The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with-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 ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Date Published: 2006-01-01
ISBN-13:9781559362412ISBN:1559362413
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781559362412ISBN:1559362413
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781559362412ISBN:1559362413
Description: New. The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with-space and time-into six categories. Since... read more
"Having worked with Anne Bogart and Mary Overlie at the Experimental Theater Wing at N.Y.U. it is wonderful to once more find the anchor of my training. As I read I can hear their voices. This is beautiful and groundbreaking stuff."
"A great intro to Viewpoints, mostly accessible to actors or other theatre artists, because it doesn't illustrate its activities. That being said, I've been partially doing Viewpoints for years and not really known it, so having a name for an exercise is always a bonus, and the freeing language of the authors allows for further thought on creative freedom and all the possibilities we can gift to each other as artists and as people. This book came to me at the right place for the right reason. Glad to have gone through it."
"I don't think this book will help you much if you've never done or seen any Viewpoints. Most people I've met who've tried to read it without any context have ended up lost and confused. But if you have any previous experience of them, then this is a great resource."
"Lots of good information. Sometimes directions don't make a lot of sense. I wish it had included pictures as well - it would help with imagining some of the exercises but still a great toolbox."
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