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Restoration of Breath: Consciousness and Performance (review)

Restoration of Breath: Consciousness and Performance (review) Confucian happy ending). Min Tian explores various productions of Macbeth, King Lear, and Hamlet in Chinese and finds a similar cultural displacement, but places more stress on the displacement of language as Shakespeare demands a specific poetic delivery of lines. In his conclusion, Min Tian notes that his concept of displacement should not be viewed in negative terms. Rather, he hoped to showcase the displacement from both Western theatre artists attempting to utilize Chinese aesthetics and Chinese theatre artists hoping to do the same with Western performance. Overall, his work accomplishes this task and is an excellent exploration into the negotiations from both Chinese and Western theatre artists who are influenced by one another. Ronald Gilliam University of Hawai`i, Mänoa RESTORATION OF BREATH: CONSCIOUSNESS AND PERFORMANCE. Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts 9. By Sreenath Nair. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. Paper $60.00. The aspiration of this work--a detailed look at the concept and use of the breath in performance practice West and East--is breathtaking. The strength of the work is its clear discussion of breath in yogic texts and performance traditions of South India (Tamil Nadu and Kerala): a topic that dominates the second half of chapter 2 ("In Search http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

Restoration of Breath: Consciousness and Performance (review)

Foley, Kathy
Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 26 (2) – Feb 6, 2009
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Confucian happy ending). Min Tian explores various productions of Macbeth, King Lear, and Hamlet in Chinese and finds a similar cultural displacement, but places more stress on the displacement of language as Shakespeare demands a specific poetic delivery of lines. In his conclusion, Min Tian notes that his concept of displacement should not be viewed in negative terms. Rather, he hoped to showcase the displacement from both Western theatre artists attempting to utilize Chinese aesthetics and Chinese theatre artists hoping to do the same with Western performance. Overall, his work accomplishes this task and is an excellent exploration into the negotiations from both Chinese and Western theatre artists who are influenced by one another. Ronald Gilliam University of Hawai`i, Mänoa RESTORATION OF BREATH: CONSCIOUSNESS AND PERFORMANCE. Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts 9. By Sreenath Nair. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. Paper $60.00. The aspiration of this work--a detailed look at the concept and use of the breath in performance practice West and East--is breathtaking. The strength of the work is its clear discussion of breath in yogic texts and performance traditions of South India (Tamil Nadu and Kerala): a topic that dominates the second half of chapter 2 ("In Search

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