Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McCutcheon, J[Herausgeber]
• Sellers-Young, B[Herausgeber]

Titel

Embodied Consciousness : Performance Technologies [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2013

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
• 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.
• English