Embodied consciousness : performance technologies /

This volume of essays combines research from neuroscience, consciousness studies, performer training systems, modes of creating a staged narrative, Asian aesthetics and post-modern theories of performance in an examination of the relationship between consciousness and performance. Written by actors,...

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Other Authors: McCutcheon, Jade Rosina, Sellers-Young, Barbara
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Consciousness and the Brain: A Window to the Mind; Dahlia Zaidel
  • PART I: PEDAGOGY OF PERFORMANCE TRAINING
  • 2. The Neuroscience Of Performance Pedagogy; Elizabeth Carlin Metz
  • 3. Embodying Deep Practice: A Pedagogical Approach to Actor Training; Bonnie Eckard
  • 4. When Consciousness Fragments: A Personal Encounter with Stage Fright; Bella Merlin
  • PART II: EASTERN INFLUENCES ON WESTERN PERFORMANCE TRAINING TECHNOLOGIES
  • 5. Motion in Stillness, Stillness in Motion: Contemplative Practice in the Performing Arts; Barbara Sellers-Young
  • 6. Pause in Breath: Potential for Altered States of Consciousness in Traditional Indian Performance; Devika Wasson
  • 7. Embodied Consciousness: Warm Up and Cool Down; Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe
  • 8. Altered States: Radiating Consciousness in Michael Chekhov's Technique; Andrew White
  • PART III: POLITICS, PERFORMANCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
  • 9. Irish Biopolitics and National (un) Consciousness. Mannix Flynn's Public Performance of Inclusion; Gabriella Calchi-Novati.
  • 10. The Performance Mirror: Self, Consciousness and Verbatim Theatre; Jade Rosina McCutcheon
  • 11. Oprah Feelin': Technologies of Reception in the Commercial Flash Mob; Mary Elizabeth Anderson
  • PART IV: THEORIZING THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF POST-MODERN PERFORMANCE
  • 12. Reexamining Heidegger to Uncover Creativity in the Iteratively Bound Performer; Doug Rosson
  • 13. Aesthetic Encounters of a Collective Consciousness; Eve Katsouraki.
  • 14. Metatheatre and Consciousness; David Mason
  • Bibliography
  • Index.