The Alchemical Actor offers an imagination for new and future theatre inspired by the manifesto of Antonin Artaud. The alchemical four elements - earth, water, air and fire and the four alchemical stages - nigredo, albedo, citrino and rubedo serve as initiatory steps towards the performance of transmutational consciousness. The depth psychological work of Carl G. Jung, the theatre techniques of Michael Chekhov and Rudolf Steiner infuse 'this' Great Work. Jane Gilmer leads the reader through alchemical imaginations beyond material cognition towards gold-making heart-thinking - key to new and future theatre.
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 155 mm
Dicke: 21 mm
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978-90-04-44083-8 (9789004440838)
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Jane Gilmer, Ph.D. (2000), Murdoch University, Western Australia, works freelance specialising in training actors, and writing, including 'Michael Chekhov's Imagination of the Creative Word and the question of its integration into his future theatre' (Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 2013). Her current solo performance is Prospero's Tempest: A meditation in Action.
Acknowledgments??
Prologue: Imagining Alchemical Theatre??
Prelude: Performing the Great Work??
1???Artaud's Alchemical Theatre: Earth and the Nigredo??
?1?Double
?2?Cruelty
?3?Poetics
?4?Symbols
?5?Theatre Languages
?6?Myths
?7?Gnosticism
?8?Sacred Dramas of Eleusis
?9?Gesture i
?10?Actor and Director
2???Alchemical Imaginatio: Water and the Albedo??
?1?Prima Materia
?2?Philosopher's Stone
?3?Individuation
?4?Mysterium Conunctionis
?5?Four Elements
?6?Alchemical Stages
??6.1?Calcination??
??6.2?Dissolution??
??6.3?Separation??
??6.4?Coniunction??
??6.5?Fermentation??
??6.6?Distillation??
??6.7?Coagulation??
?7?Three Forces
??7.1?Salt??
??7.2?Sulphur??
??7.3?Mercury??
??8?Star Body
??9?Planets and Metals
3???Alchemical Actor: Air and the Citrino??
?1?Elemental Mandala
?2?Laboratory
?3?Artists of Fire
?4?Practice
?5?Gesture ii
?6?Alchemy is? Meditation
?7?Creative Imagination
?8?Dreams
?9?Consciousness
?10?Creative Word
?11?Mandala Stage
?12?Heart Thinking
?13?Initiation Drama
4??Alchemical Magnum Opus: Fire and the Rubedo??
?1?Prospero's Tempest
5???Dance of the Elements: Quintessence??
Epilogue: Performing the Great Work??
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The Emerald Tablet???
Bibliography??
Index??
