Trusting Performance: A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Drama

✍ Scribed by Naomi Rokotnitz (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 195
• Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An epistemological inquiry into the dynamics of interpersonal trust-relations, combining philosophy, science, and critical theory in the analysis of performing bodies - on stage and in life. Rokotnitz argues for the exploration of drama as a conduit to emotional learning that can change the somatic identity of performers and audiences alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-17
“It Is Required You Do Awake Your Faith”: Learning to Trust the Body through Performing The Winter’s Tale....Pages 19-36
“A Doubling of Immortality:” Cognitive Inter(con)textuality and Tom Stoppard’s Travesties....Pages 37-65
From Empathy to Sympathy: Staging Change and Conciliation in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good....Pages 67-96
“A Spiritual Dance:” Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations....Pages 97-128
Conclusion....Pages 129-132
Back Matter....Pages 133-188

✦ Subjects

Cognitive Psychology;Performing Arts;Theatre History;Theatre and Performance Studies;Psychiatry;Clinical Psychology