement in Theatre, Cognition, and Life (2019). Her work has also appeared in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews; Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Context, Achievements; Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences; Constructivist Foundations; Theatre, Dance and Performance Training; New Theatre Quarterly; Theatre Survey; The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq; The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater; and Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance.Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .56 Inches (D)
Weight: .92 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 232
Genre: Performing Arts
Sub-Genre: Theater
Series Title: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Maiya Murphy
Language: English
Street Date: August 21, 2025
TCIN: 1005223879
UPC: 9781350279452
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-4509
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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