Embodied Consciousness Performance Technologies
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 con
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Also available by Jade Rosina McCutcheon AWAKENING THE PERFORMING BODY Also available by Barbara Sellers-Young BELLYDANCE: Orientalism, Transnationalism and Harem Fantasy (co-editor) BREATHING, MOVEMENT, EXPLORATION TEACHING PERSONALITY WITH GRACEFULNESS
Embodied Consciousness Performance Technologies Edited by
Jade Rosina McCutcheon and
Barbara Sellers-Young
Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Jade Rosina McCutcheon and Barbara Sellers-Young 2013 Remaining chapters © Contributors 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-32004-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-45761-8 DOI 10.1057/9781137320056
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In memory of Della Davidson, our colleague and companion in the pursuit for attention to consciousness in the creative act of performance. Courage like Mary Shelley dare to look, at the dark with vision like Galileo dare to dream past illusion like Dali and smoke the dream. You sew and knit the form with such care so we have a chance to see just how thin the veil is. – J. R. McCutcheon, 26 March 2012
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Contents Acknowledgements
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Notes on Contributors
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Introduction Jade Rosina McCutcheon and Barbara Sellers-Young
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Consciousness and the Brain: A Window to the Mind D. W. Zaidel
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Part I Pedagogy of Perf
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