Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices

Matthew Reason is a senior lecturer in theatre and the head of MA Studies in Creative Practice at York St. John University in England. He is the author of, most recently, The Young Audience: Exploring and Enhancing Children's Experience of Theatre.Dee Reynolds is professor of French at the University of Manchester and the author of, among other books, Rhythmic Subjects: Uses of Energy in the Dances of Mary Wigman, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham.

• Foreword – Amelia JonesIntroduction – Dee Reynolds and Matthew ReasonPart I: Mirroring Movements: Empathy and Social InteractionsIntroduction – Dee ReynoldsChapter 1: Knowing Me, Knowing You: Autism, Kinesthetic Empathy and Applied Performance – Nicola ShaughnessyChapter 2: Kinesthetic Empathy and Movement Metaphor in Dance Movement Psychotherapy – Bonnie MeekumsChapter 3: Affective Responses to Everyday Actions – Amy E. Hayes and Steven P. TipperPart II: Kinesthetic Engagement: Embodied Responses and IntersubjectivityIntroduction – Dee ReynoldsChapter 4: Cinematic Empathy: Spectator Involvement in the Film Experience – Adriano D’AloiaChapter 5: Musical Group Interaction, Intersubjectivity and Merged Subjectivity – Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Ian Cross and Pamela BurnardChapter 6: Kinesthetic Empathy and the Dance’s Body: From Emotion to Affect – Dee ReynoldsPart III: Kinesthetic Impact: Performance and Embodied EngagementIntroduction – Matthew ReasonChapter 7: Kinesthetic Empathy in Charlie Chaplin’s Silent Films – Guillemette BolensChapter 8: Effort and Empathy: Engaging with Film Performance – Lucy Fife DonaldsonChapter 9: Breaking the Distance: Empathy and Ethical Awareness in Performance – Rose Parekh-GaihedePart IV: Artistic Enquiries: Kinesthetic Empathy and Practice-Based ResearchIntroduction – Matthew ReasonChapter 10: Re-Thinking Stillness: Empathetic Experiences of Stillness in Performance and Sculpture – Victoria GrayChapter 11: Empathy and Exchange: Audience Experiences of Scenography – Joslin McKinneyChapter 12: Photography and the Representation of Kinesthetic Empathy – Matthew Reason, with photographs by Chris NashPart V: Technological Practices: Kinesthetic Empathy in Virtual and Interactive EnvironmentsIntroduction – Dee ReynoldsChapter 13: T he Poetics of Motion Capture and Visualisation Techniques: The Differences between Watching Real and Virtual Dancing Bodies – Sarah WhatleyChapter 14: Interactive Multimedia Performance and the Audience’s Experience of Kinesthetic Empathy – Brian KnothChapter 15: Kinesthetic Empathy Interaction: Exploring the Concept of Psychomotor Abilities and Kinesthetic Empathy in Designing Interactive Sports Equipment – Maiken Hillerup FogtmannConclusion – Dee Reynolds and Matthew Reason

'I have found this a really inspirational book, with wide implications for my own work in Applied Drama.' – David Grant, Lecturer in Drama & Director of Education at Queen's University 'A highly stimulating prompt to consider forms of 'non-discursive' knowledge' – Simon Parry for New Theatre Quarterly 'The book offers a progressive awareness of how kinesthetic empathy can evolve varied disciplines' – Theatre Research International, Ananda Breed