Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- From Elusive Space to The Generative Potential of The Corporeal -- Corporeality: Discreet Experience Taking Form -- Re-Constructing Material Space: Perception, Experience, and The Emergent -- Contextualization: Theatre as The Case of Study -- Theatre as epitome of the social -- Theatre and consciousness -- Theatre and the controversial status of physical space -- Spatial Form as Site of Emergence -- Method, Structure and Organization of The Book -- Part One Re-Thinking Corporeality: Space Between Theoretical Obscurity and Generative Potential -- Chapter One The 'Lived': from 'Body' to The Body with Space -- Space and Space-Body Relations in Terms of The Body -- 'Body' and 'Embodiment' -- The Body-Subject as Social Phenomenon -- The Expressive Body in Social Practice and Interaction -- Spatial Contexts of Identity and The Social -- 'Incorporation' -- The Body within The Systems of the Material World -- Resistance and Assimilation as Transformative Forces -- 'Space as Event' Versus 'Static' Space -- Immediate Experience and The Body -- 'The Prformative'- Generation of Space -- The 'Distracted' as Productive Mode -- The Explorative Modality of Sensation: The Body as a Perceptual System -- Corporeal Reverberations: The Body with Space -- Chapter Two. From 'Lved Space' and 'Experience' to The Materiality of Experience -- From Space to The Body-The Problematic of Built form 81 -- 'Lived Space' -- The Social Production of Space: Experience Versus Perception -- The 'Porous' and 'Relational' Space of Material Practice -- Fluid Ontology and Alternative Practices -- Productive Materiality -- Experience -- Establishing a Shared World -- Phenomenological Polarities: The Sensing Self Reaching Out -- The Process of The Correlation: Encounter, Reverberation, and The Emergent.

Movement -- Corporeal Contact-A Source of Emergence -- The 'Induced': 'Feeling' as Constructive Mental Process -- Built Physical Space: A Shared Experiential Framework -- Theoretical Foundations -- Conceptual Tools for an Analytical Approach -- Part Two Corporeal Constructions: Theatre as Context and Case of Inquiry -- Chapter Three. Contextualizing Corporeality: Theatre Space Between Mediation and Generation of Experience -- Theatre as Spatial Context of Coherence: Embedding the Theatrical, The Aesthetic, The Social and The Immediate -- Space and Its 'Theatrical' Problems: Site and Scene in Discourse and Practice -- Space 'In' Performance: The Theatrical Work -- Theatrical Functions of Space -- Theatre Experience-Mediated and Immediate -- Space 'For' Performance: The Theatre Monument -- Building for the Performing Arts -- Theatre as Spatial Type -- Architectural Means: Enhancing Theatre Experience -- Recovering Experiential Charge -- Ritual Practice and Sites of Affect -- Re-Tracing Affect Through Space -- The Theatre Mode of Spatial Organization: An Analytical Framework -- Conceptualising Theatre Space as an Experiential Field -- Corporeal Correlates: The Aesthetic as Ontological Interruption -- Chapter Four. From Space to Sense-To Sensibility -- Physical Space as Dynamic Locus of The Actual and The Possible -- Artefact: Origins in Social Practice -- Lived Space: a Constituent of Self and the Collective -- The Generative Potential of The Corporeal: Emerging Spatial Forms as Forms of Emergence -- Isolation -- Conceptual Implications -- Corporeal Constructions -- Isolation as A Form of Experience -- Exposure -- Conceptual Implications Versus Scopic Conventions -- Corporeal Constructions -- Exposure as a Form of Experience -- Collective Containment -- Conceptual Connotations -- Corporeal Constructions -- Collective Containment as a Form of Experience.

The Spatial Intricacies of Bodily Knowing and Becoming -- Chapter Five. Discussion -- Methodological Constructions: The Spatial Dimension as Analytical and Explanatory Tool -- Experiential Constructions of Self and The Ccollective as Aspects of the Authentically Theatrical -- The Modality of Discreet Experience Immediately Spatial: The Internal Structuring Mechanisms of The Corporeal -- Extracting The Spatial Logic of Experience: Performance as Encounter-Encounters at Performance -- The Aesthetic and The Ontological -- Beyond Theatre-Everyday Sites -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.