Creativity and the Performing Artist: Behind the Mask

This book synthesizes and integrates research in the field of creativity and the performing arts. This is a field that has received limited research investigation and yet our culture is powerfully invested in and influenced by the performing arts. The book will help explain the creative process, flow and flow enhancement, emotional regulation strategies, career demands including injuries, burn out, and stress, as well as developmentally appropriate training recommendations to augment creativity and enhance performance. Discusses domain specificity within the performing artsEncompasses dance, theatre, music, and comedy performance artReviews the biology behind performance from thinking to movementIdentifies how an artist develops over time from childhood through adult trainingSummarizes the effect of personality, mood, and psychopathology on performanceExplores career concerns of performing artists from injury to burn out INDICE: Section 1: Creativity Theory and the Performing Arts 1. Integrative models of creativity 2. Domain specific creativity within the performing arts Acting, Musical Theatre, Dance, Singing, Musicians, Comedians 3. Giftedness 4. Experiences of creativity 5. Fantasy, fantasy proneness and the educated imagination Section 2: Biological Manifestations of Creativity in Performing Artists 6. Neuroscience; cognitive processing 7. Physiological responses and creativity 8. Flow and the nine flow dimensions Section 3: Development of the Performing Artist 9. Early development 10. Play and theory of mind 11. Attachment and childhood adversity 12. Personality and motivation 13. Training the performing artist Section 4: Emotion: Regulation and Resilience 14. Emotional regulation and dysregulation 15. Effect of mood on creativity 16. Disorganized attachment, trauma and loss experiences 17. Psychopathology 18. Physiological responses and psychopathology Section 5: Professional Reality of a Performing Artist 19. Careers; socio-economic challenges and benefits 20. Injuries, costs and rehabilitation 21. Health concerns 22. Burn out and boundary blurring Section 6: Conclusion

• ISBN: 978-0-12-804051-5
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 498
• Fecha Publicación: 13/02/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés