The Metaphor of Circle: Stanislavski, Phenomenology of Roundness and High Yoga

Stanislavski’s Eastern influence and his persistent fascination with Yoga is an established area of research. Stanislavski has two major yogic influences in the System: Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga. The first is about training the body through postures, movements, stances and breathing exercises to make it active, relaxed and energetic. The second includes a range of exclusive practices on concentration and visualization that are an integral part of the actor’s creativity. However, in the current research, there is a clear lack of a comprehensive practical method that informs Stanislavski’s use of yogic practice in the System: what specific yogic exercises were used and what synergies were developed in the training? Scholars have, so far, only explored Stanislavski’s literary legacy of his encounter with yoga, identifying the Sanskrit terms appeared in his writings such as prana for breathing and the Indian anecdotes he used when answering the questions of his students. Focusing on the metaphor of the circle, the phenomenology of roundness and the Deleuzian notions of ‘the invisible forces of sensations’ and ‘the body becomes an event itself’, the present study, for the first time, offers useful insights into the fundamental principles of yoga and their methods of practice as a way of developing a new training to understand the significance of Stanislavski in the 21st century

AUTOMATED DATA SYSTEM FOR HELICOPTER STRUCTURAL FATIGUE TESTING

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / September 28-30, 1982 / Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, CaliforniaHelicopter structural fatigue testing requires the monitoring and precise control of physical input loads along with the collection and analysis of large quantities of static and dynamic data. This paper describes an automated, on-line system specifically designed to structurally test a full size helicopter airframe. Microprocessor controlled shakers apply dynamic loads to the test article and simulate a typical flight profile, e.g., take-off, climb, cruise, descent, hover and landing. A minicomputer based automated data system acquires up to 128 measurement channels consisting of outputs from accelerometers and strain gages with an overall data system throughput rate of 50,000 samples per second. The test engineer can select various operational and data processing formats from computer stored menus. Data tables in engineering units plus graphical displays of time histories or spectral information are also available. The system can be run in a variable data burst mode or in a continuous monitor mode.International Foundation for TelemeteringProceedings from the International Telemetering Conference are made available by the International Foundation for Telemetering and the University of Arizona Libraries. Visit http://www.telemetry.org/index.php/contact-us if you have questions about items in this collection