Embodied Consciousness: Performance Technologies

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Consciousness and the Brain: A Window to the Mind....Pages 12-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
The Neuroscience of Performance Pedagogy....Pages 31-45
Embodying Deep Practice: A Pedagogical Approach to Actor Training....Pages 46-56
When Consciousness Fragments: A Personal Encounter with Stage Fright in Performance....Pages 57-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Motion in Stillness — Stillness in Motion: Contemplative Practice in the Performing Arts....Pages 75-90
Pause in Breath: Potential for Altered States of Consciousness in Traditional Indian Performance....Pages 91-101
Embodied Consciousness: Warm-Up and Cool-Down....Pages 102-111
Altered States: Radiating Consciousness in Michael Chekhov’s Technique....Pages 112-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Irish Biopolitics and National (Un)Consciousness: Gerard Mannix Flynn’s Public Performances of Inclusion....Pages 129-144
The Performance Mirror: Self, Consciousness and Verbatim Theatre....Pages 145-158
Oprah Feelin’: Technologies of Reception in the Commercial Flash Mob....Pages 159-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Re-examining Heidegger to Uncover Creativity in the Iteratively Bound Performer....Pages 179-194
Aesthetic Encounters of a Collective Consciousness....Pages 195-208
Metatheatre and Consciousness....Pages 209-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-229