Jeungsook Yoo was recently Head of the World Performance course at East 15 Acting School (UK). She currently teaches at Korea National University of the Arts and Soongsil University (Korea). She holds a PhD from the University of Exeter (UK). She is co-founder with Sunhee Kim of Theatre P'yut (Seoul), and is an actress and director.

Chapter 1: Introduction - Toward Gained Nature in Artificiality

1. An Intercultural and Psychophysical Approach to Acting and Actor Training
2. Meditation and Acting as a Psychophysical 'Technique'
3. Tao, Te and Kungfu

Chapter 2: Dahnhak Meditation - Recovering Sensitivity Toward Mastery

1. Introduction to Dahnhak

Dahnhak

Ki in Dahnhak

Three Principles

Three Methods

Dahnhak Practice

2. Three Methods Practice

Chapter 3: The Bald Soprano - Forming an Active-Passive Relationship

1. Introduction
2. From Paper to Time and Space - The Nature of Acting

Acting - A Psychophysical Activity

Words - Psychophysical Vibration

3. Forming an Active-Passive Relationship to a Psychophysical Score

A Process of Creating a Score

Space as a Channel - Resonance

Integration

Chapter 4: The Water Station - Moving Ki in Inner and Outer Space

1. Introduction
2. A Starting Point of Acting - A Way of Appreciation
3. The 'Visible' and the 'Invisible'
4. A Design of Awareness and Ki - Moving Ki in Time and Space

Scene 1 GIRL

Scene 2 TWO MEN

Scene 3 WOMAN WITH A PRASOL

Scene 9 THE GIRL

5. Autonomy of the Ki-Flow

Chapter 5: Playing 'the Maids' - Tuning Emotional Ki

1. Introduction
2. The Korean Imagination - Han and Salpuri Dance

Salpuri Dance - Embodiment of Han

Han - The Aesthetics of Fermentation

3. Emotion as Ki

Emotion in the Context of Its Embodiment

Tunable Elements of Emotional Ki

4. Tuning the Characteristics of Emotional Ki

'I Can Not'

'Release of Han Dance (Salpuri) and Vocal Duet'

5. A Character's Emotion and an Actor's Emotion

Chapter 6: Conclusion - A Theory of Sympathy

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