Overview
Since its inaugural issue in April, 2000, the journal Consciousness, Literature and the Arts has regularly published essays on the intersection of theatre and consciousness. Often these essays have seen theatre as a spiritual practice that for both the performer and her audience can bring about experiences that help heal the world, a shift in consciousness. This practice, though spiritual, is not ethereal but is rooted in doing, in actions, in breathing. That is, theatre is seen as an art form understood as part of a whole, as taking place in total Consciousness as well as expressing consciousness(es), making both breathing a source of meaning and shamanic journeying part of the creative process that brings into ""being"" imaginative resources for the actor that undermines traditional understandings of character/self/ego.All the pieces collected here, then, reveal a concern with consciousness and the theatre, the ways that performance can be a spiritual practice, a means a reaching higher levels of consciousness, as well as the ways the theatre may have healing effects on audiences by engaging them in wider and deeper levels of imagination, the levels where dualities disappear.
Full Product Details
Author: Per Brask ,
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.20cm
Weight: 0.440kg
ISBN: 9781443816342
ISBN 10: 1443816345
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 23 November 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Per Brask has taught at the University of Winnipeg since1982. Prior to this, he was dramaturg for Playwrights Workshop (Montreal) and Artistic Director of the Saidye Bronfman Centre Theatre. During his time in Montreal, 1978-1982, he also taught playwriting at Concordia University and the National Theatre School of Canada. Throughout his career he has been a dramaturg on numerous plays and productions. He has published poetry, short stories, translations, interviews and essaysDaniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe is Professor of Drama in the Lincoln School of Humanities and Performing Arts, University of Lincoln, UK. His research focuses on the relationship between theatre and consciousness. He serves as editor of the journal (online) and the book series (Rodopi) Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, and has convened the bi-annual Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts conferences since 2005.
