ABSTRACT
A scenography of the senses consists of the conception of a design and the elements and principles used to create the material environment for performance, and also an audience's response to that material performance environment. It is a sensual engagement experienced through a body's response to and within the theatrical event. This chapter explores how the senses, particularly those other than sight and sound, fit into the theatrical event and audience experience. The audience's engagement with the designed experience begins with a theory of embodied cognition describing that an onlooker's apprehension is situated; a perceiver uses the tools of observation deployed in everyday existence as a frame to understand the communitarian accessibility of the performative experience. Theories of embodied cognition describe the ways that people scan the environment for situational clues about how and to what they ought to respond.
