Embodied Consciousness

1. Introduction
Jade Rosina McCutcheon, Barbara Sellers-Young

2. Consciousness and the Brain: A Window to the Mind
D. W. Zaidel

Part I. Pedagogy of Performance Training

3. The Neuroscience of Performance Pedagogy
Elizabeth Carlin-Metz

4. Embodying Deep Practice: A Pedagogical Approach to Actor Training
Bonnie J. Eckard

5. When Consciousness Fragments: A Personal Encounter with Stage Fright in Performance
Bella Merlin

Part II. Eastern Influences on Western Performance Training Technologies

6. Motion in Stillness — Stillness in Motion: Contemplative Practice in the Performing Arts
Barbara Sellers-Young

7. Pause in Breath: Potential for Altered States of Consciousness in Traditional Indian Performance
Devika Wasson

8. Embodied Consciousness: Warm-Up and Cool-Down
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

9. Altered States: Radiating Consciousness in Michael Chekhov’s Technique
R. Andrew White

Part III. Reception and Reflection in Contemporary Performance

10. Irish Biopolitics and National (Un)Consciousness: Gerard Mannix Flynn’s Public Performances of Inclusion
Gabriella Calchi-Novati

11. The Performance Mirror: Self, Consciousness and Verbatim Theatre
Jade Rosina McCutcheon

12. Oprah Feelin’: Technologies of Reception in the Commercial Flash Mob
Mary Elizabeth Anderson

Part IV. Theorizing the Consciousness of Postmodern Performance

13. Re-examining Heidegger to Uncover Creativity in the Iteratively Bound Performer
Doug Rosson

14. Aesthetic Encounters of a Collective Consciousness
Eve Katsouraki

15. Metatheatre and Consciousness
David V. Mason

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Dance, Performing Arts, Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies