Inside The Performance Workshop by Rachel Bowditch, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

The Rasaboxes Sourcebook is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of increasingly popular performer training exercises known asrasaboxes. Rasaboxes is an interdisciplinary approach - originally devised by Richard Schechner - for training emotional awareness and expressivity through the use of breath, body, voice, gesture, movement, and sensation. It brings together:scientific research on emotion in neurobiology and neuroscience;contemporary performance studies;the theory ofrasafrom the Indian performance treatise, The Natyasastraother related performer training theories and practicesThe Rasaboxes Sourcebookincludes a new introduction by Schechner as well as his original essay on 'Rasaesthetics', and usefully combines both practical 'how-to' guidance and full and detailed contextualisation. | Inside The Performance Workshop by Rachel Bowditch, Paperback | Indigo Chapters