The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science investigates and illuminates the growing international interest in the intersections and interactions between theatre, drama, performance and the sciences.
These disciplines are explored through an extensive range of essays from artists, practitioners, researchers and scholars, many of whom are working in interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary or multidisciplinary contexts. With a largely contemporary focus underpinned by an introductory section that sets out a history of antecedent intersections, the volume offers a diverse range of perspectives on science, scientific methods, and scientific knowledge in dialogue with performance scholarship and practice. Our understanding of 'practice' is capacious, from different performance forms to science communication and interpretation, to scientific approaches to performance, to ways of generating and disseminating scientific knowledge. Within this vast scene, a number of key questions and themes emerge: How can scientific knowledge be interrogated by performance practices? How can performance explore the human implications of scientific development? How can scientific practices be understood through performance theories? How are scientists or scientific practices, and ideas represented in performance?
This is a key resource for scholars and upper-level students of performing arts, science communication, medical and health humanities, science and technology studies, and interdisciplinary arts/humanities/sciences projects.
| ISBN: | 9781032138992 |
| Publication date: | 19th November 2025 |
| Author: | Paul Johnson, Simon Parry, Adele Senior |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 576 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Companions |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies Forensic science Dietetics and nutrition Epidemiology and Medical statistics Immunology Neurosciences Biophysics Pharmaceutical chemistry and technology Performance art Materials science Biochemistry Molecular biology Biochemical engineering |
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science investigates and illuminates the growing international interest in the intersections and interactions between theatre, drama, performance and the sciences.
These disciplines are explored through an extensive range of essays from artists, practitioners, researchers and scholars, many of whom are working in interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary or multidisciplinary contexts. With a largely contemporary focus underpinned by an introductory section that sets out a history of antecedent intersections, the volume offers a diverse range of perspectives on science, scientific methods, and scientific knowledge in dialogue with performance scholarship and practice. Our understanding of 'practice' is capacious, from different performance forms to science communication and interpretation, to scientific approaches to performance, to ways of generating and disseminating scientific knowledge. Within this vast scene, a number of key questions and themes emerge: How can scientific knowledge be interrogated by performance practices? How can performance explore the human implications of scientific development? How can scientific practices be understood through performance theories? How are scientists or scientific practices, and ideas represented in performance?
This is a key resource for scholars and upper-level students of performing arts, science communication, medical and health humanities, science and technology studies, and interdisciplinary arts/humanities/sciences projects.
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science features in the following genres: Theatre studies, Forensic science, Dietetics and nutrition, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, Immunology, Neurosciences, Biophysics, Pharmaceutical chemistry and technology, Performance art, Materials science, Biochemistry, Molecular biology, Biochemical engineering
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science is available in Hardback
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science was written by Paul Johnson, Simon Parry, Adele Senior and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science has 576 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Companions series
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