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This book is about the centrality of movement, movement perception,
and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship. Drawing
upon phenomenological accounts of movement experience and the
insights of cognitive science, neuroscience, acting theory, dance
theory, philosophy of mind, and linguistics, it considers how we
inhabit the movements of others and how these movements inhabit us.
Individual chapters explore the dynamics of movement and animation,
action and intentionality, kinesthetic resonance (or mirroring),
language, speech, and empathy. In one of its most important
contributions to the study of theatre, performance, and
spectatorship, this book foregrounds otherness, divergence, and
disability in its account of movement perception. The discussions
of this and other issues are accompanied by detailed analysis of
theatre, puppetry, and dance performances.
Theatre and Medicine offers a tour of this interdisciplinary
terrain. Organized into four distinct topics, each represents
crucial ways of understanding the theatre-medicine relationship.
From discussions on the somatic underpinnings of the body that
medicine and theatre take as their subject through to the
historical association of theatre and contagion, and the pervasive
role of doctors and the practitioners of alternative medicine in
Western theatre and role of patients on and off stage. Together,
this brief study considers the institutional contexts of theatre's
medical performances in the early twenty-first century.
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