YorkSpace has migrated to a new version of its software. Access our Help Resources to learn how to use the refreshed site. Contact diginit@yorku.ca if you have any questions about the migration.
 

Body-Mind Balancing: Exploring Deep Embodiment in Oh What A Lovely War!

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorGreyeyes, Michael J.
dc.creatorElchuk, Tanya Marie
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-28T15:27:48Z
dc.date.available2015-08-28T15:27:48Z
dc.date.copyright2015-02-24
dc.date.issued2015-08-28
dc.date.updated2015-08-28T15:27:48Z
dc.degree.disciplineTheatre
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractActing methodologies have long been divided into two simplistic streams: “outside-in” and “inside-out.” These reductionist models fail to account for the range and synergistic nature of the elements integral to an actor’s work. Exploring these elements I discovered a personal tendency toward favouring an intellect removed from its source in breath, body, and imagination, and disengaged from sensation and emotion. Undertaking an exploration of deep embodiment through the practices of Syntonics©, Linklater voice work, Middendorf Breathexperience, and Batdorf Technique, and applied in Theatre@York’s production Oh What a Lovely War! I discovered a rich new source of information arising not from intellect, but from an intelligent, unified, physical being, or body-mind. This experience has revealed a new understanding of how to approach acting, in which every element becomes a potential entry point into a holistically integrated, reciprocal system, and in which visceral, sensate awareness births true presence and performance.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/30031
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectTheater
dc.subjectPerforming arts
dc.subject.keywordsEmbodiment
dc.subject.keywordsPsychophysical acting
dc.subject.keywordsSensory awareness
dc.subject.keywordsPhenomenology
dc.subject.keywordsMask
dc.subject.keywordsActor methodology
dc.subject.keywordsLinklater
dc.subject.keywordsMiddendorf
dc.subject.keywordsNeuroscience
dc.subject.keywordsCognitive science
dc.subject.keywordsPlay
dc.subject.keywordsOh What a Lovely War
dc.subject.keywordsImagination
dc.subject.keywordsBody-mind
dc.subject.keywordsInside-out
dc.subject.keywordsOutside-in
dc.subject.keywordsBreath
dc.subject.keywordsVoice training
dc.subject.keywordsActor training
dc.subject.keywordsBeginner's mind
dc.subject.keywordsNon-doing
dc.subject.keywordsStanislavsky
dc.subject.keywordsGrotowski
dc.subject.keywordsSyntonics
dc.subject.keywordsEmotion
dc.subject.keywordsVia negativa
dc.subject.keywordsPresence
dc.subject.keywordsBeing
dc.subject.keywordsGrok
dc.subject.keywordsGroking
dc.titleBody-Mind Balancing: Exploring Deep Embodiment in Oh What A Lovely War!
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Elchuk_Tanya_M_2015_Masters.pdf
Size:
32.47 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.83 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
YorkU_ETDlicense.txt
Size:
3.38 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download

Collections

Theatre and Performance Studies

All items in the YorkSpace institutional repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved except where explicitly noted.