ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how ‘sensing’ is opened up as a mode of ‘living communication’ in and through that practice. A practitioner is gradually attuned to and moves toward an optimal, ideal, virtuosic level of attention, awareness, and deployment and channeling of energy necessary for that specific practice. Going through a pre-performative practice with a highly qualified and sensitive teacher, a performer can be introduced to the subtler nuances of a sensitized, ‘lived/living’ bodymind. Working with actors through the pre-performative training, the processes of awakening one’s energy, directing attention, opening sensory/full-bodied/tactile awareness, and activating images collectively manifest embodied consciousness being attuned or sensitized in a way directly applicable to acting. Each performance score is shaped by its structure, the dramaturgy, aesthetic style, performance environment, the actor’s specific performance score, as well as the assumptions about acting held by actors/director or developed during the rehearsal and performance period.
