Full Description
This volume of essays combines research from neuroscience, conscious studies, methods of training performers, modes of creating a staged narrative, Asian aesthetics, and post-modern theories of performance in an examination of the relationship between consciousness and performance.
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'sPublic 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
