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Embodied Consciousness Also available by Jade Rosina McCutcheon AWAKENING THE PERFORMING BODY Also available by Barbara Sellers-Young BELLYDANCE: Orientalism, Transnationalism and Harem Fantasy (co-editor) BREATHING, MOVEMENT, EXPLORATION TEACHING PERSONALITY WITH GRACEFULNESS Embodied Consciousness Performance Technologies Edited by Jade Rosina McCutcheon and Barbara Sellers-Young Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Jade Rosina McCutcheon and Barbara Sellers-Young 2013 Remaining chapters © Contributors 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-32004-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-45761-8 ISBN 978-1-137-32005-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137320056 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by MPS Limited, Chennai, India. In memory of Della Davidson, our colleague and companion in the pursuit for attention to consciousness in the creative act of performance. Courage like Mary Shelley dare to look, at the dark with vision like Galileo dare to dream past illusion like Dali and smoke the dream. You sew and knit the form with such care so we have a chance to see just how thin the veil is. – J. R. McCutcheon, 26 March 2012 This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Jade Rosina McCutcheon and Barbara Sellers-Young 1 Consciousness and the Brain: A Window to the Mind 12 D. W. Zaidel Part I Pedagogy of Performance Training 2 The Neuroscience of Performance Pedagogy 31 Elizabeth Carlin-Metz 3 Embodying Deep Practice: A Pedagogical Approach to Actor Training 46 Bonnie J. Eckard 4 When Consciousness Fragments: A Personal Encounter with Stage Fright in Performance 57 Bella Merlin Part II Eastern Influences on Western Performance Training Technologies 5 Motion in Stillness – Stillness in Motion: Contemplative Practice in the Performing Arts 75 Barbara Sellers-Young 6 Pause in Breath: Potential for Altered States of Consciousness in Traditional Indian Performance 91 Devika Wasson 7 Embodied Consciousness: Warm-Up and Cool-Down 102 Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe 8 Altered States: Radiating Consciousness in Michael Chekhov’s Technique 112 R. Andrew White vii viii Contents Part III Reception and Reflection in Contemporary Performance 9 Irish Biopolitics and National (Un)Consciousness: Gerard Mannix Flynn’s Public Performances of Inclusion 129 Gabriella Calchi-Novati 10 The Performance Mirror: Self, Consciousness and Verbatim Theatre 145 Jade Rosina McCutcheon 11 Oprah Feelin’: Technologies of Reception in the Commercial Flash Mob 159 Mary Elizabeth Anderson Part IV Theorizing the Consciousness of Postmodern Performance 12 Re-examining Heidegger to Uncover Creativity in the Iteratively Bound Performer 179 Doug Rosson 13 Aesthetic Encounters of a Collective Consciousness 195 Eve Katsouraki 14 Metatheatre and Consciousness 209 David V. Mason Index 219 Acknowledgements The editors would like to thank the authors for their tireless and will- ing engagement with the work of this book. The authors hail from five countries and their topics bring an expanded perspective of conscious- ness and performance from these different cultures. We are most grate- ful for their wonderful contributions. We would also like to thank Paula Kennedy at Palgrave Macmillan for her support and belief in this work, and sincerely thank Monica Kendall for her warmth, support, eagle eye and heartfelt dedication in the editing of this volume. ix
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