LEADER 05139nam 2200565 450 001 9910795547203321 005 20230117234933.0 010 $a90-04-46792-0 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004467927 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6827619 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6827619 035 $a(CKB)20151516900041 035 $z(OCoLC)1251764795 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004467927 035 $a(OCoLC)1262691639 035 $a(EXLCZ)9920151516900041 100 $a20230117d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aConscious theatre practice $eyoga, meditation and performance /$fLou Prendergast 210 1$aLeiden, Netherlands ;$aBoston, Massachusetts :$cBrill Rodopi,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (266 pages) 225 1 $aConsciousness, Literature and the Arts ;$v58 311 08$aPrint version: Prendergast, Lou Conscious Theatre Practice Boston : BRILL,c2021 9789004467910 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aHalf 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. 327 $a5 '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. 330 $aIn Conscious Theatre Practice: Yoga, Meditation, and Performance , Lou Prendergast charts a theatre research project in which the notion of Self-realisation and related contemplative practices, including Bikram Yoga and Vipassana meditation, are applied to performance. Coining the term 'Conscious Theatre Practice', Prendergast presents the scripts of three publicly presented theatrical performances, examined under the 'three C's' research model: Conscious Craft (writing, directing, performance; Conscious Casting; Conscious Collaborations. The findings of this autobiographical project fed into a working manifesto for socially engaged theatre company, Black Star Projects. Along the way, the research engages with methodological frameworks that include practice-as-research, autoethnography, phenomenology and psychophysical processes, as well immersive yoga and meditation practice; while race, class and gender inequalities underpin the themes of the productions. 410 0$aConsciousness, Literature and the Arts ;$v58. 606 $aConsciousness 606 $aMeditation 606 $aYoga 606 $aTheater$xPsychological aspects 615 0$aConsciousness. 615 0$aMeditation. 615 0$aYoga. 615 0$aTheater$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a792.01/9 700 $aPrendergast$b Lou$01502846 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795547203321 996 $aConscious theatre practice$93730863 997 $aUNINA