Research Catalog

Title

Consciousness, performing arts and literature : trajectories, 2014-2018 / edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe.

Publication

• Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Daniel, 1958-

Description

xii, 411 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

Against the background of personal, institutional and cultural trajectories, this book considers dance, opera, theatre and practice as research from a consciousness studies perspective. Highlights include a conversation with Barbara Sellers-Young on the nature of dance; an assessment of the work of International Opera Theater; a new perspective on liveness and livecasts; a reassessment, with Anita S. Hammer, of the concept of a universal language of the theatre; a discussion of two productions of new plays; the development of a new concept of theatre of the heart; a comparison of Western and Thai positions on the concept of beauty; and an examination of the role of conflict for theatre. The final chapter of the book is taken up by the author's first novel, which launches the new genre of spiritual romance. -- Publisher description.

Subjects

• Arts > Psychological aspects
• Consciousness in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-403) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Part one: dance and conciousness -- Professorial reflections: informal discussions and reflections / Barbara Sellers-Young and Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe -- Spirituality in Aurelia Baumgartner's Tanzphilosophie -- Dancing horses and reflecting humans -- Part two: opera and conciousness -- Werktreue and Regieoper -- Holistic experience of opera and the International Opera Theater (IOT) -- Part three: theatre and conciousness -- Liveness: Phelan, Auslander and after -- Performance as philosophy: the universal language of the theatre revisited / Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe and Anita S. Hammer -- In transit: Wajdi Mouawad's Scorched in Bremen, Germany as theatre of anticipation / Yana Meerzon and Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe -- Conciousness studies and evolutionary biology in Stoppard's The Hard Problem / Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe and Gregory Tague -- Science in Lucy Prebble's The Effect -- Ethical considerations of casting children in plays with "adult themes" -- Towards a theatre of the heart -- Intercultural differences and universality of creating and percieving beauty through / in performance / Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe and Tanatchaporn Kittikong -- Part four: practice as research -- Theatre without conflict: practice as research -- The view across the bay: a novel -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Call Number

*MGRZ 18-6481

ISBN

• 1527513602
• 9781527513600

OCLC

1047550128

Title

Consciousness, performing arts and literature : trajectories, 2014-2018 / edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe.

Publisher

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-403) and index.

Added Author

Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Daniel, 1958- editor.

Research Call Number

*MGRZ 18-6481