Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments Notes on
• Contributors
• INTRODUCTION
• 1. Consciousness and the Brain: A Window to the Mind; Dahlia 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 Eckard
• 4. When Consciousness Fragments: A Personal Encounter with Stage Fright; 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; Andrew White
• PART III : POLITICS, PERFORMANCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
• 9. Irish Biopolitics and National (un) Consciousness. Mannix Flynn's Public Performance 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 Mason
• Bibliography
• Index