Conscious theatre practice : : yoga, meditation and performance / / Lou Prendergast.

• Superior document: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ; 58
• VerfasserIn: Prendergast, Lou,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill Rodopi,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ; 58.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)

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 'Conscio...

Table of Contents

• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• List of Figures and Tables
• Part 1 Research
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 2 Bodymind: Yoga, Meditation and Theatre Practice
• 1 Bodymind
• 2 Philosophical Contexts of Yoga and Meditation
• 3 Conscious Theatre Practitioners
• 4 Konstantin Stanislavski
• 5 Nicolás Núñez
• 6 Peter Brook
• 7 Jerzy Grotowski
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 4 Immersive Contemplative Practice: Vipassana Meditation Courses and Bikram Yoga Teacher Training
• 1 Vipassana
• 2 Bikram Yoga Teacher Training
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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'
• Chapter 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'
• Chapter 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'
• Chapter 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
• Scene One
• Scene Two
• Scene Three
• Scene Four
• Awkward: A Life in Twenty-Six Postures
• Characters
• Cast
• Scene One
• Scene Two
• interval
• Scene Three
• Scene Four
• Bibliography
• Additional Web Resources
• Index of Names.