The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

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The Viewpoints is a method of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It used to be first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers care for—space and time—into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau have expanded her notions and adapted them for actors to function together spontaneously and intuitively and to generate bold, theatrical work.

The Viewpoints are a set of names given to certain principles of movement through time and space—they constitute a language for talking about what happens on stage. Coupling this with Composition, which is the practice of selecting and arranging the separate components of theatrical language into a cohesive murals, provides theatre artists with a very powerful new tool for creating and understanding their art form.

Primarily intended for the many theatre artists who, in the last several years, have change into intrigued with Viewpoints yet have had no single source to refer to in their investigations. It may also be used by somebody with a general interest in collaboration and the creative process, whether in art, business or day-to-day life.

Anne Bogart is Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is the recipient of two OBIE Awards and a Bessie Award, and is an associate professor at Columbia University. Her latest works include Alice’s Adventures; Bobrauschenbergamerica; Small Lives, Big Dreams; Marathon Dancing; and The Baltimore Waltz.

Tina Landau, noted director and playwright, whose original work includes Space (Time magazine 10 Best), Dream True (with composer Ricky Ian Gordon) and Floyd Collins (with composer Adam Guettel), which received the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, an OBIE Award and seven Drama Desk nominations. She has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company since 1997.

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