Chapter 1: Theoretical Background
1.0 Chapter Introduction
1.1 Lived Experience: bodies and life
1.2 wild Being
1.3 Limitations of Ocular-Centric Metaphors
1.4 The Intertwining – The Chiasm
1.5 Limitations of Framing Creativity as a Mental Process
1.6 Artistic Creativity: A Corporeal Thematic
1.7 Chapter Summary
Chapter 2: Methodological Background
2.0 Chapter Introduction
2.1 Performance Research
2.2 Researching Performing Bodies
2.3 Performance Philosophy
2.4 Live Knowing
2.5 Wild Lifed
2.6 Chapter Summary
Chapter 3: An Experiential Methodology
3.0 Chapter Introduction
3.1 Attunement
3.2 First-Person Discovery Workshops
3.3 Sensory Metaphor
3.4 Attunement Practices
3.5 Reflective Practice
3.6 Chapter Summary
Chapter 4: Attuning to Visceral Phenomena
4.0 Chapter Introduction
4.1 wild Being and Artistic Creativity
4.2 Limitations of Conscious/Unconscious Beliefs about Creativity
4.3 Touch and Accessing Experience Differently
4.4 Central Movement and Accessing Experience Differently
4.5 Chapter Summary
Chapter 5: Focusing In-between
5.0 Chapter Introduction
5.1 The Crisscrossing
5.2 Intertwining and Artistic Creativity
5.3 Intertwining and the Möbius Loop
5.4 The Möbius loop in Performance
5.5 Chapter Summary
Chapter 6: Imagining Immersive Conditions
6.0 Chapter Introduction
6.1 The Real, Difference and Becoming
6.2 Becoming Whole-Bodied
6.3 Becoming Woman
6.4 Chapter Summary
Chapter 7: Performance Ontology of Becoming
7.0 Chapter Introduction
7.1 The Encounter
7.2 In Practice
7.3 In Performance
7.4 In Focusing
7.5 Chapter Summary
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