Embodied consciousness : performance technologies / edited by Jade Rosina McCutcheon and Barbara Sellers-Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCutcheon, Jade Rosina.

Sellers-Young, Barbara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Psychological aspects.

Performing arts.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

xiii, 229 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampsihire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

"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, directors, dancers, historians and theorists, the essays participate in the paradigm shift in the humanities and the arts from the textual to the performative. It is precisely that experience that is at the centre of the shift in the scientific study of consciousness. This collection of essays brings together a representation of this paradigm shift and the increasing body of research emerging at the intersections of consciousness and performance from theories of performance training to explorations on the role of performance in the construction of cultural aesthetics and community consciousness"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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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.

ISBN:

9781137320049

1137320044

OCLC:

834978650

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