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Kudiyattam Theatre and the Actor’s Consciousness

Author : Arya Madhavan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042027991
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Kudiyattam Theatre and the Actor’s Consciousness written by Arya Madhavan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the training methods, performance and aesthetics of Kudiyattam, the oldest existing theatre from in the world. It brings together for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the psycho-physical techniques employed by the actors in Kerala of this temple theatre form. The book offers an in-depth analysis of pakarnnattam, a unique acting technique that helps the actor to perform multiple characters in a single dramatic situation. This multiple transformational acting technique is highly relevant to enhance the actor’s abilities such as imagination, spontaneity and improvisation. The book employs a range of theoretical models developed from performance studies, gender theories, consciousness studies, Indian aesthetic and philosophical theories to investigate the actor’s body in training and performance. Most significantly, for the first time, the book offers some extra-ordinary insights into the links between the actor’s breathing and consciousness. It covers a range of topics: Hatha Yoga breathing techniques, eye training, hand gestures, movement techniques, voice training and rasa acting.

Kudiyattam Theatre and the Actor's Consciousness

Author : Arya Madhavan
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042027983
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Kudiyattam Theatre and the Actor's Consciousness written by Arya Madhavan and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2010 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the training methods, performance and aesthetics of Kudiyattam, the oldest existing theatre from in the world. It brings together for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the psycho-physical techniques employed by the actors in Kerala of this temple theatre form. The book offers an in-depth analysis of pakarnnattam, a unique acting technique that helps the actor to perform multiple characters in a single dramatic situation. This multiple transformational acting technique is highly relevant to enhance the actor¿s abilities such as imagination, spontaneity and improvisation. The book employs a range of theoretical models developed from performance studies, gender theories, consciousness studies, Indian aesthetic and philosophical theories to investigate the actor¿s body in training and performance. Most significantly, for the first time, the book offers some extra-ordinary insights into the links between the actor¿s breathing and consciousness. It covers a range of topics: Hatha Yoga breathing techniques, eye training, hand gestures, movement techniques, voice training and rasa acting. Dr Arya Madhavan is a Lecturer in Drama at Lincoln School of Humanities and Performing Arts, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom

Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2011

Author : Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443834912
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2011 written by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this volume were initially presented at the Fourth International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, held at the University of Lincoln, May 28–30, 2011. The conference was organised on the basis of the success of its predecessors in 2005, 2007 and 2009, and on the basis of the success of the Rodopi book series Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, which has to date seen thirty volumes in print, with another twelve in press or in the process of being written. The 2011 conference and the book series highlight the continuing growth of interest within the interdisciplinary field of consciousness studies, and in the distinct disciplines of theatre studies, literary studies, film studies, fine arts and music in the relationship between the object of these disciplines and human consciousness. Fifty-five delegates from twenty-eight countries across the world attended the May 2011 conference in Lincoln; their range of disciplines and approaches is reflected well in this book.

Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre

Author : Siyuan Liu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317278860
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre written by Siyuan Liu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre is an advanced level reference guide which surveys the rich and diverse traditions of classical and contemporary performing arts in Asia, showcasing significant scholarship in recent years. An international team of over 50 contributors provide authoritative overviews on a variety of topics across Asia, including dance, music, puppetry, make-up and costume, architecture, colonialism, modernity, gender, musicals, and intercultural Shakespeare. This volume is divided into four sections covering: Representative Theatrical Traditions in Asia. Cross-Regional Aspects of Classical and Folk Theatres. Modern and Contemporary Theatres in Asian Countries. Modernity, Gender Performance, Intercultural and Musical Theatre in Asia. Offering a cutting edge overview of Asian theatre and performance, the Handbook is an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and students studying this ever-evolving field.

