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Conscious Theatre Practice
Yoga, Meditation and Performance
Series: - Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume: 58
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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 âConscious Theatre Practiceâ, Prendergast presents the scripts of three publicly presented theatrical performances, examined under the âthree Câsâ 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.
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.
Lou Prendergast, Ph.D. (2019), University of the West of Scotland, is a theatre-maker, social entrepreneur, founder of community interest company, the BodyMind Studio, and is a Bikram and Hatha yoga teacher, Y12SR Leader and TCTSY-F. She is a former journalist.
Those interested in contemporary theatre studies, performance, embodiment, spirituality, self-realisation and yoga and meditation practitioners; students with an interest in race, class and feminism and academic research methodologies: practice-as-research, authoethnography.