Conscious Theatre Practice
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-46791-0 (ISBN)
In Conscious Theatre Practice: Yoga, Meditation, and Performance, Lou Prendergast charts a theatre research project in which the notion of Self-realisation and related contemplative practices, including Bikram Yoga and Vipassana meditation, are applied to performance. Coining the term ‘Conscious Theatre Practice’, Prendergast presents the scripts of three publicly presented theatrical performances, examined under the ‘three C’s’ research model: Conscious Craft (writing, directing, performance; Conscious Casting; Conscious Collaborations.
The findings of this autobiographical project fed into a working manifesto for socially engaged theatre company, Black Star Projects. Along the way, the research engages with methodological frameworks that include practice-as-research, autoethnography, phenomenology and psychophysical processes, as well immersive yoga and meditation practice; while race, class and gender inequalities underpin the themes of the productions.
Lou Prendergast, Ph.D. (2019), University of the West of Scotland, is a theatre-maker, social entrepreneur, founder of community interest company, the BodyMind Studio, and is a Bikram and Hatha yoga teacher, Y12SR Leader and TCTSY-F. She is a former journalist.
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
PART 1
Research
1 Know Thyself
Conscious Theatre Practice as Self-Realisation Process
1 Know Thyself
2 Social Self
3 Feminist Self
4 Sick Self
5 Outline of Chapters
2 Bodymind
Yoga, Meditation and Theatre Practice
1 Bodymind
2 Philosophical Contexts of Yoga and Meditation
3 Conscious Theatre Practitioners
4 Konstantin Stanislavski
5 Nicolas Nunez
6 Peter Brook
7 Jerzy Grotowski
3 Research Approaches
From Embodied Knowledge to Self-Reflexivity
1 Practice as Research
2 Autoethnography
3 Immersive Contemplative Practice (ICP)
4 ICP as Fieldwork
5 Journal Entry Critique
4 Immersive Contemplative Practice
Vipassana Meditation Courses and Bikram Yoga Teacher Training
1 Vipassana
2 Bikram Yoga Teacher Training
5 Three C's Research Model
Conscious Craft, Conscious Casting, Conscious Collaborations
1 The Three C's Research Model
1.1 Conscious Craft
1.2 Conscious Casting
1.3 Conscious Collaborations
2 Higher States of Theatre Consciousness
PART 2
Practice
6 Blood Lines (2014)
United in Diversity: 'But Who Could Resist You Dad?'
1 Conscious Casting: Blood Lines
2 Narrative
3 Staging
4 Ensemble
5 'Fierce and Self-Searching Reflection'
7 Tommy's Song (2015)
Imagining Masculinities: 'Kickin' an Stampin!'
1 Conscious Craft: Tommy's Song
2 Writing
3 Casting
4 Directing
5 Performance
6 'Childhood Poverty and Family Dysfunction'
8 AWKWARD : A Life in Twenty-Six Postures (2016)
Love Changes Everything: 'Compassion, Not Passion'
1 Conscious Collaborations: Awkward
2 Ensemble
3 Staging
4 Performance
5 'A Space for Reflection; A Space for Sharing'
9 Findings, Lessons and Learnings
1 Research Recapitulations
2 Outcomes for Theatre Practice
3 Black Star Projects Manifesto
4 ctp Antagonisms and Limitations
5 Implications
6 Applications
7 Back to My Future
Afterword
Blood Lines
Tommy's Song
AWKWARD: A Life in Twenty-Six Postures
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ; 58 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 571 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-46791-2 / 9004467912 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-46791-0 / 9789004467910 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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