Acting Mindfully, is a form of embodiment pedagogy that investigates the ways in which actors can explore their craft through a lens that connects them closer to their mind, body, and voice. The document draws content from a wide variety of theatrical movement and vocal practitioners in combination with mindfulness techniques including yoga, meditation, and energy work. Embodiment pedagogy allows the acting student to approach and perform scenes and monologues with truth and authenticity; while allowing them the ability to tell their own stories. In order to explore this work, a course, Acting and Mindfulness, was introduced at Virginia Commonwealth University as an experimental way to begin to connect students to their artistic work in a mindful way. This document includes research, as well as a mindful acting curriculum, that make connections to embodiment pedagogy.

Cette etude developpe un concept original en theorie dramatique: "l'illusion de la vie hors-scene," moyen auquel a recours le dramaturge quand le monde imaginaire qu'il a cree ne peut etre depeint dans sa totalite sur scene a cause des contraintes temporo-spatiales du theatre. L'expression "vie hors-scene" comprend tous les aspects non-visuels du monde cree par l'auteur; c'est le prolongement intangible de ce qui est represente sur la scene. Le charactere de cette illusion est revele par l'analyse minutieuse des principales categories qui constituent la vie hors-scene. / La theorie dramatique developpee est ensuite appliquee a l'art dramatique de Tchekhov, en particulier a la Mouette. Ainsi, la these met en lumiere la nature de l'illusion de la vie hors-scene et son role au theatre, a la fois de facon theorique et appliquee, offrant une methodologie de base pour l'analyse de cette illusion cle dans les oeuvres d'autres dramaturges et enrichissant la perception critique du theatre.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007. / Document formatted into pages; contains v, 88 p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 17, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-12, Section: A, page: 4559. Adviser: Andrew Durkin.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-59). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-59). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (May 18, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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