A Day in a Working Life [3 volumes]

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610694031
Total Pages : 1424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Day in a Working Life [3 volumes] written by Gary Westfahl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for high school and college students studying history through the everyday lives of men and women, this book offers intriguing information about the jobs that people have held, from ancient times to the 21st century. This unique book provides detailed studies of more than 300 occupations as they were practiced in 21 historical time periods, ranging from prehistory to the present day. Each profession is examined in a compelling essay that is specifically written to inform readers about career choices in different times and cultures, and is accompanied by a bibliography of additional sources of information, sidebars that relate historical issues to present-day concerns, as well as related historical documents. Readers of this work will learn what each profession entailed or entails on a daily basis, how one gained entry to the vocation, training methods, and typical compensation levels for the job. The book provides sufficient specific detail to convey a comprehensive understanding of the experiences, benefits, and downsides of a given profession. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering honest testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.

Women in Asian Performance

Author : Arya Madhavan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317422244
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Women in Asian Performance written by Arya Madhavan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Asian Performance offers a vital re-assessment of women's contributions to Asian performance traditions, focusing for the first time on their specific historical, cultural and performative contexts. Arya Madhavan brings together leading scholars from across the globe to make an exciting intervention into current debates around femininity and female representation on stage. This collection looks afresh at the often centuries-old aesthetic theories and acting conventions that have informed ideas of gender in Asian performance. It is divided into three parts: erasure – the history of the presence and absence of female bodies on Asian stages; intervention – the politics of female intervention into patriarchal performance genres; reconstruction – the strategies and methods adopted by women in redefining their performance practice. Establishing a radical, culturally specific approach to addressing female performance-making, Women in Asian Performance is a must-read for scholars and students across Asian Studies and Performance Studies.

Body and Performance

Author : Sandra Reeve
Publisher : Triarchy Press
ISBN 13 : 190947018X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Body and Performance written by Sandra Reeve and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12 contemporary approaches to the human body that are being used by performers or in the context of performance training.

Kūṭiyāṭṭam Theatre

Author : K. G. Paulose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788126414031
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Kūṭiyāṭṭam Theatre written by K. G. Paulose and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VCD takes a glance at various aspects of this ancient art form. Presents a brief history of Sanskrit theatre with examples of performances, acting abilities, musical instruments and the role of women in Sanskrit drama.

Space, Time and Ways of Seeing

Author : Mundoli Narayanan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000425266
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Space, Time and Ways of Seeing written by Mundoli Narayanan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the constitutive role played by space in the performance of Kutiyattam. The only surviving form of Sanskrit theatre, Kutiyattam is distinctive in terms of its performance conventions and its unique culture of extensive elaboration and interpretation. Drawing upon the concepts of phenomenology on the processes of perception, particularly on the works of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, it analyses the role of space in the communicative structures of performance of Kutiyattam and its contribution to the production of meaning in theatre, especially in the context of contemporary theatre. The book explores the theatrical event as a phenomenon that comes into existence through a triangular relationship among the ‘ways of being’ of the performers, the ‘ways of seeing’ of the audience, and the space which brings them together. Based on this formulation, Kutiyattam is approached as a ‘theatre of elaboration,’ made possible by the ‘intimate,’ ‘proximal’ ways of seeing of the audience, in the particular theatrical space of the kūttampalaṃs, the temple theatres, where Kutiyattam has customarily been performed for more than five centuries. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, theatre and performance studies, cultural anthropology, phenomenology and South Asian studies.

Observing Theatre

Author : Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401210292
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Observing Theatre written by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe and co-authors take the exploration of the subjective dimension of theatre, its spiritual context, its relation to consciousness and natural law, further than ever before, thanks to the context provided by the thinking of German geobiologist Hans Binder. We present relevant aspects of Binder’s approach as precisely as possible, then take Binder’s approach for granted to tease out the implications of that approach to the issues of theatre, including nostalgia, intercultural theatre, theatre criticism, dealing with demanding roles, the canon, theatre and philosophy, digital performance, practice as research, and applied theatre. Overall, the book proposes an overarching emphasis on the importance of living in the present and the concomitant need to abandon obsolete but still powerful patterns of the past. In this context, theatre, according to Binder, has a global responsibility for the new world in which humans are liberated from the scourge of the past. Theatre has the power and thus the responsibility to be path-breaking for a new “fiction”, to show to people, in a playful and creative manner, the direction in which the new consciousness can move. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe is Professor of Drama at the Lincoln School of Performing Arts, University of Lincoln. He has numerous publications on the topic of ‘Theatre and Consciousness’ to his credit, and is founding editor of the peer-reviewed web-journal Consciousness, Literature and the Arts and the book series of the same title with Rodopi.

