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Synthesizing the pedagogy of acting with new findings in Neuroscience and archetypal understandings of human ways of learning and seeing. This book contains practical exercises for directors, actors, and teachers to use combining these three elements.
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The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
(Refuting) Arguments for the End of Theatre: Possible Implications of Cognitive Neuroscience for Performance2007 •
Theatre and research models generally follow paradigms of science and culture, and a number of scholars have considered how scientific and technological shifts have affected our understanding of theatre and performance. For example, Philip Auslander addresses the impact of electronic media on our understanding of liveness and authenticity in Liveness, 1 and Jon McKenzie examines the impact of new technologies in a range of fields in Perform or Else. 2 Most pertinent to my project is Joseph Roach’s excellent and invaluable The Player’s Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting, 3 which traces the effect of changing scientific paradigms on how we have understood the actor’s process, taking us through mechanist, vitalist, biological, and psychological perspectives ranging from the behavioral to the psychoanalytic, each of which held currency in its own time, but which was superseded by the next wave of research. Interestingly, by the time Roach’s work was published, first in 1985 and t...
Original Practices Shakespeare calls for a specific mode of performance exemplifying a strong unity of thought, action, and speech. Sometimes called Living Thought, actors must realize this state within a typically short OP rehearsal process while maintaining tight, rapid pacing emblematic of the form. This thesis examines Living Thought as a state of psychophysical fluency and asks how a psychophysical approach to OP rehearsal practice can enable actors to manifest it. The research demonstrates how Living Thought can be contextualized and explicated through a psychophysical perspective, constructed through a consideration of existing psychophysical performance practices, especially those of Konstantin Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov, Bella Merlin, and Phillip Zarrilli, and the psychophysical work of specialists in vocal performance including Cicely Berry and Kristin Linklater. This thesis establishes the principal conventions of OP Shakespeare and asks how and to what extent an appro...
Review of Rhonda Blair and Amy Cooks, ed., Theatre, Performance, and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies and Clelia Falletti, Gabriele Sofia, and Victor Jacono, eds., Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience. Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues. Theatre Journal 68 (December, 2016): 687-89.
New Theatre Quarterly
Explanations and Implications of ‘Psychophysical’ Acting2016 •
The term ‘psychophysical’ in relation to acting and performer training is widely used by theatre scholars and practitioners. Konstantin Stanislavsky is considered to have been an innovator in developing an approach to Western acting focused on both psychology and physicality. The discourse encompasses questions of practice, of creativity and emotion, the philosophical problem of mind–body from Western and Eastern perspectives of spirituality. In this article, Rose Whyman attempts to uncover what Stanislavsky meant by his limited use of the term ‘psychophysical’ and suggests that much of the discourse remains prone to a dualist mind–body approach. Clarification of this is needed in order to further understanding of the practice of training performers. Rose Whyman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham. She researches the science of actor training and is the author of The Stanislavsky System of Acting (Cambridge, 2008) and Stan...
Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci
Mogući pravci izmjena i dopuna hrvatskoga prava društava2016 •
Management & Organizational History
The Republic of Salé (1627–1641/1666); an alternative pirate organization model?2017 •
2021 •
Hip International
The influence of implant design on periprosthetic bone remodelling of two types of uncemented HA-coated hip stems. A two-year follow-up study using DEXA2006 •
2020 •
Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications
10-Ethyl-3-nitrophenothiazine1998 •
International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
Electron-microscope observations on the tonsillar epithelium in children with recurrent tonsillitis1982 •