Conscious theatre practice : : yoga, meditation and performance / / Lou Prendergast.

• Superior document: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ; 58
• VerfasserIn: Prendergast, Lou,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill Rodopi,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ; 58.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)

In 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.

Table of Contents

Half 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.

5 '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.