Integral Drama

Author : William S. Haney
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023899
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Integral Drama written by William S. Haney and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integral Drama critically explores modern drama in the context of Indian aesthetics described in the Natyashastra and the vast, new interdisciplinary field of consciousness studies. It also focuses on how Indian theatre aesthetics has influenced modern drama theories and practice, and the extent to which this has promoted the development of higher consciousness in actors and audience. According to Indian aesthetics, rasa or aesthetic rapture is refers to bliss innate in the Self that manifests even in the absence of external sources of happiness. Overall, this book explores the relation between modern theatre and higher states of mind and demonstrates that one of the key purposes of theatre is to help the spectator experience the pure consciousness event described in consciousness studies by theorists such as Anna Bonshek, Ken Wilber, Robert K. C. Forman, Jonathan Shear, Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Ralph Yarrow and others. Integral Drama will appeal not only to drama theorists but also to teachers and students of acting, as well as an educated general audience interested in understanding the aesthetic experience of theatre. Integral Drama, moreover, can be used as a textbook for acting and drama theory classes and would also appeal to university and public libraries. The book serves as a bridge between the ideas and experiences long understood through Indian philosophy and the many questions raised by modern theatre studies.

Theatre and Consciousness

Author : Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Consciousness written by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses a range of questions relevant to understanding the phenomenon of theatre against a consciousness studies background.

Consciousness and the Actor

Author : Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783631301432
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Consciousness and the Actor written by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses major Western approaches to the issue of the actor's emotional involvement (by Stanislavsky, Brecht, Artaud, Grotowski, Schechner, Barba and Brook) as well as the Indian Natyashastra.

Embodied Consciousness

Author : J. McCutcheon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137320052
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Embodied Consciousness written by J. McCutcheon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays combines research from neuroscience, conscious studies, methods of training performers, modes of creating a staged narrative, Asian aesthetics, and post-modern theories of performance in an examination of the relationship between consciousness and performance.

Acting from the Ultimate Consciousness

Author : Eric Morris
Publisher : Perigee Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Acting from the Ultimate Consciousness written by Eric Morris and published by Perigee Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with Mr. Morris' contention that "ninety-five percent of our talent comes from the unconscious, " this book addresses that hidden reservoir of feelings and experiences. Through a study of the unconscious, the actor is led toward "the state at which the actor crosses the line between consciousness and the unconscious to reach and feed from this bottomless well of creativity."

The Five Continents of Theatre

Author : Eugenio Barba
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004392939
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Five Continents of Theatre written by Eugenio Barba and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Five Continents of Theatre undertakes the exploration of the material culture of the actor, which involves the actors’ pragmatic relations and technical functionality, their behaviour, the norms and conventions that interact with those of the audience and the society in which actors and spectators equally take part.

Clowns, Fools and Picaros

Author : David Robb
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023406
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Clowns, Fools and Picaros written by David Robb and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By its very nature the clown, as represented in art, is an interdisciplinary phenomenon. In whichever artform it appears - fiction, drama, film, photography or fine art - it carries the symbolic association of its usage in popular culture, be it ritual festivities, street theatre or circus. The clown, like its extended family of fools, jesters, picaros and tricksters, has a variety of functions all focussed around its status and image of being "other." Frequently a marginalized figure, it provides the foil for the shortcomings of dominant discourse or the absurdities of human behaviour. Clowns, Fools and Picaros represents the latest research on the clown, bringing together for the first time studies from four continents: Europe, America, Africa and Asia. It attempts to ascertain commonalities, overlaps and differences between artistic expressions of the "clownesque" from these various continents and genres, and above all, to examine the role of the clown in our cultures today. This volume is of interest for scholars of political and comic drama, film and visual art as well as scholars of comparative literature and anthropology.