'It Is Required You Do Awake Your Faith': Learning to Trust the Body through Performing The Winter's Tale
'A Doubling of Immortality': Cognitive Inter(con)textuality and Tom Stoppard's Travesties
From Empathy to Sympathy: Staging Change and Conciliation in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good
'A Spiritual Dance:' Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations

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.

Dr. Naomi Rokotnitz explores the intersections between literature, philosophy, and science, investigating the relations between knowledge acquisition, inter-personal communication, moral accountability and bodily modes of reception and perception. She teaches at Tel-Aviv University, Israel and can be reached at naomirokotnitz@gmail.com.