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Restoration of breath

consciousness and performance
Author: Search for this author Nair, Sreenath (author)
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: 2007
Publisher: Amsterdam, Brill
Series: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Series; 9
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Breath is the flow of air between life and death. Breathing is an involuntary action that functions as the basis of all human activities, intellectual, artistic, emotional and physical. Breathing is the first autonomous individual action that brings life into being and the end of breathing is the definitive sign of disappearance. Starting from the question how breathing affects the body, levels of consciousness, perception and meaning, this book, for the first time, investigates through a variety of philosophical, critical and practical models, directly and indirectly related to breath, aiming to establish breath as a category in the production and reception of meaning within the context of theatre. It also explores the epistemological, psycho-physical and consciousness-related implications of breath. Aristotle dedicated a volume to breath exploring and enquiring in to its presocratic roots. For Heidegger, breath is "the temporal extension" of Being . Artaud's theatricality is not representational but rather rooted in the actor's breathing. Jacques Derrida and Luce Irigaray investigate the phenomenon of breath in order to explain the nature of human consciousness. Breath as a philosophical concept and as a system of practice is central to Indian thoughts, performance, medicine, martial arts and spirituality. As the book argues, individual consciousness is a temporal experience and breath is the material presence of time in the body. Cessation of breath, on the contrary, creates pause in this flow of the endless identification of signifiers. When breath stops time stops. When time stops there is a 'gap' in the chain of the presence of signifiers and this 'gap' is a different perceptual modality, which is neutral in Zero velocity. Restoration of Breath is a practical approach to this psychophysical experience of consciousness in which time exists

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Author: Search for this author Nair, Sreenath (author)
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: 2007
Publisher: Amsterdam, Brill
Works included: Intro -- Restoration of Breath: Consciousness and Performance -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Location of Breath -- 1.1 Theatricality and Performativity, 1.2 Performance Categories of Performativity -- 1.2.1 Definition -- 1.2.2 Enacted Performativity -- 1.2.3 Reception and Performativity -- 1.3. Critical Categories of Performativity -- 1.3.1 Foucault and Event -- 1.3.2 Deleuze and Repetition, 1.3.3 Derrida and Différance -- 1.3.4 Artaud and Breath -- 1.4 Being and/or Breathing: Heidegger and Irigaray -- Summary -- Chapter Two In Search of Breath -- 2.1 Aristotle and Breath -- 2.1.1 Breath is a Body -- 2.1.2 Breath and Soul --, 2.1.3 Breath and Emotion -- 2.2 Tao and Breath -- 2.2.1 Ch'i Meridians -- 2.2.2 Ch'i Kung and Breath -- 2.3 Breath and the Sanskrit Tradition -- 2.3.1 Space and Time in S?mkhya -- 2.3.2 Breath and S?mkhya -- 2.3.3 Breath and the Upanishads --, 2.4 Breath in Yoga and Ayurveda -- 2.4.1 The Sangitaratnakara and the Genesis of the Human Embodiment -- A. The Metaphysical Viewpoint -- B. The Physiological Viewpoint -- C. The Psychophysical Viewpoint --, 2.4.2 The Siva Svarodaya Shastra and the Yogic Technique of Breathing -- A. Nostrils: Structure and Modes -- B. Nostrils and the Solar System - -- C. Techniques to Check Nostril Modes -- D. Techniques to Change Nostril Modes -, E. Practicing Svara-Udaya -- 2.5 Breath and the Siddha Tradition -- 2.5.1 Texts and Authorship -- A. The Body in the Marmasastra -- B. Marma and the Body -- 2.5.2 Agastiya's Cave --, 2.5.3 Siddha Vidya -- Summary -- Chapter Three Breath: Training and Performance -- 3.1 Breath in Eastern Actor Training -- 3.1.1 Breath and the Natyasastra -- 3.1.2 Breath and Rasa -- 3.1.3 Svara-vayu: A Lost Tradition of Breath, 3.1.4 Noh in Contemporary Actor Training -- 3.2 Breath in Western Actor Training -- 3.2.1 Jacques Copeau
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ISBN: 978-94-012-0517-7
Description: 1 online resource (204 pages)
Series: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Series; 9
Tags: Atmung; Acting / Study and teaching; Breathing exercises
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Language: Englisch
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Media group: E-Book