Engaging Audiences: A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre

By B. Mcconachie. 2008

195 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b1f03b9b84611b8c6a2ae569aba506e37c1f8059

Citations in the corpus

• Kinesthesia, Empathy, and Related Pleasures: An Inquiry into Audience Experiences of Watching Dance (2010, unknown): “…feelings For Bruce McConachie writing on theater audiences from the perspective of cognitive psychology, empathy means imagining "stepping into an actor/character's shoes," whereas "sympathy involves projecting her or his own beliefs and feelings onto the stage figure" (McConachie 2008 99).”