The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world.
She has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company since 1997..
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.
Her recent works include Alice\'s Adventures
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Small Lives, Big Dreams
Marathon Dancing ; and The Baltimore Waltz .
She is the recipient of two OBIE Awards and a Bessie Award, and is an associate professor at Columbia University.
Anne Bogart is Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992.
It can also be used by anyone with a general interest in collaboration and the creative process, whether in art, business or daily life.
Primarily intended for the many theatre artists who, in the last several years, have become intrigued with Viewpoints yet have had no single source to refer to in their investigations.
Coupling this with Composition, which is the practice of selecting and arranging the separate components of theatrical language into a cohesive work of art, provides theatre artists with an important new tool for creating and understanding their art form.
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.
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.
It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with--space and time--into six categories.
The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world
