The Viewpoints Book

Name: The Viewpoints Book
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A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

By Anne Bogart and Tina Landau

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The Viewpoints Book introduces the innovative Viewpoints technique, a method of improvisation originating from post-modern dance and adapted for actors by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau. This approach breaks down the theatrical elements of space and time into practical segments, offering performers a new language for spontaneous and intuitive stage expression. Combined with Composition, Viewpoints empowers actors to creatively engage with and understand their craft in dynamic new ways.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book is ideal for actors, directors, and theatre practitioners interested in contemporary performance techniques and improvisation methods.

The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the post-modern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the notions of space and time into practical segments. This book offers actors a primer in a different technique.

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The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the post-modern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the notions of space and time into practical segments. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau have expanded her ideas and adapted them for actors, allowing them to learn to function spontaneously and intuitively.

The Viewpoints, then, constitute a language for discussing what happens on stage. When coupled with Composition, which involves selecting and arranging the separate components of theatrical language, Viewpoints can offer performers an important new tool for creating and understanding their art form.

Like the Method before it, Viewpoints is the new gospel amongst American actors. And like the Method, it is already spreading to Britain. This book offers actors a primer in a revitalising new technique.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781559362412

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 August 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 382g

Pages: 240

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Anne Bogart Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Tina Landau

About the Author

Anne Bogart is Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director, Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. Her shows have twice won OBIES (Off-Broadway Tonies). She is an Associate Professor at Columbia University, New York. Tina Landau is a noted director and playwright. Her most successful original work, Floyd Collins (with composer Adam Guettel), won an OBIE and the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical She has been a member of Steppenwolf in Chicago since 1997.

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