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

This international collection explores the cognition of memory through the performing arts, examining artistic strategies that target cognitive processes. It provides an overview of subjects such as collective and environmental distributed memory, autobiographical memory triggers, and the relationship between memory, awareness, and creative spontaneity.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 27 June 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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 deeply 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.

Weight: 370g
Dimension: 140 x 215 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350118843