The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition - Softcover

Bogart, Anne; Landau, Tina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559362413 ISBN 13: 9781559362412

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, 2004

Synopsis

The essential guide to the most talked about new acting technique since The Method.

Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the post-modern dance world, allowing actors to learn to function spontaneously and intuitively. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, whose ideas have been expanded and developed by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau, adapting them for the use of actors.

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Review:

An extremely good book that offers a lot to anyone seeking to create an exciting new unit for their drama curriculum or add more focus to rehearsals...Veterans and novices of the secondary school drama classroom need this book in their offices and its exercises smattered throughout their schemes of work. In higher education both tutors and their students will have every cause to welcome Bogart's and Landau's insights into the theoretical and practical workings of Viewpoints and Composition. --Drama Research

Synopsis:

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, so that they can learn to function spontaneously and intuitively. The Viewpoints, then, constitute a language for talking about 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 under-standing 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1559362413
• ISBN 13: 9781559362412
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240