In this collection of essays, the four branches of radical cognitive science will dialogue with performance, with particular focus on post-cognitivist approaches to understanding the embodied mind-in-society. The essays originally published as a special issue in Connection Science.

Preface to the special issue embodied cognition, acting and performance Experience Bryon, J. Mark Bishop, Deirdre McLaughlin and Jess Kaufman 1. Transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary exchanges between embodied cognition and performance practice working across disciplines in a climate of divisive knowledge cultures Experience Bryon 2. Autopoiesis, creativity and dance J. Mark Bishop and Mohammad M. al-Rifaie 3. Embodiment a cross-disciplinary provocation Deirdre McLoughlin 4. Stanislavsky's system as an enactive guide to embodied cognition? Ysabel Clare 5. Reverse engineering the human: artificial intelligence and acting theory Donna Soto-Morettini 6. An earned presence: studying the effect of multi-task improvisation systems on cognitive and learning capacity Pil Hansen and Robert J. Oxoby 7. The embodied performance pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq Rick Kemp 8. Theory, practice and performance Shaun Gallagher