Description: This interdisciplinary study explores devised performance and practice research at the intersection of the cognitive sciences and arts.
Brief description: Maiya Murphy is Associate Professor in the Theatre Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. She is the author of Enacting Lecoq: Movement in Theatre, Cognition, and Life (2019), along with essays in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Training, New Theatre Quarterly, Theatre Survey, The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater, and Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance.
Review Quotes: "Through its focus on cognitive approaches to devising this book offers an original, interdisciplinary and contemporary contribution to theatre and performance studies with a wealth of practical and theoretical strategies for readers to apply to their own work." --Nicola Shaughnessy, University of Kent, UK