Trusting performance
Subtitle: a cognitive approach to embodiment in drama
By: Naomi Rokotnitz
Series: Cognitive studies in literature and performance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230337374
Subjects: Drama; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology; History and criticism; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft; Human body in literature; Psychological aspects; Performance; Characters and characteristics in literature; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
Description: "Argues for the exploration of drama as a conduit to deep emotional learning that has the ability to change the somatic identity of performers and audiences alike"--

"This exciting new work argues for the exploration of drama as a conduit to deep emotional learning that has the ability to change the somatic identity of performers and audiences alike. Rokotnitz suggests that the preference for reciprocity exhibited by human physiological systems also extends into psychological and cognitive processes. Modeling her epistemological inquiry upon the paradigms instantiated by our biological architecture, she argues that effective knowledge acquisition and interpersonal communication rely on the ability to learn from and to trust in our bodies. Focusing on four plays by William Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard, Timberlake Wertenbaker, and Moiseš Kaufman, each chapter of the book considers a different dramatic genre, historical period, philosophical context, and performance strategy, and traces in each the crucial and defining influence of bodily presence in establishing trust relations and moral accountability"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: "It Is Required You Do Awake Your Faith": Learning to Trust the Body through Performing The Winter's Tale; title: "A Doubling of Immortality": Cognitive Inter(con)textuality and Tom Stoppard's Travesties; title: From Empathy to Sympathy: Staging Change and Conciliation in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good; title: "A Spiritual Dance:" Moises Kaufman's 33 Variations.