The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science investigates and illuminates the growing international interest in the intersections and interactions between theatre, drama, performance and the sciences.
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science investigates and illuminates the growing international interest in the intersections and interactions between theatre, drama, performance and the sciences.
These disciplines are explored through an extensive range of essays from artists, practitioners, researchers and scholars, many of whom are working in interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary or multidisciplinary contexts. With a largely contemporary focus underpinned by an introductory section that sets out a history of antecedent intersections, the volume offers a diverse range of perspectives on science, scientific methods, and scientific knowledge in dialogue with performance scholarship and practice. Our understanding of ‘practice’ is capacious, from different performance forms to science communication and interpretation, to scientific approaches to performance, to ways of generating and disseminating scientific knowledge. Within this vast scene, a number of key questions and themes emerge: How can scientific knowledge be interrogated by performance practices? How can performance explore the human implications of scientific development? How can scientific practices be understood through performance theories? How are scientists or scientific practices, and ideas represented in performance?
This is a key resource for scholars and upper-level students of performing arts, science communication, medical and health humanities, science and technology studies, and interdisciplinary arts/humanities/sciences projects.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Paul Johnson, Simon Parry and Adele Senior
PART I
Histories of Science and Performance
Chapter
1. Performing Science in Early Modern England: Experimental
Entertainment and its Audiences
Mark Thomas Young
Chapter
2. Dramatic representations of the astrologer on the verge of modern
science
Mário Montenegro
Chapter
3. Samuel Pepys Traumatic Autopsia
Kara Reilly
Chapter
4. Artists with differentiated bodies in performing arts
Felipe Henrique Monteiro Oliveira
Chapter
5. The brigands of medicine: charlatanry, sexuality and medical
demonstration in late nineteenth century France
Jonathan W. Marshall
Chapter
6. Physique Amusante: Optics, Mechanics, Anatomy and Anthropology at
the Fairground in Nineteenth-century Europe
Nele Wynants
Chapter
7. All Fall Down: Fainting, Dying, and Mad Scenes on the
Nineteenth-Century Stage
Elyse Singer
Chapter
8. The Velocity of the Stage: Physics Meets Metaphysics in Sigizmund
Krzhizhanovskys Theatrical Theory
Alisa Ballard Lin
Chapter
9. Heal as well as dance: Margaret Morris Movement and
physiotherapy as performance
Clare Button
PART II
Disciplined Performance
Chapter
10. Computer Science and Performance: A Reintroduction
Robert Ellis Walton
Chapter
11. ASMR performance and psychology of sensation in the online
space
Julie Rose Bower & Giulia Poerio
Chapter
12. Abnormal Psychology and The Case of Becky: Science and
Imagination in the Performance of Dual Personality
John M. Andrick
Chapter
13. Investigating Biological Dramaturgies: Using cancer biology as a
dramaturgical tool
Diane Stubbings
Chapter
14. The dementia science play: Balancing science with humanity in
dementia-themed performance
Morgan Batch
Chapter
15. O (Symptom): Performing in between doctor, patient and cadaver
Olivia Turner
Chapter
16. Displacing performance mastery with ecological tools
Anthony Gritten
Chapter
17. The Aesthetics of Mathematics in the Physical Theatre
Yael Via-Dorembus
Chapter
18. Parameters for Understanding Uncertainty: Methodologies for
Intellectual Loitering within Scientific Infrastructure & Communication
Rebecca Collins
PART III
Performance Cultures and Science
Chapter
19. Immersive Intelligent Aesthetics for Visualising Extreme Fires:
Exploring Terrestrial Agency
Susanne Thurow, Dennis Del Favero, Jason Sharples, Khalid Moinuddin, Charles
Green
Chapter
20. Charge interpreting scientific research through
Interdisciplinary devised practice
Sophy Smith
Chapter
21. From Carbon-Dating to Light Theory in the Dystopic Archeology of
Istanbul
Deniz Baar
Chapter
22. Whose Technology? A Sufi Love Note on Decolonizing our Historical
Dances with Science and Technology Studies
Assad Assad
Chapter
23. Blood Magic in Biotech a case study
WhiteFeather Hunter
Chapter
24. The Disquieting Body in VestandPage's Performance Art: Diagnose,
Cure, Heal, Perform
Andrea Pagnes
Chapter
25. Ecosomatic practice for living and dying on a damaged planet
Olive Bieringa
Chapter
26. Building Science Communication as a Space for Scientists: Science
Comedy in the United Kingdom
Edward Thomas Bankes
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27. Room Service as sf theatre: communicating science through sf
performance
Sanja Vodovnik
Chapter
28. No Space In Between: A Case Study of Theatrescience
Rebecca Gould and David Cottis
PART IV
Sciences of Performance
Chapter
29. Banishing homunculus: in-bodying imagination in acting processes
Micia de Wet
Chapter
30. Emotion Theory and Theatre Practice: From William James to
Konstantin Stanislavski
Aphrodite Evangelatou
Chapter
31. Theatre as Science: Performing Empathy in Beatrix Cenci
Graça P. Corrêa
Chapter
32. Centring the subjective when examining performance in the field
of Dance Medicine and Science
Gemma Harman
Chapter
33. Conversations on the tensions of dance and science in an emerging
research field
Frances Clarke, Naomi Lefebvre Sell, Matthew Wyon, Derrick Brown-Appenzeller
Chapter
34. Rehearsing the Art and Science of Healing: Simulation Performance
in Nursing Education
Alexander Munro
PART V
Science, Performance and Communication
Chapter
35. Audiences for science-theatre: valued but under-explored
Carla Almeida and Emma Weitkamp
Chapter
36. Performing Public Health
Meghan Moe Beitiks, Marina Heron Tsaplina, Aaron Colverson, Kaitlyn Wittig
Menguc, Jill Sonke, Edith Moore Hubert & Katrina Pineda
Chapter
37. Pharmakon: An Experimental Collaboration between Performance and
Pharmacy
Michael Valdez
Chapter
38. Dont Smile
Nigel Townsend
Chapter
39. Taking over Authorship The Power of Writing Processes for
another Science
Lydia Schulze Heuling & Laura Colucci-Gray
Chapter
40. Discussing problematic legacies of science through theatre:
racism, misogyny, and skull measuring in The Science of the Future
Daniel Gamito-Marques
Chapter
41. Wild Things: Using improvised comedy to communicate and explore
conservation science
Sofia Castelló y Tickell & Matthew Kemp
Chapter
42. A Small Show About Big Ideas: Third Angels 600 People
Simon Goodwin, Alex Kelly & Rachael Walton
Index
Paul Johnson is Dean of Academic Quality and Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Chester.
Simon Parry is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Arts Management at The University of Manchester.
Adele Senior is Reader in Theatre and Performance at Leeds Beckett University.
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