The series is a meditation on performance.
The book is a meandering, quasi-academic meditation on performance art that is somehow breezy and juicy enough to bring to the beach.
"Yeast" is an exhilarating meditation on performance and identity; it deserves to be discussed along with Jacques Rivette's recent "Around a Small Mountain" (which is still in first run at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema).
While fans of his work may be disappointed to find they've already read half of the chapters in The New Yorker (where Gawande is a staff writer) or elsewhere, Gawande's meditation on performance is not only an absorbing collection of essays on how some doctors manage to do better but also an exhilarating call for the rest of us to do the same.
The specific aims are, 1) to determine the effectiveness of a mindfulness meditation program in increasing function and reducing pain among older adults with CLBP, and 2) to evaluate the impact of mindfulness meditation on neuropsychological performance in older adults with CLBP.
There's a strange energy lurking throughout this collection of poems, which over the course of 96 pages folds together bizarre but mindful meditations on disembodiment, performance, poison, reality TV, fatal accidents, agony, and negation.
The painting is as much tour de force performance as a meditation on the nature of performance and manipulation.
In January, "Brer Rabbit the Opera: A Funky Meditation on Gentrification," by the performance artist Aisha Cousins, the musician Greg Tate, and the band Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, was shown as a work-in-progress at Brooklyn's bric Arts.
In "Monk's Mood: A Performance Meditation on the Life and Music of Thelonious Monk, Mr. DeFrantzz, a tall, slender man with a head full of dreadlocks, aims to be a tap dancer and a storyteller.
At the French Institute in September he offered a surprise "survival guide to the audience," an insightful, thought-provoking meditation on the elements of live performance and what we bring to them, infused with funny, sometimes moving gestures and little dances.
Her book is in part a meditation on the impossibility of capturing a performance, or series of performances, that happened 80 years ago.
