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.

Bridges the gap between a phenomenologically-grounded perspective on movement and cognitive theatre studies Adds a useful perspective to recent scholarship on disability, theatre, and performance Provides in-depth analyses of innovative twentieth-first productions and performances, most of which have not received sustained critical attention

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Stanton B. Garner, Jr. is Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Theatre at the University of Tennessee, USA. He is the author of The Absent Voice: Narrative Comprehension in the Theater, Bodied Spaces: Phenomenology and Performance in Contemporary Drama, Trevor Griffiths: Politics, Drama, History, and numerous articles on drama, theatre, and performance.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Movement and Animation.-Movement, Difference, Ability.- Movement, Attention, and Intentionality.-Kinesthetic Resonance.-Language, Speech, Movement.- Empathy and Otherness.