SPECIAL LECTURE
The Unseen in Play: Why We Should Care About How Cognition Shapes Asian Intercultural Training, Performance, and the Ethics of Collaboration
by Assoc Prof Maiya Murphy (Singapore)
28 NOV, SAT | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
⦿ Esplanade Annexe Studio
"Do first, think later" is one of the most common, enduring rules in actor training, and for good reason: overthinking can flatten a performance. But what if thinking and doing were never really opposites to begin with?
In this lecture demonstration, deviser and researcher Maiya Murphy, whose work sits at the confluence of performer training, movement, devising, and cognitive approaches to theatre, draws on new developments in cognitive science, particularly the emerging field of 4E cognition, to challenge how we've long understood the relationship between mind and body in performance.
Recent research acknowledges the body is an important part of how the mind processes; how doing, is itself, a kind of thinking; and crucially, how we never think alone: cognition happens between people, not just inside one head.
Presenting material devised with ITI students, Murphy offers practitioners, researchers, and educators new language for something many already sense intuitively in the studio, and explores how these insights might sharpen not just how we talk about training, but how we practice it.
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