Abstract
This article takes key areas of cognitive science - including enactivism, 4E cognition, cognitive ecologies, and cognitive linguistics – to explore the connections between these relatively new scientific fields, and the last work of Stanislavsky. Stanislavsky’s work in his final phase in the 1930s, his “last words”, if you will, is known as Active Analysis, which requires actors to discover the underlying structures of action before memorizing dialogue. Actors "study" the play by moving between improvising scenes on their feet, returning to the text, moving back and forth until their improvisation captures it and the text can be memorized. Both the cognitive sciences and Active Analysis provide tools for engaging the dynamic nature of bodies, action, selves, and language.
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