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Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience i Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues explores the interactions between science and performance, providing readers with a unique guide to current practices and research in this fast- expanding fi eld. Through shared themes and case studies, the series offers rigorous vocabularies and methods for empirical studies of performance, with each volume involving collaboration between performance scholars, practitioners and scientists. The series encompasses the modalities of performance to include drama, dance and music. SERIES EDITORS John Lutterbie Chair of the Departments of Art and of Theatre Arts at Stony Brook University, U SA Nicola Shaughnessy Professor of Performance at the University of Kent, U K IN THE SAME SERIES Affective Performance and Cognitive Science edited by Nicola Shaughnessy ISBN 978-1-4081-8398-4 Performance and the Medical Body edited by Alex Mermikides and Gianna Bouchard ISBN 978-1-4725-7078-9 Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies edited by Rhonda Blair and Amy Cook IBSN 978-1-4725-9179-1 ii Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience E dited by Clelia Falletti, Gabriele Sofi a and Victor Jacono Bloomsbury Methuen Drama An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc LONDON • OXFORD • NEW YORK • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY iii Bloomsbury Methuen Drama An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint previously known as Methuen Drama 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York W C 1B 3D P NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY, METHUEN DRAMA and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2016 © Clelia Falletti, Gabriele Sofi a and Victor Jacono and contributors, 2016 Clelia Falletti, Gabriele Sofi a and Victor Jacono have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identifi ed as authors of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. British Library Cataloguing-i n-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN : HB : 978-1-4725-8478-6 e PDF : 978-1-4725-8480-9 ePub: 978-1-4725-8479-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by Refi neCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk iv To those who live at the crossroads v vi CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix List of Contributors xi Acknowledgements xiii Preface Clelia Falletti, Gabriele Sofi a and Victor Jacono xiv PART ONE THEATRE AS A SPACE OF RELATIONSHIPS: A NEUROCOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE Introduction: The Shared Space of Action Clelia Falletti 3 1 The ‘Mirror Mechanism’ and Motor Behaviour Maria Alessandra Umiltà 15 2 Body Presence and Extra-personal Space Perception Giorgia Committeri and Chiara Fini 23 3 The Circus Actor: Towards a Cognitive Approach Philippe Goudard 35 PART TWO THE SPECTATOR’S PERFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE AND ‘EMBODIED THEATROLOGY’ Introduction: Towards an Embodied Theatrology? Gabriele Sofi a 49 4 Body and Corporeity in the Theatre: From Semiotics to Neuroscience. A Small Multidisciplinary Glossary Marco De Marinis 61 vii viii CONTENTS 5 Audiences’ Experience of Proximity and Co- presence in Live Dance Performance Corinne Jola and Matthew Reason 75 6 Theatre and Science: Refl ections on Theatrical Effi cacy in Antonin Artaud L orraine Dumenil 93 PART THREE THE COMPLEXITY OF THEATRE AND HUMAN COGNITION Introduction: Complexity, Cognition, and the Actor’s Pedagogy Victor Jacono 103 7 A Rope Over an Abyss J ohn J. Schranz 117 8 The Actor’s Embodied Language: Preliminary Investigations of a Pilot Experiment Gabriele Sofi a, Silvia Spadacenta, Clelia Falletti, and Giovanni Mirabella 131 9 Perception and the Organization of Time in the Theatre Luciano Mariti 139 PART FOUR INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON APPLIED PERFORMANCE Introduction: Does Art Therapy Work as a Rehabilitative Tool? Giovanni Mirabella 157 10 Use of Theatrical Techniques and Elements as Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders Jenna Gabriel, Elisa Angevin, Tamara E. Rosen and Matthew D. Lerner 163 11 Theatre as a Valuable Tool for Parkinson’s Disease Rehabilitation Nicola Modugno, Imogen Kusch and Giovanni Mirabella 177 12 Theatre and Therapy: ‘Care’, ‘Cure’, or Illusion? Jean-Marie Pradier 187 Notes 199 Index 247 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figures 1.1 Original stimuli: digitized images of the artworks by Lucio Fontana. Control stimuli: digitized images of graphically modifi ed versions of the original artworks. 19 1.2 Original stimuli: digitized images of the artworks by Franz Kline. Control stimuli: digitized images of graphically modifi ed versions of the original artworks. 20 2.1 Exemplar stimuli for the experimental conditions used in the allocentric task of extrapersonal space categorization. Modifi ed from Chiara Fini, Marcel Brass, Giorgia Committeri, ‘Social Scaling of Extrapersonal Space: Target Objects Are Judged as Closer When the Reference Frame Is a Human Agent with Available Movement Potentialities’, Cognition 134 (2015). 27 2.2 Exemplar stimuli for the experimental conditions used in the egocentric task of extra-personal space categorization. Modifi ed from Chiara Fini, Marcello Costantini, Giorgia Committeri, ‘Sharing Space: The Presence of Other Bodies Extends the Space Judged as Near’, P losOne , 9(12) (2014). 32 5.1 Effect of presence experiences on enjoyment ratings (Corinne Jola, Matthew Reason). 85 5.2 Effects of proximity on sensorimotor simulation (Corinne Jola, Matthew Reason). 87 5.3 Effects of co-p resence on sensorimotor simulation (Corinne Jola, Matthew Reason). 88 8.1 The age of the subjects of the experiment (Gabriele Sofi a, Silvia Spadacenta, Giovanni Mirabella, Clelia Falletti). 134 ix
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