Please join us for the first Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance research seminar of the year on:
Wednesday 7th October, 5.30pm – 7pm in Jarman 2
Re-Presenting CKP: selected papers from the 2015 Theatre and Performance Research Association annual conference.
Three members of the Centre will present short papers on their current research.
Roanna Mitchell
‘Body Anxiety in Drama Schools: what actor training can learn from cognitive science’
This paper discusses how findings within cognitive science and cognitive linguistics may facilitate a deeper understanding of the way in which student actors perceive and manage their bodies. Drawing on a series of case studies in UK drama schools, the paper examines current working metaphors of the body, and aims to highlight the potential for cognitive science to inform the development of new models, metaphors and potential working strategies for those who facilitate the actor’s relationship with their body in training and industry.
Hannah Newman
‘Coding the Creative: the scientific evaluation of drama’
This paper focuses on the integration of the sciences and arts in a research project looking at the diagnosis of autism using drama. The creative project is being evaluated using scientific methods, ensuring that the integrity of both ‘cultures’ remains intact. The process will be explored and the challenges of integrating the two areas will be discussed.
Robbie Wilson
‘Towards a Ludic Ecology: a new direction for social performance’
My PaR explores a popular, participatory, peripatetic performance methodology (4P for short) which respond to Phil Smith’s call to cement performance as an everyday occurrence. The models I derive from 4P instigate and facilitate ludic interactions between people and their mundane yet multifaceted environments (i.e. a ludic ecology). Just play along.
Drinks and light refreshments to follow. All welcome to attend.