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

by Pil Hansen and Bettina Bläsing

Book Overview

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 strongly 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350118842
• ISBN13: 9781350118843
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"