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Mise en Abyme, Vol. VIII, Issue 2. July-December 2021

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LAMP IN A WINDLESS PLACE

Developing an Actor Training Methodology through Sri Lankan Combative Art Angampora

ISBN: 979-12-80081-03-2

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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• Acknowledgements
  Saumya Liyanage / Lyudmyla Honcharova / Marlon Ariyasinghe - PDF

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​PART I – PAPERS

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• “Lamp in a Windless Place”:
  Developing an Actor Training Methodology
  through Sri Lankan Combative Art Form Angampora.
  An Introduction 
  Saumya Liyanage / Natasha Hillary / Samal Vimukthi Hemachandra - PDF

• “A Lamp in a Windless Place that Flickers not”:
  The Ontology of Presence and the Actors Lab in Sri Lanka
  Saumya Liyanage - PDF

• ‘Helé adunu Yoda Shakthiya Angampora’:
  Performing Angampora as Sinhala Buddhist Nationalist Spectacle
  Samal Vimukthi Hemachandra - PDF

• Angampora Martial Art:
  Revaluation of Bodymind in Sri Lankan and European Actor Training Traditions
  Lyudmyla Honcharova - PDF

• Angampora and Dance:
  Some Historical and Kinesthetic Connections
  Sudesh Mantillake - PDF

• Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance?
  Embodied Metaphors in Angampora
  Marlon Ariyasinghe - PDF

• An Actor Adapts:
  Understanding Acting through Digitalization and Psychophysical Training
  Bandhuka Premawardhana - PDF

• F(r)ight:
  Angampora as a Method to Fight Stage Fright
  Nipuni Sharada Pathirage - PDF

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PART II – ESSAYS

 

• Guru Karunāpāla, his Teaching and the AHEAD Actors Lab:
  A Brief Encounter
  Sachini Pramodya Athapaththu - PDF

• A Conversation with my Body
  Kanchana Malshani - PDF

• Actor’s Day at Angam Maduwa
  Thilakshini Rathnayake - PDF

• Angampora Challenges Gender Identities in Practice
  Hewagamage Chamanee Darshika - PDF