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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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.