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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.
List of contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Paul Johnson, Simon Parry and Adele Senior PART IHistories of Science and Performance Chapter 1. Performing Science in Early Modern England: Experimental Entertainment and its Audiences
Mark Thomas YoungChapter 2. Dramatic representations of the astrologer on the verge of modern science
Mário MontenegroChapter 3. Samuel Pepys' Traumatic Autopsia
Kara ReillyChapter 4. Artists with differentiated bodies in performing arts
Felipe Henrique Monteiro OliveiraChapter 5. The brigands of medicine: charlatanry, sexuality and medical demonstration in late nineteenth century France
Jonathan W. MarshallChapter 6. Physique Amusante: Optics, Mechanics, Anatomy and Anthropology at the Fairground in Nineteenth-century Europe
Nele WynantsChapter 7. All Fall Down: Fainting, Dying, and Mad Scenes on the Nineteenth-Century Stage
Elyse SingerChapter 8. "The Velocity of the Stage: Physics Meets Metaphysics in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Theatrical Theory"
Alisa Ballard LinChapter 9. 'Heal as well as dance': Margaret Morris Movement and physiotherapy as performance
Clare ButtonPART IIDisciplined PerformanceChapter 10. Computer Science and Performance: A Reintroduction
Robert Ellis WaltonChapter 11. ASMR - performance and psychology of sensation in the online space
Julie Rose Bower & Giulia PoerioChapter 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 StubbingsChapter 14. The dementia science play: Balancing science with humanity in dementia-themed performance
Morgan BatchChapter 15. O (Symptom): Performing in between doctor, patient and cadaver
Olivia TurnerChapter 16. Displacing performance mastery with ecological tools
Anthony GrittenChapter 17. The Aesthetics of Mathematics in the Physical Theatre
Yael Via-DorembusChapter 18. Parameters for Understanding Uncertainty: Methodologies for Intellectual Loitering within Scientific Infrastructure & Communication
Rebecca CollinsPART III Performance Cultures and ScienceChapter 19. Applying an immersive intelligent aesthetic to wildfire visualisation: Exploring terrestrial agency
Susanne Thurow, Dennis Del Favero, Jason Sharples, Khalid Moinuddin, Charles GreenChapter 20. Charge - interpreting scientific research through Interdisciplinary devised practice
Sophy SmithChapter 21. From Carbon-Dating to
Light Theory in the Dystopic Archeology of Istanbul
Deniz BäarChapter 22. Whose Technology? A Sufi Love Note on Decolonizing our Historical Dances with Science and Technology Studies
Assad AssadChapter 23. Blood Magic in Biotech - a case study
WhiteFeather HunterChapter 24. The Disquieting Body in VestandPage's Performance Art:
Diagnose, Cure, Heal, PerformAndrea PagnesChapter 25. Ecosomatic practice for living and dying on a damaged planet
Olive BieringaChapter 26. Building Science Communication as a Space for Scientists: Science Comedy in the United Kingdom
Edward Thomas BankesChapter 27. Room Service as sf theatre: communicating science through sf performance
Sanja VodovnikChapter 28. No Space In Between: A Case Study of Theatrescience
Rebecca Gould and David CottisPART IVSciences of PerformanceChapter 29. Banishing homunculus: in-bodying imagination in acting processes
Micia de WetChapter 30. Emotion Theory and Theatre Practice: From William James to Konstantin Stanislavski
Aphrodite EvangelatouChapter 31. Theatre as Science: Performing Empathy in
Beatrix Cenci Graça P. CorrêaChapter 32. Centring the 'subjective' when examining performance in the field of Dance Medicine and Science
Gemma HarmanChapter 33. Conversations on the tensions of dance and science in an emerging research field
Frances Clarke, Naomi Lefebvre Sell, Matthew Wyon, Derrick Brown-AppenzellerChapter 34. Rehearsing the Art and Science of Healing: Simulation Performance in Nursing Education
Alexander Munro PART VScience, Performance and CommunicationChapter 35. Audiences for science-theatre: valued but under-explored
Carla Almeida and Emma WeitkampChapter 36. Performing Public Health
Meghan Moe Beitiks, Marina Heron Tsaplina, Aaron Colverson, Kaitlyn Wittig Menguc, Jill Sonke, Edith Moore Hubert & Katrina PinedaChapter 37. Pharmakon: An Experimental Collaboration between Performance and Pharmacy
Michael ValdezChapter 38. Don't Smile
Nigel TownsendChapter 39. Taking over Authorship - The Power of Writing Processes for another Science
Lydia Schulze Heuling & Laura Colucci-GrayChapter 40. Discussing problematic legacies of science through theatre: racism, misogyny, and skull measuring in
The Science of the FutureDaniel Gamito-MarquesChapter 41. Wild Things: Using improvised comedy to communicate and explore conservation science
Sofia Castelló y Tickell & Matthew KempChapter 42. 'A Small Show About Big Ideas: Third Angel's 600 People'
Simon Goodwin, Alex Kelly & Rachael WaltonIndex
About the author
Paul Johnson is Deputy Provost and Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Chester.
Simon Parry is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Arts Management at University of Manchester.
Adele Senior is Reader in Theatre and Performance at Leeds Beckett University.
