Integrative Performance serves a crucial need of 21st-century performers by providing a transdisciplinary approach to training. Its radical new take on performance practice is designed for a climate that increasingly requires fully rounded artists. The book critiques and interrogates key current practices and offers a proven alternative to the idea that rigorous and effective training must separate the disciplines into discrete categories of acting, singing, and dance.Experience Br...

Performing Interdisciplinarity proposes new ways of engaging with performance as it crosses, collides with, integrates and/or disturbs other disciplinary concerns. From Activism and Political Philosophy to Cognitive Science and Forensics, each chapter explores the relationships between performance and another discipline.Including cross-chapter discussions which address the intersections between fields, Performing Interdisciplinarity trulyexamines the making of mea...

In this collection of essays, the four branches of radical cognitive science—embodied, embedded, enactive and ecological—will dialogue with performance, with particular focus on post-cognitivist approaches to understanding the embodied mind-in-society; de-emphasising the computational and representational metaphors; and embracing new conceptualisations grounded on the dynamic interactions of "brain, body and world". In our collection, radical cognitive science reaches out to areas of schol...

This book critically examines how knowledge is produced, experienced, and captured across disciplinary boundaries. It offers a practice-based framework for transdisciplinary research that integrates embodied, performative, empirical, and conceptual methodologies. The book engages with two key traditions—the Nicolescuian and Zürich approaches—before drawing on philosophy, cognitive science, performance, and systems thinking to develop a dynamic practice of knowledging: a way of doi...