Stanislavsky's System as a guide to experiencing embodiment Part II: other models compared

摘要

This paper builds on that given at last year's AISB conference, Stanislavsky's mindful actor: the System as a guide to experiencing embodiment. It was then argued that despite the superficial problems of Stanislavsky's fictional training diaries, underlying the narrative lies a complex, sophisticated and robust conceptualization of embodied human experience in the form of a spatial adpositional model, consistent with the experiential realist view of Lakoff and Johnson [1]. Part II takes this proposition and builds on it, showing how this conceptual framework, that situates Stanislavsky's experiencing actor as embodied and present in the moment, has equally promising potential for exploration of embodiment in other acting practices.