Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Consciousness and the Brain: A Window to the Mind; D.W. 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 J. Eckard -- 4. When Consciousness Fragments: A Personal Encounter with Stage Fright in performance; 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; R. Andrew White -- PART III: Reception and Reflection in Contemporary Performance -- 9. Irish Biopolitics and National (un) Consciousness: Gerard Mannix Flynn's Public Performances 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 V. Mason -- Index.
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.
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