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MINDFUL EMBODIMENT PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE - Perforum Series 2022
The Department of Theatre, School of Film | Music | Theatre, University College Cork
Presents Perforum Lunchtime Research Series: 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th May 2022
(Live and Online)
THURSDAY 5TH MAY, 13.10 – 14.10
Deborah Middleton and Laura Haughey
(Research Mentor; Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of Huddersfield, UK)
MINDFULNESS FOR PERFORMERS: EMBODIED AND RELATIONAL PRACTICES
Online Presentation
Q & A Chair and in-person audience Venue:
CONN A, Connolly Complex, Western Road, Cork
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In recent years, there has been growing popular and scientific interest in mindfulness, and in the ways mindfulness-based interventions can be applied in a wide range of contexts. Some of the latest research opens up aspects of mindfulness training that are particularly pertinent to performers: the role of the body, and the notion of relational, or inter-personal, mindfulness. In this presentation, we will consider some of the ways in which this research can inform and extend performance training, and will outline Dr Laura Haughey's current research into embodied mindfulness training for d/Deaf and hearing actors.
12th May, 13.10 – 14.10
Gaitkrash Theatre Company presents a live performance of:
CABINET OF CURIOSITY
Q & A Chair and in-person audience Venue:
UCC Granary Theatre, Dyke Parade, T12 VF64, Cork
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Cabinets of curiosity, a phenomenon of the Renaissance, traditionally presented the rare, the exceptional and the marvellous, encompassing both ‘God’s creation and man’s art’. With this 21st Century cabinet the curious is also revealed: the objects encountered here, however, are continually mutating compositions: performed by hands in the mini-theatres of the cabinet, curious objects – animate and inanimate, organic and inorganic – wrestle, dance and pause in conversation with unique sounds from the sound artist. The ‘cabinet-makers’ - Bernadette Cronin, Regina Crowley and Mick O'Shea - are guided by organisational principles and themes that are currently present for them, however, no stories or narratives are offered – the audience is free to create their own...
19th May, 13.10 – 14.10
Maria Kapsali (University of Leeds)
KINESONIC EMBODIMENT
Online Presentation.
Q & A Chair and in-person audience Venue:
UCC Granary Theatre, Dyke Parade, T12 VF64, Cork
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This presentation will explore the embodied experience that emerges in engagements with movement sonification. Movement sonification is an emergent practice that involves the production of sound through the body's movement. In the last decade, a variety of products and prototypes of movement sonification have been developed for either medical or entertainment and artistic purposes. The presentation will draw on my own work with movement sonification prototypes in a variety of contexts; philosophy of technology; as well as my previous work on performer training and tool use (Kapsali 2021). It will consider the way the synchronous co-production of sound and movement can give rise to novel experiences of embodiment that include a reconfiguration of the senses as well as an extension of the body's felt sense. The development of the echome prototype and its application in a dance making pilot project can be viewed here:
echome: developing a movement sonification technology
Hunting Honey Bee: The use of echome in dance training and performance
May 26th , 13.10 – 14.10
Franc Chamberlain (Professor Emeritus in Drama, Theatre & Performance, University of Huddersfield)
MICHAEL CHEKHOV, POSSESSION, AND MINDFUL EMBODIMENT
Online Presentation.
Chair and in person audience Venue:
UCC Granary Theatre, Dyke Parade, T12 VF64, Cork
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Michael Chekhov directed an adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel The Possessed (aka Demons) which opened at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway in October 1939, a few weeks after the outbreak of the Second World War. Chekhov had decided in early 1939 that The Possessed would be his first production in the USA because he intended it to address what he considered to be some of the psychological and spiritual roots of the violent conflicts of the first part of the twentieth century. This presentation will engage with the idea of possession in Chekhov's work and consider how he sought to address it and how this might have relevance to our contemporary situation.
For more on this story contact:
Dr Bernadette Cronin
Department of Theatre
School of Film | Music | Theatre
University College Cork