Performance and Mindfulness
August 7, 2024
Laura Haughey, Deborah Middleton
This paper explores some of the ways in which a mindfulness-based performer training can enable performers to cultivate embodied awareness. Recent science is used to develop a discussion which builds from body awareness into the cultivation of states of 'embodiment'. In particular, Khoury et al's 'Embodied Mindfulness' schema (2023) is used to develop a model of embodied mindfulness training...
Performance and Mindfulness
August 21, 2023
Heather Huggins, Tania Alice
The article is the result of a joint reflection by two artist-researchers on artistic-pedagogical practices of compassion and poetics of care in academia. Through two socially engaged art projects carried out in two different universities - at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and at Queensborough Community College at the City University of New York (CUNY-QCC) - the...
Performance and Mindfulness
April 21, 2023
Maria Luiza Tavares Cavalcanti
The object of my doctoral research is to discover the possible reverberations that mindfulness practices can have in the actor's work. In this article, I report on my path on implementing minsfulness practices with actors in the classroom, addressing an experience with a group of drama students from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State (UNIRIO).
Performance and Mindfulness
March 31, 2023
Claudia Mele
The text addresses the notions of creativity, intuition and visualisation in the work of the performing artist. These faculties can be stimulated through contemplative practices, such as meditation, for the development of a powerful, present and creative body. The author reports her lived experience in which the meditative practice evoked events that go beyond the scenic aspects, providing new...
Performance and Mindfulness
March 14, 2023
Rebecca Sabine Ramsey
This is a performance score developed by a violinist/mindfulness meditation teacher. It outlines a guided group meditation performed with live, improvisational music. Field recordings of natural environments are included, simulating mindful listening as a way to raise environmental awareness.
Performance and Mindfulness
July 26, 2022
Candice Salyers
This reflection considers how the deep attention cultivated in the Sufi contemplative practice of remembrance, or دكر (dhikr), might support my capacity to serve the world through my actions as a performer. By reflecting on the contemplative dance film in existence or in absence created during the Seminario Artes de Cena e Practicas Contemplativas in 2021, this text explores ways in which...
Performance and Mindfulness
November 27, 2017
Deborah Middleton
3 citations
In this paper, I report on the University of Huddersfield's Mindfulness and Performance Project (MAP)2, outlining the field of practice that the project was designed to profile, and exploring some of the implications of what we might call 'mindfulness-based performance'. Framing this work within the context of the growing literature on clinical and therapeutic 'mindfulness-based interventions'...